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DOWNLOAD: Gods & Queens - Untitled II EP (RAR'd MP3)

Zann

Germany's Zann will team up with Gods & Queens and Black Kites for a killer three band bill at Stolen Sleeves TONIGHT (9/10). The German hardcore band is prepping to release the X 7" on Protagonist Music. Black Kites recently dropped an LP on the same label, entitled Songs Written While Things Were Changing. Order a copy. Gods & Queens recently played Death By Audio with another German hardcore band, Planks, and released the available-for-free-download-EP Untitled II. Dig on that above.

Video of Back Kites and Zann from a recent show is below. Shit is brutal.

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Sleep night 1 photos by Greg Cristman
A Storm of Light/Lichens by BBG, Sleep night 2 by Justina Villanueva

Sleep (by Justina Villanueva)

Sleep played their second and final show at Brooklyn Masonic Temple on Wednesday (9/8, first show was two days earlier), this time with an assist from A Storm of Light and Lichens. As with the previous night, support was fantastic though in much different ways. A Storm of Light featured Zohra Atash (Religious To Damn) on vocals, new drummer RJ from US Christmas, and Will Lindsay (Indian, Wolves In The Throne Room) on second guitar, which added tremendous depth to the already massive sound that the band has cultivated and on the PA at the Masonic Temple, it only sounded larger. Lichens followed, and although technical difficulties truncated Rob Lowe's set to a paltry 15+ minutes, his vocal and primitive synth harmonies were enthralling in those brief moments. Excellent set.

Thirty minutes earlier than the night before, Sleep launched into their set with the opening bars of "Dopesmoker".Your primary document tonight is 1993's Sleep's Holy Mountain, a churning monolith wherein tunes like "Aquarian" change tempo and velocity in a real casual, nonchalant way, a nice balance of dirge and thrash, narcotics and histrionics. "Traveling toward the atomic sky!" Cisneros growls on "Inside the Sun," and verily you soon feel like you're standing in it yourself. (The Brooklyn Masonic Temple remains a fantastic place to hear these bands, your Sunn O)))s and Mastadons and Neuroses, thanks to the high ceilings, the grimy feel, the liberal approach to volume, the conservative approach to stage lighting, the words "Masonic" and "Temple.") The miniseries-length "From Beyond" is like a portable natural disaster, ebbing and flowing, a super-brooding trudge that powers down to a soft, almost gentle interlude (Roeder tapping cymbals with his bare hands) and then inevitably supernovas into an extinction-level event, with Pike's wildest and most eruptive solo of the night as punctuation. The cops didn't even bother showing up to gawk at this one, most likely because they were completely terrified. Their loss, your hearing loss. -[Village Voice]A second set of pictures from night one, as well as more pics from night two are below....

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hadn't heard this in so long til it came on kday yesterday. love the soft spoken style and the loose sampling. classic video too.

Something about the live jamming and squishy vibes is doing it for me. Fresh synth salsa all over these Nachos. Mind World

Trippy little animation involving a tour of a supermarket (in a tour bus). The music is awesome and the animation is . . .

possibly the only music video that matters

"Now in its fifth year, the Brooklyn Book Festival is one of the top book festivals in the nation with a hip, huge and free all-star literary lineup!

Come see Salman Rushdie, Venus Williams, Sarah Silverman, Paul Krugman, Dennis Lehane, Paul Auster, Naomi Klein, Gary Shteyngart, Rosanne Cash, Jennifer Egan, John Ashbery, Nelson George, Mary Gaitskill, Colson Whitehead, Francine Prose, Esmeralda Santiago, Pete Hamill, Russell Banks, Michael Connelly, John Hodgman, Kristen Schaal, Sam Lipsyte, Sloane Crosley, Paul Harding and over 200 more! Plus children's and young adult lit stars like Rebecca Stead, Sara Shepard, Jacqueline Woodson, Jon Scieszka, Jenny Han, Tad Hills, and Francisco X. Stork! Click here for festival program schedule."

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today in NYC
* Howl Festival
* Interpol @ MHOW
* Fashion's Night Out
* Steve Swell @ Roulette
* Lewis Nash @ The Stone
* Violens, Beige @ Coco 66
* Nasheet Waits @ The Stone
* John Prine @ Governors Island
* DJ Bob Mould @ Highline Ballroom
* Sonny Rollins @ Beacon Theatre
* Hidden Fees, Mazing Vids @ Zebulon
* Darlings, Christmas, Mermaids @ Union Pool
* Josh Rouse & Sophie Madeleine @ Joe's Pub
* Colour Revolt, Turbo Fruits @ Mercury Lounge
* Toubab Krewe, Eclectic Method @ Brooklyn Bowl
* Drums of Death, JDH & Dave P @ Public Assembly
* Forgetters, Bells, Pregnant, These Days @ Cake Shop
* Turbo Meat, Ex-humans, Liquor Store @ Death By Audio
* The Soft Pack, Beach Fossils, Sundelles @ Bowery Ballroom
* The Art of Shooting, Elsinore, My Other Friend @ Union Hall
* Thomas Function, PC Worship, Knight School @ Monster Island
* Twin Sister, Holiday Shores, Distractions, Ava Luna @ Bruar Falls
* Caspian, Slow Six, American Dollar @ The Studio at Webster Hall
* Dither, Kyle Bobby Dunn @ First Presbyterian Church of Brooklyn
* Pet Ghost Project, MiniBoone, Gunfight!, Quiet Loudly @ Cameo Gallery
* La La Brooks, Jenny Dee & The Deelinquents, Nouvellas @ The Bell House
* Vijay Iyer, Matana Roberts (Undead Jazz Fest) @ Le Poisson Rouge
* Janka Nabay, Unicornicopia, Banana Clipz, Telethon, Machinedrum @ Silent Barn
* Neckbeard Telecaster, Brooklyn Ladies Auxiliary Choir, Austin McCutchen, Rachel Lipson & the Tip Top Band @ Glasslands

