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What To Do This Weekend
Friday:
Crookers (Italy), Annie Mac, and Congorock will be at Webster Hall.
Lotus and BLVD at Bowery Ballroom
Nightmare of You, Plushgun, The Canon Logic, and Borrowed Eyes at Maxwell’s
The Wooden Birds and Lymbyc System at Mercury Lounge
Superdrag, Aberdeen City, Cassavettes at Music Hall of Williamsburg
Rusko, Phantom’s Revenge and Black Holes at Studio B
The Wrens, Amazing Baby, and Overload at The Bell House
Young Love at The Studio at Webster Hall
The Faint, Ladytron, and Telepathe at Webster Hall
Saturday:
Extra Golden and Meta & The Cornerstones… More »
Van Morrison, Ladytron, The Roots, and More On Sale
It’s Friday, so that means lots of tickets go on sale today:
Van Morrison, who had already announced two shows at Madison Square Garden on February 27 and 28, has added two shows at The Beacon Theater on March 3 and 4. At all of these shows he will be playing is album Astral Weeks. Tickets for all shows are on sale now.
Ladytron is going on tour with The Faint and they will be in NYC on April 10 and 11… More »
Filter Releases More Top 10 Lists
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Filter Magazine has released more bands’ and musicians’ Top Ten Albums of 2008 lists. This week MGMT was the most frequently named artist. Check out who Diplo, the Black Kids, and others named as their favorites:
The Faint
The Watson Twins
Diplo
Snow Patrol’s Gary Lightbody
The Dead Trees’ Michael Alan Cummings
The Duke Spirit
Of Montreal’s Dottie Alexander
Black Kids
Midnight Juggernauts
Peter Bjorn and John’s Peter Morén
Peter Bjorn and John’s Bjorn Yttling
The Jealous Girlfriends
X’s DJ Bonebrake
The Walkmen’s Walt Martin
Glasvegas’ Paul Donoghue
White Denim’s James Petralli
Arbouretum
The Panics’ Jae Laffer
Ed… More »
The Faint Have New Album, Tour, Remix
Dance punk/new wavers The Faint have a new album coming out tomorrow August 5 called Fasciinatiion and are going on tour to support it. They’ll be at Terminal 5 on August 18 and tickets are on sale. Oh, and as a special bonus I have this Does It Offend You, Yeah? remix of their current single “The Geeks Were Right.” Check it out here!
All tour dates:
August
1 Vancouver, BC – Commodore Ballroom
2 Seattle, WA – The Showbox
3 Portland, OR… More »
Built to Spill, Spiritualized, Tilly and the Wall, and More On Sale This Week
Across the Narrows – Built to Spill
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A bunch of awesome shows are going on sale this week, but the one I’m most excited about has got to be the ATP Presents: Built to Spill, Dinosaur Jr., and Meat Puppets show on Sept. 25 and 26 t Terminal 5. What a great group of nineties bands! Tickets for that go on sale Thursday at noon here.
Here’s a bunch of other shows going on sale today,… More »