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News + video: Monster Island Block Party is happening all day long tomorrow - Watch a video of Aa playing last year

John Ruscher — Fri, 03 Sep 2010 15:10:00 EDT

The annual Monster Island Block Party goes down tomorrow with a bunch of awesome bands...

News: Cake Shop trying to raise money to start an online video series through Kickstarter - 7 days to go

John Ruscher — Fri, 03 Sep 2010 13:00:00 EDT

Cake Shop, the home to many great shows over the past five years, is trying to raise some funds to start an online video series and more...

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Video: Lou Barlow playing Sebadoh's "Soul and Fire" on a ukulele at Mercury Lounge on Wednesday

John Ruscher — Fri, 03 Sep 2010 07:00:00 EDT

Here's a video of Lou Barlow playing "Soul and Fire," from Sebadoh's 1993 album Bubble and Scrape, at Mercury Lounge on Wednesday, courtesy of spoonman462. Just Lou and a Ukulele!...

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Photos + video: Boogie Boarder's final show at Union Pool last night, including a cover of Suicide's "Rocket U.S.A."

John Ruscher — Thu, 02 Sep 2010 16:20:00 EDT

Here's a video and some photos that we shot of Boogie Boarder playing at Union Pool last night...

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Photos + video: Heavy Cream at Union Pool on Wednesday - They play Cake Shop tonight, The Rock Shop and Death By Audio next week

John Ruscher — Thu, 02 Sep 2010 15:44:00 EDT

Last night we saw Nashville's Heavy Cream at Union Pool. Check out some videos and photos below...

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Video: Text of Light with Sonic Youth's Lee Ranaldo at the Whitney Museum in July - They play tonight at Le Poisson Rouge

John Ruscher — Thu, 02 Sep 2010 11:59:00 EDT

Here's a video of Sonic Youth's Lee Ranaldo performing Christian Marclay's "Screenplay" with Text of Light (which also includes Alan Licht and Ulrich Krieger) at the Whitney Museum back in July as part of Marclay's exhibition "Festival"...

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Video: Built to Spill - "Hindsight" - They play aboard The Temptress tonight

John Ruscher — Thu, 02 Sep 2010 07:00:00 EDT

Built to Spill plays on a boat tonight. Check out their new video for "Hindsight" from last year's There Is No Enemy...

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Streaming: Talibam! - "Cruisin' the Cookie Isle" - 7" release show tonight at Zebulon!

John Ruscher — Wed, 01 Sep 2010 16:04:00 EDT

Here's "Cruisin' the Cookie Isle," the A-side from Talibam!'s latest 7", which is a joint release on ESP Disk' and Electric Cowbell Records entitled Cosmoplitude...

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Video: Heavy Cream - "Watusi" - They play Union Pool tonight, Cake Shop Thursday, Death By Audio & Rock Shop next week

John Ruscher — Wed, 01 Sep 2010 09:00:00 EDT

Here's the video for "Watusi" by Nashville's Heavy Cream, who are playing NYC four times in the coming week...

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Streaming: "Flower Girl" and "Floating," new tunes from The Beets' Daytrotter Session - They play Union Hall on Thursday, Central Park with Pavement on 9/24

John Ruscher — Wed, 01 Sep 2010 07:00:00 EDT

Check out a couple of new songs from The Beets' Daytrotter Session, which went up yesterday...

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