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Fred Armisen, Bill Hader & Jason Sudekis bid SNL farewell w/ help from J. Mascis, Carrie Brownstein, Amy Poehler + more

by Bill Pearis

Fred Armisen & friends / Stefon & Seth / Kanye & Ben on SNL

Even without Kanye's musical appearance, last night's Ben Afleck hosted Saturday Night Live season finale was especially eventful (and teary) as it was the final show for three long-running star players: Bill Hader, Fred Armisen and Jason Sudekis.

Fred got his farewell moment via a sketch featuring his punk character Ian Rubbish who performed song called "It's Gonna Be a Lovely Day." His band featured fellow departing castmembers Hader and Sudekis (and Taran Killam, sure to be a big player next season), and then he welcomed a cavalcade of musical talent onstage, including his Portlandia costar Carrie Brownstein, Sonic Youth's Kim Gordon, Dinosaur Jr.'s J Mascis, Aimee Mann, Michael Penn, and the Sex Pistols' Steve Jones. With a chorus of "It's been alright, I've had a lovely night," it was a nice little sendoff. Video of that is below.

Hader got his sendoff moment, as expected, as Weekend Update nightlife correstondent Stefon, where anchor -- and soon to be Late Night host -- Seth Meyers finally gives in to his advances. "Weekend Update" also featured a surprise appearance by former co-anchor Amy Poehler who came out for "REALLY??" and stuck around to read the news. Seth, who is also SNL's head writer, will leave midseason next year to take over for Jimmy Fallon who is moving up to The Tonight Show.

Hader, Armisen, Sudekis and Meyers' departure leaves a giant comedy hole for next season. It will be interesting to see how Lorne Michaels fills it.

Videos below...

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house music legend Romanthony, RIP

Romanthony, an influential house producer and singer best known for performing the vocals on Daft Punk's single "One More Time," has been reported to have died earlier this month.
The artist, born Anthony Moore, reportedly passed away at his home in Austin, Tex. on May 7. As Chicago's 5 Magazine points out, Romanthony's sister Mellony Moore confirmed the passing in a Facebook post on May 9, and friend/collaborators like Boys Noize, MikeQ and Daone Remmidy (better known as Eve Angel) have all taken to social media to confirm the news and express their grief. The cause of death has not yet been confirmed. - [Billboard]

Romanthony lives on in his music. Rest in peace.

A few streams and videos are below...

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Yahoo might be buying Tumblr

"Yahoo's board of directors has approved a $1.1-billion cash acquisition of blogging site Tumblr. A deal could be announced as soon as Monday, the Wall Street Journal reported Sunday." [LA Times]

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Kanye West played new songs from 'Yeezus' on 'SNL,' projected new video on buildings Friday

Kanye on 'SNL'

Kanye West has had a busy weekend. On Thursday (5/16), he played a private show at Roseland for Adult Swim where he performed a few new songs. He also, as is his wont, let loose one of his stream-of-conscious rants, this time mostly about celebrity culture. You can watch video of that below.

One of the songs Kanye performed at Roseland was new track "New Slaves." A video for that song made its debut on Friday night (5/17), projected at, according to maps on Kanye's website, 66 locations around the world. Nine of them were in NYC, including two in Williamsburg: one being outside the Bedford Ave L stop, and the second on the Wythe Hotel, and there's video of the former below.

The song, which features a sample of 1969 single "Gyöngyhajú lány" by Hungarian rock band Omega and vocals from Frank Ocean, will feature on Kanye's follow-up to 2010's My Dark Twisted Fantasy which is, according to Pitchfork, titled Yeezus and has appearances from Daft Punk, Skrillex and more.

This activity was all centered around Kanye's appearance on Saturday Night Live's season finale hosted by Ben Afleck. (The teaser videos are below.) He performed "New Slaves" and debuted another new song, "Black Skinhead," and video of those, along with the other clips mentioned in this post, are below.

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What's going on Sunday?

