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In addition to tirelessly listing all-ages NYC shows for 7 years, bi-weekly, print-only newspaper Showpaper (which sadly just called it a day), commissioned a beautiful piece of artwork for their cover every single issue...

There's no doubt that NYC's DIY music scene is changing. Glasslands, Death by Audio, 285 Kent and other venues closed last year, and now Showpaper, the "FREE bi-weekly print-only publication which aims to list and promote all ages DIY shows in the NYC and tri-state area" that's been in print for years, is suspending publishing...

Arcade Fire completed the three-night Barclays Center run of their current tour last night (8/24). Like the first two, Dan Deacon and the reunited Unicorns opened, but this one was extra special because it also included an opening set from New York's legendary Television...

Real Estate at Treasure Island 2013 (more by Autumn Andel) Real Estate have been relatively quiet lately, though they do have a third album in the works, but they will play a last-minute NYC one-off happening on Saturday (12/7) at Baby's All Right with Chicago's Bare Mutants (who are touring), Free Time, and Turnip K...

Yo La Tengo @ Maxwell's, Hannukah 2012 (more by PSquared Photography) today in NYC * Lulu @ B.B. King's * Jack Grace @ Barbes * Yo La Tengo @ Town Hall * Saul Williams @ BAM Cafe * Bloodshot Bill @ Union Pool * Gilbert Gottfried @ Stage 72 * Chia's Dance Party @ Barbes * Keller Williams @ City Winery * Moist Paula Henderson @ The Stone * Thing-One, Big Girl @ Mercury Lounge * Janeane Garofalo @ Eastville Comedy Club * Indian Rebound, Carroll, Napoleon @ Big Snow * Jonathan Toubin, Gibby Haynes @ Brooklyn Bowl * US Girls, Amen Dunes, Slim Twig @ Death By Audio * Princely DJs, 12 x 12, Ram Emmanuel @ Glasslands * Yellow Dogs, Life Size Maps, Papertwin @ Glasslands * Empress Of, Softspot, Cigarette, Railings @ Silent Barn * Courier, Suite 709, Blind Man Leading @ Bowery Electric * Dynasty Electric, The Deep Pink, Lexelle @ Cameo Gallery * Maroon 5, Neon Trees, Owl City @ Madison Square Garden * The New Facility, Butcher Knives, The Academics @ Pianos * LODRO, Bueno, Night Visions, John Mizrachi @ Living Bread * Embalmer, The Von Frankensteins, Throdl @ Saint Vitus Bar * The Vicious Guns, Matthew Fox, Catfox @ Pete's Candy Store * The Nightwatchman (Tom Morello Acoustic) @ The Allen Room * Throw Vision, Vensaire, Half Waif, Celestial Shore @ Paper Box * The Maccabees, Reputante, Gambles @ Music Hall of Williamsburg * Science Police, Chandeli'ers, ILLS, Wealthy Assholes @ Cake Shop * The Pink Chardonnays, Ivory Fox, Little Motown @ Le Poisson Rouge * Soul Asylum, Miles Nielson and The Rusted Hearts @ Bowery Ballroom * Ken Stringfellow (of R...

Todd P has been keeping busy. Among other things he has announced:AN AS-YET-TO-BE-NAMED "NEW MUSIC" PERFORMANCE SPACE + BAR IN THE BUSHWICK AREA I have a new lease on a familiar space off the L train, with legal certificate-of-occupancy and other paperwork baked into the deal, at no cost to the space...

Yeah Yeah Yeahs at Monster Island (more by Leia Jospe)Monster Island, Williamsburg's landmark center for the arts home to, Live With Animals, Secret Project Robot Art Space, Kayrock Screenprinting, Todd P...

"The Silent Barn is an immersion into the art of New York City as it lives. It's a double-floor music venue inside of a kitchen, an independent video games arcade, an art theater & performance space, a party surveillance system, a zine library, a museum of gigantic murals, and a home for Castle Oscar...

The show is a broad hybrid of things, over 20 acts of stand-up, skits, music, and a very broad "other." A sampling: Kizer, playing the archetypal patient, but being asked to peer into his doctor's very, very exposed asshole...

THE SHOWPAPER 42ND ST GALLERY (which opened in October) is located at 217 East 42nd St @ 3rd Ave in Midtown, Manhattan - out of Todd P's normal territory, but Todd P-affiliated nonetheless...