Tonight's NYC-area shows include Slayer, Vio-lence, William Basinski, Devon Welsh, The World Is A Beautiful Place, Talib Kweli, Toro y Moi, Ariana Grande, and more.
Plus, Fest 18 also includes Less Than Jake, Mariachi El Bronx, Off With Their Heads, AJJ, Screaming Females, Planes Mistaken For Stars, Tim Barry, and even more.
Daniel Rossen in Austin earlier this month (more by Tim Griffin)
You can browse our full NYC show calendar for all of tonight's shows, but here are some highlights...
As mentioned, Sharon Van Etten's new album, Are We There, will be out in May via Jagjaguwar. While we haven't gotten a full song yet, you can hear a good bit of one song via a teaser trailer for the album which shows Sharon and her band making the record...
Tickets for the Fiona Apple & Blake Millsshow at Beacon Theatre go on presale today at 10 AM (password: "fireworks").
Martin Rev (of NYC synthpunk legends Suicide) played his first NYC show in five years last month, and he'll be playing another one on October 9 at Glasslands...
Sax wizard Colin Stetson is working on his new solo album which will be out at some point in 2013, but before that you'll get a chance to see him at an intimate NYC show with many guests at Zebulon on December 6...
Thurston & John on stage w/ Sharon Van Etten in Nov. (more by Chris La Putt)
Thurston Moore and his Chelsea Light Moving bandmate John Moloney, who released the collaborative Caught On Tape earlier this year, are teaming up for a NYC show at Union Pool on December 11 with Speedy Ortiz and Lone Wolf (aka Ryan Sawyer, who also appears at Union Pool a few days earlier with Yeah Yeah Yeahs for a Sandy benefit)...