Liars @ Webster Hall, June 2012 (more by Bryan Bruchman)

JEFF the Brotherhood @ Coachella 2013 (more by Dana [Distortion] Yavin)

today in NYC
* Leni Stern @ Barbes
* Chris Liebing @ Output
* Stephane Wrembel @ Barbes
* Arias & Austin @ Joe's Pub
* Secret Chiefs 3 @ Union Pool
* My Midnight Heart @ Ace Hotel
* Liars, Doldrums @ Le Poisson Rouge
* Nicos Gun, Cookies, Talkfine @ Cameo Gallery
* Angel Olsen, Magmana, Steve Gunn @ Glasslands
* Uri Gurvich and BabEL, Lionel Loueke @ The Stone
* Local Empire, Janeane Garofalo, Dan Wilbur @ Pianos
* Iron and Wine, Secret Sisters @ The Capitol Theatre
* Blunt Fangs, Cities Aviv, Sadaf H. Nava @ Silent Barn
* The Killers, Tegan and Sara @ Susquehanna Bank Center
* Japanther, Broken Water, Extra Feeler @ Death By Audio
* Shark?, Woolen Men, Lame Drivers, Hippy @ Shea Stadium
* JEFF The Brotherhood, Hunters, Las Rosas @ Mercury Lounge
* The Milk Carton Kids, The Barefoot Movement @ Bowery Ballroom
* Dead Confederate, Roadkill, Ghost Choir, Ola Podrida @ Maxwell's
* Wilder Maker, Nathan Reich, Jordan Tarrant @ Rockwood Music Hall
* Judge, Madball, Crown of Thornz, Strength Approach @ Webster Hall
* Pagan Rituals, Shilpa Ray, Awkward Girls, Spires, Toons @ Big Snow
* Gorod, Vale ofr Pnath, Inanimate Existence, Cognitive @ Saint Vitus
* Anti-Flag, This is Hell, Luther, Worship This @ Studio at Webster Hall
* Eamon Harkin, Justin Carter, Francis Englehardt, Paul Nickerson @ Secret Location
* Philip Glass, Bryce Dessner, Real Estate, Sondre Lerche @ Music Hall of Williamsburg
* CJ Ramone, The Independents, Ingrid & The Defectors, HEAP, George Tabb, Andy Shernoff, Sic F*cks @ Bowery Electric
* "Refresh Refresh Refresh" w/ Kitty Pryde, Bennett Madison, Hermione Hoby, Josh Duboff, Lizzie Widdicombe @ Cake Shop
* ~~GoogaMooga w/ De La Soul, Cults, The Soul Rebels, Delicate Steve, M.A.K.U. Soundsystem, Kool & The Gang, The Hot Sardines, Marcelle Davies Lashley @ Prospect Park~~

Though GoogaMooga just got rained out, if you wanna go out in rainy Park Slope today, the annual 5th Avenue Street Fair is still happening.

Kitty Pryde is one of the featured guests at "Refresh Refresh Refresh," which is "a night of storytelling and music" that's happening at Cake Shop tonight. $3 and starts at 8 PM.

If you're staying in, Sigur Ros are on tonight's Simpsons. Poster for that is below.

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Young Galaxy recently released a video for "Fall For You" from this year's underrated Ultramarine. You can watch that below.

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GoogaMooga Sunday CANCELLED due to rain

people waiting to get in Sunday morning (via)

They really thought they were going to open today. They even announced that more tickets were being released today and that James Murphy, following in Sharon Jones's footsteps, had cancelled his performance today due to a family emergency. But the rain has won, and the second day of the 2nd GoogaMooga is now officially CANCELLED. The people pictured above waiting to get in today are probably especially upset.

Official reason: "NYC Parks Dept, Prospect Park Alliance & #Googamooga have canceled today's event in the interest of safety & prevention of damage to park."

All Sunday VIP ticket purchases will be refunded in full.

Bands and DJS that were supposed to play today included Delicate Steve, Cults, De La Soul, Kool & the Gang (instead of Sharon Jones), Nancy Whang & Pat Mahoney (instead of James Murphy), and M.A.K.U. Sound System.

Stay tuned for our pictures from Friday and Saturday, coming soon. Meanwhile watch a channel 12 video report that was filmed in the park early Saturday (it claims GoogaMooga will be back "bigger and better in 2014"), and a video of the Flaming Lips playing "You Lust" on Friday (you can hear people screaming "Vaseline, Vaseline!"), below...

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What's going on Saturday?

