Just a quick heads up, tickets are now available at Soundfix, Other Music and Brownpapertickets.com for the 88 drummer performance organized by Boredoms in Brooklyn.
From Pitchfork:
Japanese psych-noise-crazy-genius-types Boredoms will once again bring the clattering of oh-so-many drums to the States this summer, in a bi-coastal sequel to last year’s wildly successful 77BoaDrum event. This […]

Nas played a private show at Alife on Monday.

N.E.R.D. played a Paper Magazine party at Santos’ on Tuesday.

After their set at South Street Seaport on Friday, No Age played Death by Audio

And Abe Vigoda played Matthew Schnipper’s apartment

Bunny Attack
Tod Seelie aka Sucka Pants aka One of Our Favorite Local Photographers is opening his first ever solo show at Cinders Gallery on Thursday. Opening reception is 7-10PM and the show entitled Slowdancing to Slayer will be on display until August 9th.
Tons of other stuff going on Thursday night as well including a […]

Plan of attack
Siren Fest is this Saturday at Coney Island, who’s going? It’s pretty enjoyable early on with the crowds get progressively worse throughout the day. We posted a muxtape with some of our favorite bands playing.
A Place to Bury Strangers, Apes & Androids and Marnie Stern are playing the afterparty at Music […]

[Space Mouse by PureEVA]
Bowery Presents just sent out an email blast for a last minute Modest Mouse show tonight (June 19th)! They are opening up for REM with The National at MSG earlier tonight.
Modest Mouse
Music Hall of Williamsburg
1:00am doors / 1:30am show
$20 (no service charge!)
Tickets

[Sonic Youth by Monica Dee via Flickr]
Sonic Youth has a free show on July 4th at Battery Park as part of the River to River Festival, tickets will be available next Thursday at noon. We’ll send a reminder out on our Twitter before they go live.
Time: 3:30pm
Date: July 4, 2008
Location: Battery Park
Price: Free
Sonic Youth […]

[Wiimbledon logo via itomi]
There’s at least one event each month in NYC where you can make an A-1 ass of yourself without feeling the least bit self-conscious. This month’s event is the 2nd annual Wiimbledon tournament at Barcade. The battle begins at 10AM with 128 participants dressed as bears, slutty robots and the […]

Our friend Jack put together a robot parade on Sunday running from Park Slope to Prospect Park, Brooklyn. He wasn’t promoting, selling or marketing anything. Just for fun. It was a perfect WTF moment for a cloudy Sunday morning. More photos of the parade can be found here.

We last saw Jay at Death by Audio in October and then successfully missed all ten of his CMJ showcases. He plays a furious non-stop 30 minute set leaving you a big sweaty mess, Pitchfork.tv graciously posted his entire set at Cake Shop during CMJ last year. We’ll definitely be checking him next […]

[Matt & Kim at Zombie Prom via thepiratehat]
Matt & Kim played some homecoming shows over the weekend with Team Robespierre at SUNY Purchase’s Zombie Prom on Friday 4/4, Pratt on Saturday 4/5 and an afterparty at Lost and Found (Lulu’s) in Greenpoint. We caught the Pratt show which took place in a big, seated […]

[Photo by Moriza]
As the perfect way to decompress after three days of St. Patty’s celebrations, Other Music is throwing a free show tomorrow night with El Guincho from Barcelona, Spain. They have a refreshing Tropicalia influence and have been making the blog rounds with a Band to Watch profile on Stereogum, a Best New […]

Wooster reminded us we never mentioned Matthew Rodriguez’s show “Scruffy Kitty” at Rare Gallery. You’ve probably seen Matthew’s frowny faces on buildings, fire hydrants and garbage cans in your neighborhood.
In his solo debut at RARE, Austin, Texas-based artist Matthew Rodriguez presents new collages, paintings, objects, and photographs that combine the sweetness of a grade-schooler’s […]

What better way to spend corporate sponsorship dollars than cheap concerts? Jelly NYC, the promoters behind the pool parties at McCarren Pool, just announced two awesome shows at the Brooklyn Masonic Temple. Tickets available at TicketWeb.
Boost Mobile + Jelly NYC in partnership with New York Magazine present ‘The Secret Society’ with:
Sunset Rubdown, Ecstatic […]

One of our favorite experimental electronic acts Matmos is playing back-to-back sets (8PM & 10 PM) on Saturday at The Stone in the East Village. Tickets are $10 and you might want to get there early since there are no advance tickets available. The XLR8R video above documents the groups move from San […]

Beer Bong by Andrew Jeffrey Wright
Aw, horse apples! Our friend Maxwell Williams curated a group show opening tonight at Cinders Gallery featuring small, intimate pieces by David Shrigley, PFFR (dudes behind Wonder Showzen) and a whole bunch of others. Afterparty at Soundfix! Full artist list and afterparty details below!

[via Sun-Sentinel’s Scared of Santa Gallery]
Hey guys, sorry for the hiatus. We’ve been spending too much time at the beer garden working on the next version of this wonderful website. We promise you’ll start seeing some changes around here in the coming months. It’s holiday party week (try not to get fired) […]

[Photo from The Gowanus Lounge]
At long last the Radegast Hall & Biergarten has finished getting all their licenses and will be opening its doors on Friday at 3PM. They boast an offering of 50 beers and a much fancier menu than the beer garden in Queens (entrees start at $16). If you can’t […]

Here’s a round up of some Halloween parties/events in the neighborhood. There’s a couple in Manhattan but no worries Snotty McHipsterpants, everything is below 14th St. The events are all linked to our lovely event calendar. For more upcoming events hit the big calendar icon on the right.
Friday, October 26
Brooklyn Chainsaw Massacre […]

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Matt & Kim played a predictably fun set at the Music Hall on Saturday as CMJ wound down. We caught them at a warehouse and Siren Fest this year and this show was just as crazy. Lots of stage diving (note: five dudes can’t jump into the same spot in the crowd all […]

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Deerhunter played to a packed Cake Shop to close out the Chouette showcase on Friday. Luckily they didn’t have any of the sound problems that plagued the Papercuts set before them. They played a solid hour-long set without any of the antics of their Bowery Ballroom show on Wednesday. If you missed […]