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What's going on Sunday?

Liturgy @ Market Hotel on Halloween (more by Andrew Frisicano)

tonight in NYC
* Sunday Best @ The Bell House
* Vijay Iyer Trio @ Jazz Standard
* Monsters of Folk @ Beacon Theater
* Nana Grizol, Golden Ghost @ Cake Shop
* Bruce Springsteen & The E Street Band @ MSG
* Gary War, PC Worship, Liturgy, Florida @ Death By Audio
* Iron Lung, Mind Eraser, Brain Handle, Nomos @ Cake Shop
* Wolfmother, The Heartless Bastards, Thenewno2 @ Terminal 5
* 'In C Remixed' w/ GVS New Music Ensemble @ (Le) Poisson Rouge
* The Mary Onettes, The Art of Shooting, Coyote Eyes, Werewolves @ Mercury Lounge
* Liquor Store, Americans In France, Lame Drivers, Sentence Diagrams @ Silent Barn
* Devil Makes Three, Mymns, Spirit Family Reunion, Spitzer Space Telescope @ Southpaw

Mika Miko play one of their last shows ever today at Fun Fun Fun Fest in Austin. MM videos and full FFFF schedule below...

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Fun Fun Fun Fest - Day 1 in pics

Annual Austin music festival Fun Fun Fun Fest lived up to its name once again today (Saturday, November 7th). And that was just Day One. The fun continues on Sunday which ends with a headlining set by Danzig (and Of Montreal on another stage). More coverage and pictures to come, but before I run out to the Saturday night afterparties (going to try and see Voxtrot at Mohawk and Negative Approach at Red 7), I just wanted to post a few pictures. Check them out below...

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What's going on Saturday?

Modeselektor @ Bowery Ballroom in January (more by Zach Dilgard)

tonight in NYC
* NY Comedy Festival
* Jookabox @ Bruar Falls
* Vijay Iyer Trio @ Jazz Standard
* The Glorytellers, Ida @ Union Hall
* Radical Sons, Your Nature @ Cake Shop
* Tahiti 80 & Soulico @ Mercury Lounge
* Modeselektor @ Music Hall of Williamsburg
* Bruce Springsteen & The E Street Band @ MSG
* The XYZ Affair, Poor But Sexy @ Brooklyn Bowl
* Fixed w/ Basement Jaxx (DJ) @ Santos Party House
* Sharon Van Etten, Natureboy, Rey Villalobos @ Union Pool
* Crystal Stilts, Grass Widow, The Beets @ Brooklyn Museum
* Brother Ali, Evidence, Toki Wright, BK One @ Irving Plaza
* Osso Quartet, Sufjan Steven's The BQE (film) @ The Bell House
* Idea Fire Company, Infinity Window, Sons of God @ Issue Project Room
* The Helz, Me You Us Them, Dinowalrus, Exit Clov @ Santos Party House
* Dougle Negative, Pollution, Prsms, Passive Aggressor @ The Charleston
* Vader, Decrepit Birth, Warbringer, The Amenta, Augury @ Gramercy Theater
* Carsick Cars, P.K.14, Xiao He, BJ Rubin, Knyfe Hyts @ Santos Party House
* Double Dagger, Black Wine, Night Birds, Dope Body, Modern Hut @ Maxwell's
* Emanuel And The Fear, Peasant, Darla Farmer, Boy Crisis, Das Racist @ 3rd Ward
* Grass Window, Small Black, Pictureplane, Girls at Dawn, Cale Parks @ Market Hotel

Lots of free stuff at the Brooklyn Museum today.

Megafaun is playing today at Sarah Lawrence College in Bronxville, NY.

The Boss will be playing a full album at Madison Square Garden tonight. Mariska Hargitay has tickets.

Don't forget
tickets are on sale for the 2010 season of Lincoln Center's American Songbook.

Fun Fun Fun Fest is happening in Austin. Today's full, four stage schedule below.

The Bitters played Market Hotel last night. Video below...

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Sufjan might be @ Bell House, Jookabox will be @ Bruar Falls (new album, MP3, video, 2009 tour dates)

DOWNLOAD: Jookabox - You Cried Me (MP3)

Jookax record release show (by Dave Evans)

Asthmatic Kitty Records is representing in two neighborhoods of Brooklyn tonight (11/7). Sufjan's BQE movie screens one last time at the Bell House along with a performance by the Osso Quartet (see review of the 92yTribeca show). It's not clear if Sufjan Stevens will be there to introduce the film or not, though it seems reasonable that he would if he's in town. Tickets are still available.