Turbonegro at House of Vans, Aug 2012 (more by Fred Pessaro // BBG)

Father John Misty at Coachella 2013 weekend 1 (more by Dana (distortion) Yavin)

today in NYC
* Liars @ The Met
* Rusted Root @ B.B. King's
* Secret Chiefs 3 @ Union Pool
* The Feelies @ The Bell House
* Les Chauds Lapins @ Barbes
* Tom Jones @ Bowery Ballroom
* Bo Burnham @ Best Buy Theatre
* Mr. Brownstone @ Brooklyn Bowl
* Smokey's Secret Family @ Barbes
* Juan Atkins, Contakt @ Cameo Gallery
* Turbonegro, Dirty Fences @ Irving Plaza
* Doldrums, Rioux, Cruz @ Ran Tea House
* The Killers, The Virgins @ Barclays Center
* Bad Veins, Born Cages @ Mercury Lounge
* All Get Out, NGHBRS @ Santos Party House
* Ola Podrida, Brass Bed, Medals @ Cake Shop
* Lewis Black @ Bergen Performing Arts Center
* Allies, Friends & Farmers, Bloom @ Don Pedro
* Uri Gurvich and BabEL, Brahim Fribgane @ The Stone
* Evian Christ, Gorgeous Children, Ian Isiah @ 285 Kent
* Narwhalz of Sound, Cammissa Buerhaus @ Market Hotel
* VietNam, Andy Animal Band, Country Mice @ Glasslands
* Midnight Magic, Slow Knights @ Music Hall of Williamsburg
* Scott Tournet, Ver La Vuz, Rayland Baxter @ Brooklyn Bowl
* Zula, DRGN King, Hannibal Montana, North End @ Big Snow
* Nautiluss, James Friedman, Paul Raffaele @ Cameo Gallery
* Vandana Jain, Teen Commandments, YYZ @ Cameo Gallery
* JEFF The Brotherhood, Hunters, Shellshag @ Mercury Lounge
* Pagan Rituals, Altered Boys, Foster Care, Paranoias @ Acheron
* Josh Ritter and the Royal City Band, The Felice Brothers @ Terminal 5
* Sam Marine and the County, The Zachary Cale Band @ Saint Vitus Bar
* Electric Frankenstein, Copstabber, DJ Jazz Bronson @ Bowery Electric
* Arrington de Dionyso's Malaikat dan Singa, Dean Cercone @ Silent Barn
* Calvin Harris, Afrojack, Porter Robinson, Carl Cox, Loco Dice @ Citi Field
* Oceanographer, Jangula, Mount Sharp, Nervous Breakdowns @ Matchless
* Jane Eyre, Unicycle Loves You, Steel Phantoms, Dull Edges @ Muchmore's
* Penguin Prison (DJ Set), American Royalty (DJ Set), Flying Horse @ Glasslands
* Beaty Heart, Bridges and Powerlines, Junior Prom, Foley Stewart, Skrimshaw @ Pianos
* King Charles the Martyr, Plates of Cakes, Samuel Cooper (of Sunglasses) @ The Rock Shop
* Love as Laughter, Starlight Girls, Birthdays, The Feverbreakers, Honduras @ Shea Stadium
* Coma Cinema, Foxes In Fiction, Julia Brown, RL Kelly, HAPPY TRENDY, Alex G @ Living Bread
* Anti-Flag, Hostage Calm, Code Orange Kids, Worlds Scariest Police Chases @ Studio at Webster Hall
* Soundgarden, Alice in Chains, Cheap Trick, Buckcherry, Kid Felix, Device @ Susquehanna Bank Center
* Judge, Breakdown, Bane, Black Train, Strife, District 9, Take Offense, Altercation, The Old Firm Casuals, Fire & Ice, Arrabio, Downpresser @ Webster Hall
* Great GoogaMooga w/ Matt & Kim, Father John Misty, Jovanotti, Sharon Van Etten, Lee Fields & The Expressions, Red Baraat, Pearl & The Beard, Jonathan Batiste, Banda De Los Muertos, Lady Rizo @ Prospect Park

Hardcore legends Judge reuinite tonight as part of the sold-out Black N Blue Bowl at Webster Hall.

It's day two of the food-booze-and-music fest Great GoogaMooga. Will they have fingured out a better system for food lines this year? Today's music line-up includes Matt and Kim, Father John Misty, Lee Fields & the Expressions, Sharon Van Etten and more.

Market Hotel is selling some of their old stuff to make way for new stuff today.

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No Joy played Glasslands with Weekend who are playing Northside (pics, dates)

photos by Bryan Bruchman / BTRtv; words by Bill Pearis

No Joy / Weekend @ Glasslands, 5/17/2013

No Joy's tour swung through NYC this week, with two shows for the Montreal shoegazers, first at Mercury Lounge (5/15) and then at Glasslands last night (5/17). The band's new album, Wait to Pleasure, is very much a studio creation, with producer Jorge Elbrecht of Violens buffing some of their more jagged edges in favor of more a lush sound that would've been right at home on 4AD Records in 1988. It's a terrific record, but I was happy to see no laptops or headphones at their show last night. While still in possession of honeyed vocals from Jasamine White-Gluz (using a harmonizer to great effect), songs like "Hare Tarot Lies" took on more pummeling form. This was especially true of show-closer "E" (which is opens their album) that is kind of their "You Made Me Realize," disintegrating into pure noise.

