Metermaids

) You can browse our full NYC show calendar for all of tonight's shows, but here are some highlights... Cursive, Beach Slang, John Congleton and the Nighty Nite @ Saint Vitus Cursive are currently celebrating their great cello-filled 2003 album, The Ugly Organ, on this tour (with the album's cellist, Gretta Cohn), and one of 2014's best new punk bands Beach Slang is supporting...

Lower at Chaos In Tejas 2013 (more by Sarah Frankie Linder) You can browse our full NYC show calendar for all of tonight's shows, but here are some highlights...

Providence, RI rapper Sage Francis is putting the finishes touches on his new studio album, which will be his first since 2010's Li(f)e. But he's not waiting for that to be done to play a few shows, including one in NYC at Knitting Factory on May 24...

DOWNLOAD: The Very Best - Warm Heart of Africa (Violens remix) (MP3) Ted Leo @ Pier 54 in July (more by Chris La Putt) Ted Leo is one of many the acts lined up for the space at 107 Suffolk St (alternately called The Suffolk, Flamboyán Theater and Clemente Soto Vélez Cultural Center) during this year's CMJ Festival...

DOWNLOAD: The Metermaids - Nightlife in Illinoise Mixtape (Zipped MP3s) DOWNLOAD: Hezekiah - Cure For THe Common $oul Mixtape (ZShare Link) Styles P and Black Thought (The Roots) @ BHHF (more here) Though daily tickets are now sold out, you can still buy tickets for both nights of The Rock The Block Fest going down at Southpaw on August 6th & 7th...