Or maybe Sufjan will be in Williamsburg instead, checking out Jookabox (formerly Grampall Jookabox) whose album Dead Zone Boys was released on his label on November 3rd. The show is at Bruar Falls. Or maybe he'll just wait to see Jookabox when they/he plays Cake Shop on Tuesday (11/10). MP3 above. Video and all dates below...

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Yeah Yeah Yeahs @ Angel Orensanz (Droid party) pics, setlist

words by Andrew Frisicano, photos by Chris Goldberg

Yeah Yeah Yeahs played the Verizon DROID launch party at Angel Orensanz (the previously undisclosed location in NYC's Lower East Side) on Friday, November 6th. Music started at 9pm and was promptly over by 10pm.

The band is playing Fever to Tell in full at Ten Years Of ATP in the UK in December, but the set here was spread between all three of their albums (to the dismay of the guy behind me who kept requesting Fever). If you could ignore the subliminal Google ads flashing before your eyes and the "celebrities" watching the show from the balcony overhead (Christian Siriano from Project Runway looked pensive throughout) the show was a pretty good time. Most of the people there seemed to be fans of the band. The set was brief and to the point (and missed some key material, like all of the good songs off the new album) and there was no encore.

The venue itself was a big highlight: Angel Orensanz Center is one of the oldest synagogues in the US and has beautifully rustic ornamentation.

More pictures from the show and its setlist are below...

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Pavement playing Sasquatch Festival (and at least 17 other 2010 shows so far - Primavera, ATP & more)

...," the Sasquatch! Festival returns for its ninth year May 29-31 (Memorial Day Weekend), 2010 at The Gorge in Quincy, WA. For the first time, a special discounted 3-day festival pass will be available in time for the holiday gift season on Saturday, November 7 at 10:00 A.M. (PST) via sasquatchfestival.com. There are a limited number of discount passes, which will be available through December 31, 2009. Recently reunited indie rock legends Pavement will be performing. The festival's complete lineup will be announced February 16.

Since first announcing they'd be playing four shows at NYC's Central Park Summerstage (all currently listed as sold out), Pavement has gone on to announce more shows in Australia and Europe including an ATP that they're curating, and Primavera Sound in Spain. Sasquatch is the 2nd confirmed U.S. location so far, and it happens a full four months before the NYC dates.

Other rumored U.S. appearances are Coachella and the Pitchfork Festival. Meanwhile Pavement member Spiral Stairs just released a new album. The new Spiral Stairs video, and all Pavement dates, and who Pavement has picked to play their sold out ATP fest so far, below...

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Julian Casablancas kicks off LA residency tonight ------- 2009 Tour Dates & new album info

Strokes frontman gone solo Julian Casablancas, not to be confused with Interpol frontman gone solo Julian Plenti, kicks off a five-show residency at Los Angeles' Downtown Palace Theatre tonight (11/6). He also has shows scheduled in San Francisco, Seattle and some other places, though still no NY...

These confirmed tour dates support Casablancas' solo debut, Phrazes for the Young, which [was] released November 3 on Cult Records/RCA (Rough Trade in the U.K.). As part of the release, Casablancas is offering a Luxury Edition Deluxe Set of the record. A full description and pre-order are now available at www.juliancasablancas.com.

Casablancas wrote and orchestrated every musical detail on the album from poly-rhythmic drum beats to harmonizing guitar solos. Highlights include the first single, "11th Dimension" (available now on iTunes)...

Julian performed on Conan O'Brien on October 27th. The video of that performance with the new album track listing, and all dates and stuff, below...

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(((microwaves))) - MP3s & 2009 Tour Dates

by BBG

DOWNLOAD: Microwaves - "Thumbs Down, Lambpit" (MP3)
DOWNLOAD: Microwaves - "Song X" (MP3)

(((microwaves)))

Pittsburgh's purveyors of skronky noise rock, (((microwaves))), are heading out for a short set of US dates including a NYC show at Cake Shop on 11/20 with Manikin, Imaginary Icons, and Ill Ease. More details to come.

Microwaves's last LP Contagion Heuristic was released on Crucial Blast, and is recommended for fans of everything from Am Rep to Sightings, Lightning Bolt, and even Parts & Labor's noisier side. Pick up that LP here.

All dates below...

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Tiger Flowers playing Union Pool & other shows

by BBG

Tiger Flowers @ Lit Lounge (more by Justina Villanueva)

I am proud to announce the final addition to the Dark Castle / The Atlas Moth / Wetnurse show at Union Pool on 11/17, the vastly underrated and incendiary Tiger Flowers. Fans of Botch, Gaza, A Life Once Lost, Ed Gein, and anything dissonant, chaotic, brutal, and tangentially hardcore should rejoice. By the way, for those of you who are Facebook inclined, a page for the show is here. (While you're at it, become a fan of the new BrooklynVegan page - still under construction)

Tiger Flowers are currently booking dates with The March of Echoes in the new year. Get in touch with the band if interested in booking.