For fans of goth-leaning shoegaze, this was a great show as support came from Weekend who moved from San Francisco to Brooklyn last year, and even more recently adding a fourth member, Nick Ray, to the band. With Ray on bass, singer Shaun Durkan now plays second guitar. One might expect that to result in an even greater din, but last night's show was a bit turned-down, volume-wise, for the band. (It was still plenty loud.) Which maybe suited the set, which was made up almost entirely of Weekend's forthcoming album, Jinx, that trades white noise for liquid basslines, dark dance grooves and much hookier songs. The new direction suits them well and if you haven't heard first single "Mirror" you can stream it below.

Weekend's next show will be during the Northside Festival where they'll play Knitting Factory on June 15. Tickets for that show just went on sale today. They've got a few shows in California in July, too, and all dates are listed below.

I missed openers Grand Resort, but they have a few shows coming up including tonight (5/17) at Big Snow Buffalo Lodge where they'll play with Minneapolis' great BNLX. Those dates, along with more photos of No Joy and Weekend, are below.

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NYC this weekend: NYC Record Show, 5th Ave Street Fair, Market Hotel sale & GoogaMooga

How will you be spending the daylight hours in NYC this weekend? Here's four ways to consider, two which we haven't mentioned yet...

1) GoogaMooga - Friday through Sunday (The Darkness just went on)

2) NEW YORK CITY CD & RECORD COLLECTORS EXPO @ 57th Street Holiday Inn Saturday

3) Market Hotel tag sale Saturday

4) 5th Avenue Street Fair in Park Slope Sunday

What else?

And here's what else is going on Friday.

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It's 4:45 & The Darkness have taken the stage #GoogaMooga

The Darkness in The Daylight @ GoogaMooga 2013 (via Ana Bollocks)

GoogaMooga 2013 is now officially underway. Flaming Lips on at 6:15pm, also in the light (followed by the Yeah Yeah Yeahs).

Check out pictures from the Lips' dark show in NJ last night.

Saturday afternoon brings Sharon Van Etten, Father John Misty and more to Googa, and Sunday has De La Soul, James Murphy and Kool & the Gang but not Sharon Jones & the Dap Kings.

If you're missing the Darkness today in Brooklyn, they also have shows coming up this month in Albany, Montreal and Philly. Check out their list of tour dates with a short Vine clip from GoogaMooga below...

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Evillive (Raspberry Bulbs, Shadow of the Destroyer ++ more)

by Fred Pessaro

Raspberry Bulbs at Saint Vitus in January (more by Fred Pessaro)

Brooklyn's Raspberry Bulbs, who perfectly stitch together raw punk and black metal influences, have announced a new LP, Deformed Worship. Look for that record to land in July via Blackest Ever Black, and you can stream the new track "Groping The Angel's Face" below. As mentioned, Raspberry Bulbs play 285 Kent on May 23 with Total Control.

Shadow of the Destroyer, who are preparing to release their new self-titled LP via Inherent Records, will hit NYC with guests Anicon and Belus at The Acheron on May 31. Stream two tracks from the LP below. Recommended!

As usual, we are grinding away at InvisibleOranges and preparing for Maryland Deathfest 2013! Head over to the site for a stream of the new Tribulation and the Arabrot / Rabbits split, interviews with Eight Bells and Witch Mountain, an amazing piece on African Metal, a review of the new Grime and more!

Make sure to tune in to InvisibleOranges on East Village Radio every Tuesday at 10PM ET. Check out what we played last week and stream an archived copy of the show!

All Evillive-approved shows for the next two weeks, plus that new Raspberry Bulbs jam, are below.

What did I miss?

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Zebra Katz touring Europe, releases mixtape (listen!)

Zebra Katz @ BV-SXSW 2013 (more by Amanda Hatfield)

Zebra fucking Katz, about to spend some serious time in Europe, dropped a mixtape yesterday and you should stream that bitch. With dates below...

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What's going on Friday?

