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Saturday’s NYC-area shows include AVAIL, Brandi Carlile, The Bronx & The Chats, Bret McKenzie, black midi, The Comet is Coming, Quicksand, illuminati hotties, and more.

Sunday’s NYC-area shows include Green Day, Rosalía, Meshuggah, William Basinski, Henry Rollins, a remembrance for Jaimie Branch, and more.

Sunday show options include Beach House, L’Rain, Tough Shits, “Wall to Wall Coltrane,” Charles Bissell, and more.

AC/DC founding member Malcolm Young tragically passed away last month, and for those looking to honor his memory and music whilst rocking out, there’s an “all star tribute” to AC/DC happening at Brooklyn Bowl on January 4…

“So with an eye towards the ideal politics of the hopefully-not-distant future (i.e. as a compromise), this is an instrumental version of the song I happen to be working on right now, it’s the last one still under construction and yes, that means the album is only finishing now.” – Charles Bissell

We keep getting more and more hints that The Wrens‘ long-awaited followup to 2003’s The Meadowlands is coming. Last year they said it was complete, more recently they signed a record deal, and then posted the above picture which is, apparently, a CD-R with the final recordings of the al…

Tonight is thick with bands on their way to SXSW. A lot of good options! You can browse our full NYC show calendar for all of tonight’s shows, but here are some highlights…

We recently attended the PS 154 benefit at the Bell House where two singing members of The Wrens were gloriously back on stage together again after a rocking set…

The Wrens at Maxwell’s in 2009 (more by Anna Scialli) A number of local indie musicians will be teaming up to play a benefit for Windsor Terrace’s PS154 at Brooklyn’s Bell House on May 30…

There are so many good shows happening tomorrow (2/16) this column could be renamed This Thursday in Indie. But I won’t because that would be dumb…