When we last saw Tiger Flowers, it was when they opened for the great (and very different) Karma To Burn, who are currently working on new material.

Show flyer and some videos are below.

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Cave touring (dates) - NYC shows w/ Times New Viking & White Hills +++ 2010 Roadburn lineup expands

by BBG

Cave

Chicago's Cave and NYC's White Hills will team up for a night of rip-roarin' psychedeli-madness at Brooklyn's Death By Audio on 11/16. The show is one of two lined up for the Cave. The second is an opening slot for Times New Viking at Mercury Lounge on 11/18, the first of three NYC area dates for TNV this month. Tickets are still available.

Cave are touring behind their album Psychic Psummer which was released earlier this year on Important Records. The first pressing sold out, but you can pick up a second press copy here. Important also has a few one minute snippets from the LP here.

White Hills recently dropped a new 12" on Thrill Jockey, Dead, their second release for the label, as Heads On Fire was reissued earlier this year. You can view a video for Dead below. White Hills played Roadburn 2009.

Speaking of Roadburn, the festival added some more high-profile bands to their already outstanding 2010 lineup including Yob, Kylesa, Church of Misery, The Gates of Slumber, Nachtmystium, and many more. The current lineup is below. Tickets go on sale 11/28.

The current Roadburn lineup, Cave tour dates and the White Hills video are below.

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have a Who Shot Rock n Roll themed Saturday @ The Brooklyn Museum (where Blondie played)

photos by Eric Weiss

Blondie @ The Brooklyn Museum

The above and below pictures from the Who Shot Rock & Roll opening event at the Brooklyn Museum on Thursday, October 29th. Blondie performed for museum members and invited guests to celebrate the music photographs now on display.

This Saturday, 11/7, the fun continues as Who Shot Rock & Roll becomes the theme for six hours of free "First Saturday" events at the museum. From 5-8 is the previously-mentioned Crystal Stilts, Grass Window and the Beets show. That runs at the same time as a discussion with with photographers Bob Gruen and Justin Borucki which is just one of many events that night. It all ends with a "dance party" and a performance by Terrance Koh. More info at the museum's site. More pictures from the opening, and a flyer for the show designed by The Beets, below...

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Fucked Up performed an album w/ Vivian Girls, Andrew WK, Titus Andronicus, Katie Stelmanis & The Girls at Dawn @ Brooklyn Masonic Temple - pics & review

words by Andrew Frisicano, photos by Jake Forney

Apart from a few deviations, Fucked Up succeeded in performing their 2008 album The Chemistry of Common Life in full and in sequence at the Brooklyn Masonic Temple on Thursday, November 5th. The program even found room for the record's hazy instrumentals "Golden Seal" and "Looking for God," both of which featured guest keyboardist Andrew W.K. On the latter, one of the last songs of the night, W.K. was noodley and playful, tacking pointy chords to the song's building progression.

Vivian Girls were another of the night's guests. They added eerie siren-like back ups to "Crooked Head" and "No Epiphany," as they do (with Frankie Rose who was playing her own show across town) on the recorded version.

Another album guest, Katie Stelmanis, who stole the show with her band's unique opening set, dueted with Pink Eyes on the apocalyptic slow-builder "Royal Swan." Her operatic voice tangled with the burly singer's cryptic proclamations. Andrew W.K. was there too, and led the way with an introductory piano figure, cued with a huge wink by guitarist Ben Cook. The epic took minutes to unfold, and it was one of the night's rarer moments.

The pacing of the album did need some energy injected at times - that came in the form of "Crusades," which the band inserted after "Black Albino Bones" (dedicated to "anyone who collects records"). "Peaceable Kingdom," a ChemCom bonus track almost never performed live, was uneventful, until Pink Eyes decided to join the night's many stagedivers (many annoying and wasted) by falling into the crowd and writhing on the ground for a while.

For the encore, the band treated the crowd to "David Comes to Life" and a full-guest version of "Louie Louie." There was no "Party Hard" as requested many times, and that was for the best. Titus Andronicus hinted at that song by jamming on its opening riff while setting up. They played tightly-packed opening set, which had one brief lull. "I thought it was okay after one string broke, but now I'm down to four..." said singer/guitarist Patrick Stickles before grabbing a seafoam green guitar backstage. "I hope the very nice lady in the first band doesn't mind."