The Darkness @ Stubb's, May 2012 (more by Tim Griffin)

!!! aboard the SS Coachella, December 2012 (more by Greg Cristman)

today in NYC
* Trio Babel @ The Stone
* The Stepfathers @ UCB
* Shelia E. @ B.B. King's
* Howard Fishman @ Barbes
* Shannon McNally @ Joe's Pub
* Secret Chiefs 3 @ Mercury Lounge
* Joe Bonamassa @ Beacon Theatre
* Gabriel Rios, Aly Tardos @ 92YTribeca
* The Staves, Escondido @ Mercury Lounge
* Father John Misty, Jessica Pratt @ Maxwell's
* Black Francis, Reid Paley @ Symphony Space
* Lucia Pulido Canciones De Despecho @ Barbes
* Mother Feather, Velta, Fan Tan @ Cameo Gallery
* Psychic Twin, Pompeya, Genghis Hans @ 285 Kent
* Shake The Baron, Nightbox, Tinmouth @ Glasslands
* Melissa Ferrick, The Western Den @ The Bell House
* !!!, Sinkane, DJ Thanksgiving Brown @ Bowery Ballroom
* Distal, Owen Howells, Dave Q, Braille @ Cameo Gallery
* Bettye LaVette, Blind Boys of Alabama @ The Town Hall
* Ola Podrida, Anacortes, Aaron Zimmer @ The Rock Shop
* Body Language (DJ Set), BFG, Sleepyhead, Figgy @ Bizarre
* Honduras, BNLX, Eastern Hollows, Grand Resort @ Big Snow
* Retox, Tinsel Teeth, Psychic Limb, Meek is Murder @ Pianos
* Vitamin X, Living Void, Grudges, Brain Slug @ Saint Vitus Bar
* The Thang, My Left Tit, MC Biggles, The Regulars @ Cake Shop
* Hypnotic Brass Ensemble @ Rooftop Films (MetroTech Commons)
* SOJA, Nahko & Medicine for the People, Los Rakas @ Webster Hall
* Bueno, Video Daughters, Big Muff, Dog Water, Clouty @ Muchmore's
* Le Youth, Chrome Canyon (DJ Set), Air Zaire (DJ Set) @ Glasslands
* The Lonely Wild, Yellow Red Sparks, The Lonelyhearts @ Union Hall
* Ali Shaheed Muhammad (of A Tribe Called Quest), MASEO @ Paper Box
* Crazy and The Brains, Berth Control, Jeffrey Lewis @ The Bowery Electric
* Yeah Yeah Yeahs, The Flaming Lips, The Darkness @ Great GoogaMooga
* Speedy Ortiz, Island Twins, Advaeta, Idiot Genes, Lunchbox @ Silent Barn
* Anamanaguchi, Pictureplane, Hot Sugar, George & Jonathan @ Irving Plaza
* ATB, Eric Prydz, Dirty South, Zed's Dead, Richie Hawtin, Seth Troxler @ Citi Field
* Turnip King, pow wow!, Las Rosas, The Teen Age, Cosmonaut @ Living Bread
* Andrew Cedermark, Brass Bed, Jonathan Meiburg (of Shearwater) @ Death By Audio
* The Hollows, The Future Laureates, The Third Wheel Band, The Woes @ Littlefield
* Porches, Laser Background, Cloud Becomes Your Hand, Celestial Shore @ Shea Stadium
* Big Ups, Lunchbox, Villager, Night Visions, Sharkmuffin, Cum Blood @ Living Gallery
* The Electric Set, Cinema Cinema, Hounds Basket, Robot Death Kites, Bloom, Punks On Mars @ Brooklyn Fireproof East

Don't forget the GoogaMooga 2013 kickoff concert today starts EARLY with The Darkness going on at 4:45 PM, The Flaming Lips at 6:15 PM, and Yeah Yeah Yeahs at 8:30 PM.

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Thurston Moore's Chelsea Light Moving have released a new video for their track "Lips and you can watch that below.

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Market Hotel tag sale this Saturday

As Todd P continues to turn Market Hotel into a new and fully legal Brooklyn venue, a sale is happening to clean out some of the old stuff. Details, live music included, below...

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download 2 new songs from Liars who play NYC this weekend

As mentioned a few times, Liars are here this weekend for two shows: a sold-out one Saturday (5/18) at The Met's Temple of Dendur, and then Sunday (5/19) at Le Poisson Rouge with Doldrums (relocated from Brooklyn Masonic Temple, tickets). To plug these shows, Liars are offering up two new songs as a free download. One of those tracks, "I Saw You From The Lifeboat," has a video as well which you can watch below.

In addition to the NYC shows, Liars will be heading to Europe for a tour that includes a stop at Primavera Sound in Barcelona, Spain. All dates are listed below.

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