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What's Going on Thursday?

Thursday’s NYC-area shows include Father John Misty, Fuzz, Hulder, Tim Heidecker, Colleen Green, and more.

What's going on Sunday?

Afropunk Fest, Drake’s ”day party,” Belly, Thursday, Vetiver/Espers, Busdriver, Black Tusk, Guerilla Toss and more Sunday show options.

Stern releasing 'Missive: Sister Ships,' playing shows (stream a track)

Lyrically, Chuck Stern says the album is about ”exile and abandonment… It is a story about certain people in my life moving on without me: the death of my father, a terrible breakup with a girlfriend, Obama’s departure.”

What's going on Sunday?

NYC-area show options tonight include Elvis Costello, ‘Jam the Vote,’ Jens Lekman, Damien Jurado, AJJ, the final night of the NY Comedy Fest, and more.

Dalek playing shows, including NYC with The Austerity Program, Action Beat, more

Back-in-action industrial rap group Dalek just played Saint Vitus for a heavy-oriented Northside showcase. Now that that’s behind them, they’ve already scheduled another upcoming NYC show…

Primitive Man have a bunch of new releases (listen), touring

Denver sludge/metal/punk/etc bashers Primitive Man have been pretty prolific this year. They already put out the Home Is Where The Hatred Is EP on Relapse in February, they have a split LP with Northless on the way via Halo of Flies (trailer below), and this week they dropped a new free single, “Fu…

What's going on Friday? (This Will Destroy You, Dodos, Sleater-Kinney, Radical Dads, Museum of Love & more)

You can browse our full NYC show calendar for all of tonight’s shows, but here are some highlights… This Will Destroy You, Sannhet, Planning For Burial @ Saint Vitus Epic post-rockers This Will Destroy You conclude their BrooklynVegan-presented two-night stand at Saint Vitus tonight…