The Octagon

DOWNLOAD: Braids - Lemonade (MP3) DOWNLOAD: No Joy - No Joy (MP3) DOWNLOAD: Psychobuildings - Birds of Prey (MP3) DOWNLOAD: North Highlands - Sugar Lips (MP3) DOWNLOAD: The Besnard Lakes - Albatross (MP3) DOWNLOAD: Land of Talk - May You Never (MP3) DOWNLOAD: Cheap Time - Woodland Drive (MP3) DOWNLOAD: Bad Sports -On Video (MP3) Owen Pallett playing w/ the Luyas @ Webster Hall (more by Sarahana) It's Memorial Day Weekend which used to mean, if you stayed in town, there was nothing to do except go see whatever piece of crap Hollywood was foisting upon us, hang out at backyard BBQs (not a bad thing at all), and enjoy a relatively emptied-out city...

Atlas Sound @ ATP NY 2009 (more by Ryan Muir) tonight in NYC * Aziz Ansari @ Comix * Mick Barr @ The Stone * Dinosaur Feathers @ Fort Useless * Sarah Silverman @ Apple Store Soho * Motion City Soundtrack @ Irving Plaza * Big Teriffic w/ Max Silvestri @ The Cameo * Ladysmith Black Mambazo @ Highline Ballroom * Atlas Sound, Memory Tapes @ The Bell House * Those Darlins, Pine Hill Haints @ Maxwell's * The Constellations, Brian Bonz @ Brooklyn Bowl * Weasel Walter & BJ Rubin Variety Show @ Death By Audio * Midnight Masses, Borrowed Eyes, Submarine Bells @ Union Pool * Miniboone, Pet Ghost Project, I'm Turning Into, Shark...

DOWNLOAD: The Octagon - Suicide Kings (MP3) I wrote at length already about this week's Serena Maneesh shows. Now here are some other daily picks to take you through the weekend...

Real Estate and Neon Indian played a kids- and guardians-only show at The Living Room on October 25th, one day after CMJ. The pictures here are from that (including ones of hosts Seth Herzog and Carlos Jordan)...

DOWNLOAD: Carsick Cars - You Can Listen You Can Talk (MP3) DOWNLOAD: Carsick Cars - Zhong Nan Hai (MP3) DOWNLOAD: PK-14 - Behind All Ruptures (MP3) Arriving late I found the place packed, but I was just able to set up in time to get Xiao He's last tune...

Arrow Bar, 85 Avenue A (basement), betw 5 & 6 I found this out last night...First-time bar owner Zachary Waldman, a talent booker at Lower East Side nightspot Pianos, tries his luck at the booze biz in the space that briefly housed the Rook...