That would be the guitarist for Katie Stelmanis, who joined the singer and a percussionist (also on marimba) to perform gothy pop with a booming, crisp sound. On stage, Stlemanis projected a world of drama with the subtlest gesture. The following act, The Girls at Dawn, did off the cuff, girl-group-inspired punk. Their front-woman (girl) was covered in fake blood.

Pink Eyes stuck around until the last fan got his 7-inch signed and a shirtless hug. More pictures from the show below...

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The Very Best & Sleigh Bells played Santos in NYC - pics

words & photos by Benjamin Lozovsky

It's hard to be The Very Best without showing up. That's a lesson Esau Mwamwaya learned the hard way, but one he was eager to make up for as his burgeoning new project with English production duo Radioclit made their return to New York City Wednesday night at Santos Party House. They last properly played NYC in July and two recent no-shows at scheduled performances in the New York area increased the anticipatory grumblings among their fans. First there was a much-awaited appearance at this year's CMJ Music Marathon that never materialized, then there was a Halloween night slot at a benefit concert that found the band performing without their singer.

With a typical display of warmth that has categorized his new group's quick rise to prominence however, the Malawian born, London-based vocalist was roundly apologetic for his previous absences. "I know people were disappointed," said Mwamwaya after the show. "I personally feel so bad for not coming for CMJ, but what could I have done? I had no choice."

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Lee Scratch Perry, DOOM, Devendra Banhart, Levon Helm, Adam Franklin, Joe Pernice & other tickets

Lee Scratch Perry is playing Highline Ballroom on December 13th. Tickets are on sale.

Tickets are on sale (@ noon) for the show Devendra Banhart just added at Music Hall of Williamsburg.

DOOM and Mos Def are playing Nokia Theatre on January 30th. Tickets are on sale.

Tickets are on sale (@ noon) for a January 8th Dutchess and The Duke show at Mercury Lounge. They'll play Union Pool on the same tour.

Tickets are on sale (@ noon) for a January 15th Joe Pernice show at Mercury Lounge. This is a new date. He was supposed to play the venue tonight (11/6), but that show was canceled.

Tickets are on sale (@ noon) for the January 22nd Serena Maneesh show at Mercury Lounge.

Tickets are on sale (@ noon) for a January 5th Adam Franklin (of Swervedriver) & The Bolts of Melody show at Mercury Lounge.

Tickets are now on U2.com presale for the U2 show at "New Meadowlands Stadium" in July. General sale starts Monday at 10am.

Tickets are on sale (@ noon) for the Levon Helm / Okkervil River show coming up at Terminal 5.

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What's going on Friday?

Monsters of Folk @ L.A.'s Greek Theatre (more by Graeme Flegenheimer)

tonight in NYC
* NY Comedy Festival
* Glenn Tilbrook @ Union Hall
* Mae, Deas Vail @ Irving Plaza
* Vijay Iyer Trio @ Jazz Standard
* Girls, Real Estate @ Bowery Ballroom
* Yeah Yeah Yeahs @ Angel Orensanz
* Fran Healy and Andy Dunlop @ Joe's Pub
* Joseph Arthur, Shilpa Ray @ City Winery
* Amy Millan, The Bahamas @ The Bell House
* Monsters of Folk @ United Palace Theatre
* Jeremy Jay, The Black Umbrella @ Cake Shop
* Hidden Cameras, Gentleman Reg @ Union Hall
* The Mary Onettes, Kordan @ Studio at Webster Hall
* Holy Hail, Desert Stars, Open Ocean @ Bruar Falls
* Love as Laughter, Hartwell Littlejohn @ Union Pool
* Radical Sons, Freelance Whales, The Invisible @ Pianos
* Abe Vigoda, Extra Life, Hot Box, Coasting @ Death By Audio
* Warren G, Kids in the Hall, U-N-I @ Music Hall of Williamsburg
* Vivian Girls, Grass Widow, Bitters, Stupid Party @ Market Hotel
* Olof Arnalds, Anne Carson, Kjartan Sveinsson (of Sigur Ros) @ The Whitney
* These Are Powers, Soft Circle, Carsick Cars, P.K.14, Xiao He @ Glasslands
* Comeback Kid, Gravemaker, Mother of Mercy, Dead Swans @ Santos Party House

NY Post is liveblogging the Yankees parade

11:25 a.m. -- A calm and cool-looking Alex Rodriguez sporting a black fedora and shades as he waits for his float to arrive so he can jump on and revel in the celebration. As the crowd continued to chant "A-Rod," Rodriguez just stood there blowing bubbles with his pink gum.

11:11 a.m. -- Former Mayor Rudy Giuliani, a staple at Yankee games, makes his way up the parade route.

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