Prospect Park Bandshell

MGMT plays tonite at Celebrate! Brooklyn.



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Shakespeare of the Day

There are only 9 dates left for the latest installation of Shakespeare in the Park. The Twelfth Night is surely not to be missed. Log-in at midnight for a spot on the virtual-line the day of your desired day ~ and check back in ~ in the afternoon to see if you are invited..! For Free!

The players were recently on Leonard Lopate ~ it should be quite a treat.

Please sir, I want some. More.

Discover Discovery

Featuring members of Vampire Weekend and Ra Ra Riot ~ Discovery ~ album out July 7th.

Nudie Strikes Again.

Wilco appeared on The Tonight Show last week bathed in Nudie Suits. Spectacular.



That original post was based on the first episode of the Wilco/Nudie Suit tale.

Wilco's latest, self-titled album is out today.

Rusty Santos of the Day

Rusty Santos will be performing at Monkey Town Wednesday night.

Former Animal Collective, Ariel Pink and Vashti Bunyan producer, Santos has released four solo albums and currently touring as The Present.

No Wave

James Chance was the saxophone-playing-funky-rowboat dancing-frontman of the Contortions, one of the original punk jazz groups of the New York No Wave scene of the late 1970's.

Band of the Day

~ TONITE AT CELEBRATE BROOKLYN ~

Video of the Day

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Hudson River Park

Matt & Kim play River Rocks at Pier 54 on July 9th. These shows are FREE but tend to start a wee early for the regular day laborer. This show is scheduled to start at 6pm ~ but if you don't get there by around 4.30/5pm, you can forget it. I cruised by last year when Blonde Redhead was scheduled, by 5.30 I think the line ended somewhere near Dinosaur Bar B Que.

But Pier 54 plays host to many rad happenings; here's the events page.

* YEASAYER, AUG 13!!!!

4th of July of the Day

Conor Oberst and the Mystic Valley Band

~ with ~

Jenny Lewis

~ @ ~

RiverToRiver Festival

July 4th at Battery Park

It's Totally Free. Yeah, America.

The Wooden Birds

The first time I heard American Analog Set I thought I'd discovered the UK's version of Wilco. Turns out they were fronted by a Texan. huh.

Andrew Kenny has now formed ~ and is on tour with ~ The Wooden Birds. Their debut album Magnolia was released in May on Arts & Crafts and they play tonight at The Bell House in Brooklyn.



As unfathomable as it seems, Kenny's somehow achieved an even mellower sound ~ mellowerestest even ~ than his days with AmAnSet. wow. Well done, cowboy.

And here's a sampling from that aforementioned british wilco band:

The Drums:The Annex:This Evening

Here are The Drums. They've made The Annex their home through June and will be there tonite with a host of additional NY dates yet this summer. Their EP Summertime is due out August 4th.



These guys have a buzz going for their live performances steeped in 50's surf rock with blended gloomy 80's pop. It's easy to say that the small, intimate venues won't be holding them for long.

New Album of the Day?

Bjork has just released her latest project, Voltaic, to the masses. And rather than hit us with the next wave of sonic sounds of the Nordic persuasion, Bjork + band have offered more of a retrospective of their cannon.

Prior to touring their last album Volta, released in 2007, the group recorded live to tape selections from Medulla, Homogenic, Post, Vespertine and Volta. These performances are what make up the Voltaic release.

Goddamn this is good. And Free. Free and Goddamn good for you.

The Icelandic folk songstress Olof Arnalds...

Ólöf Arnalds in series Ears to the Ground from Dig For Fire on Vimeo.

... will be opening for Blonde Redhead...



...at the Prospect Park Bandshell on Friday nite. It would be in your best interest to attend.