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tonight in NYC * Whiplash @ UCB * Datus @ Pianos * Chicha Libre @ Barbes * Zola Jesus @ Other Music * Jim Campilongo @ the Living Room * grids, white suns, pollution @ Death by Audio * Sir Richard Bishop @ Zebulon * Natalie Merchant @ The Wellmont Theater * Femi Kuti and the Positive Force @ Damrosch Park * Iron Maiden, Dream Theater @ Madison Square Garden * Lucy Wainwright Roche, Rich Bennett, Dan Shuman @ Union Hall * Follower, Light Asylum, Asa Ransom, These Are Powers @ The Cameo * David Karsten Daniels, Fight the Big Bull, The Lisps @ (le) Poisson Rouge * George Clinton & Parliament/Funkadelic, The Ohio Players @ Wingate Field * Blind Boys of Alabama w/ Yo La Tengo, Jim James, Lambchop, more @ Lincoln Center * Les Bicyclettes Blanches, MINKS, Blissed Out, The Beach Arabs @ Knitting Factory Brooklyn Half-sun Manhattanhenge tonight…

DOWNLOAD: Baby Birds Don’t Drink Milk – I’m Not a Nintendo (MP3) DOWNLOAD: Bandit Teeth – Encouragement (MP3) DOWNLOAD: Wetdog – Lower Leg (MP3) DOWNLOAD: The Rondelles – Please Shut Up (MP3) Doing anything besides swimming or laying in front of a powerful A/C unit hasn’t been appealing this week, let alone going into some club or DIY venue with poor ventilation, but temperatures are dropping and there are a lot of fun things to do this weekend, so it’s time to buck up, camper, and go see some rock…

The Feelies on 4th of July (more by Jason Bergman) If you’re not skipping town for an ocean view, there is no shortage of great music options this weekend…

a day by day Week in Indie-like guide to this week’s Northside Festival… Northside HQ (freedubya) When I was looking at the full Friday Northside Festival schedule, I was a bit overwhelmed by the embarrassment of riches available to indie rock fans tonight…

Wild Nothing @ Governors Island Saturday night (more by Andrew St Clair) Wild Nothing and the Morning Benders shared a bill at Governors Island Saturday night…

DOWNLOAD: Eddy Current Suppression Ring – Anxiety (MP3) DOWNLOAD: The Goodnight Loving – The Pan (MP3) DOWNLOAD: The Goodnight Loving – Nothing Conquers Us (MP3) DOWNLOAD: Disappears – Gone Completely (MP3) DOWNLOAD: Woven Bones – Guess You Already Knew (MP3) DOWNLOAD: Woven Bones – Your Way With My Life (MP3) DOWNLOAD: Ponys – Check the Door (MP3) I haven’t been this excited about a weekend of music in a long time…

The Middle East @ SXSW 2010 (more by Tim Griffin) tonight in NYC * Whiplash @ UCB * Antibalas @ Webster Hall * Weasel Walter, Vialka, CSC Funk Band @ Zebulon * Nas, Damian “Jr Gong” Marley @ Highline Ballroom * Reverend Vince Anderson & His Love Choir @ Union Pool * Leslie & The Badgers, Ferraby Lionheart @ Mercury Lounge * Mumford & Sons, The Middle East @ Music Hall of Williamsburg * 45 Grave, the Dead Sextons, Psychocharger & the Arkhams @ Europa * Doppelganger, Tiberius, New Moods, Patrick Holmes/Ryan Sawyer Duo @ Cake Shop * Daniel Pujol, McDonalds, Wild Harem, Knight School, Joey Wyoming @ DBA * Philip Seymour Hoffman, Second Floor Stories, The City And Horses, Sexy Neighbors @ Knitting Factory Tonight’s Whiplash show @ UCB features comedy by Pete Holmes (Ugly Americans, Late Night with Jimmy Fallon), Baron Vaughn (Comedy Central), Rory Scovel (Comedy Central), Hari Kondabolu (John Oliver’s New York Stand-Up Show), and Sandra Bauleo…

DOWNLOAD: Beaters – Fishage (MP3) DOWNLOAD: Nodzzz – True to Life (MP3) DOWNLOAD: Dom – Jesus (MP3) DOWNLOAD: Golden Girls – Newports (MP3) The Soft Pack @ Cake shop in Feb (more by Gabi Porter) The Soft Pack are here again, the first real shows in town they’ve played since releasing their debut album on Kemado: tonight (3/31) at Maxwell’s, tomorrow (4/1) at Mercury Lounge, and Saturday (4/3) at Music Hall of Williamsburg…