soul music at The Bell House tonight.

Governors Island is back on the map with two big shows there this weekend, both with plenty of tickets still available: the legendary John Prine (pictured above) tonight, and Panda Bear tomorrow.

Fashion's Night Out has Metric playing in a store, and many other fashion-related events happening tonight.

Speaking of big bands in small venues: Interpol @ MHOW and Twin Sister & Holiday Shores @ Bruar Falls.

What else?

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The schedule is at their website.

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Two big names of the 90s alt scene, Juliana Hatfield and Evan Dando, will band together again as "Juliana & Evan" and play a pair of shows at Mercury Lounge on Wednesday, 9/29 and Thursday, 9/30. The 2nd show with The Candles is sold out, but the 9/29 show with The Shining Twins is on sale NOW.

Juliana has taken to making custom songs to order as of late, while The Lemonheads (Evan Dando's band) relased Varshons on The End Records last year.

Full Evan Dando/Lemonheads dates are below, as well as some video.

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"On September 10th, 2010, VOGUE, Mayor Bloomberg, NYC & Company and the CFDA will team up for a second time to bring you Fashion's Night Out. The goal of the Fashion's Night Out is to celebrate fashion and retail."Fashion's Night Out means lots of shopping happening all over the city, and lots of special events. A full list is at the official website, and here are a few highlights...

Metric is playing at Juicy Couture' Fifth Avenue Flagship store at 8:30PM. They are also playing a fashion show on Monday.

Joss Stone is playing in Nine West (5th Ave and 53rd Street).

VV Brown is playing the Teen Vogue and ASOS.com's Fashion's Night Out Block Party. "The event will be held on Bleecker St (btwn Perry and W. 4th) in NYC 6-11pm."

"As part of Vogue's "Fashion Night Out" Bear Hands will be playing at Rockefeller Center tonight, September 10. The show kicks off at 6:30 and previous to Bear Hand's set at 9pm Savoir Adore and Brahms will be playing. The stage is set up between 49th and 50th street and 5th and 6th Avenue."

"My Gold Mask will be premiering "I Don't Need The Reason" live during their performance at the Phillip Lim store for Fashion's Night Out in New York City today on Friday, September 10."

Dan Black is performing an acoustic set at Saks at 9:30pm, and DJing at Dior Homme from 7-9.

Karen Elson will play at 9pm at Balenciaga, West 22 Street, between Tenth and Eleventh Avenues.

Mick Rock is taking pictures at the Varvatos store.

"We will also have a live acoustic performance by British band Ramona at the Spring Street Burberry store."

Andrew Wyatt from Miike Snow is DJing a Theory party at 40 Gansevoort Street.

What else?

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by BBG

Suffocation

The tongue-wagging vocalist Frank Mullen will return to NYC, as NYDM gods Suffocation, The Faceless, and Decrepit Birth will team up with Fleshgod Apocalypse and Through The Eyes Of The Dead to soil Gramercy Theater on 10/16. Tickets are on sale. The show is part of a greater tour for the bands dubbed the Decibel Defiance tour. Full dates are below.

And while we're on the subject of classic 90s death metal, Incantation have announced that Mortician, Fatalist (who we profiled here), and Funerus will open the NYC show at Rebel on 11/20. Ticket info still unavailable. The show will be part of a short stint of dates for Incantation, Fatalist, and Funerus.

All dates and some videos below...

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by BBG

Now that Shonen Knife have revisited their LPs Free Time and 2007's fun! fun! fun! to give them the English workover complete with bonus tracks (order them), the Japanese band are about to invade our shores with their overtly cutesy Japanese pop-punk. The tour kicked off 9/8 in Seattle and will bring the band to NYC on 9/25 at The Asia Society (tickets) and 9/28 at Knitting Factory with Hard Nips and Grooms (tickets). All dates below.

If you can't make it to a show, you can at least pick up the band's new DVD Live At Mohawk Place. The live video was recorded in Buffalo, NY at Mohawk Place and features 18 songs, including one with original member Atsuko, and exclusive interview footage. Order a copy via the label.

Video from that DVD, some other video from two nights ago, and all tour dates are below...

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DOWNLOAD: Black Milk - "Closed Chapter" featuring Mr Porter (MP3)

With Album of The Year due on Tuesday (9/14), Detroit MC Black Milk is opening this new chapter, with the release of "Closed Chapter" featuring Mr. Porter. Download it above. The soulful guitar loops, incredible drum fills with the requisite dryer-than-the-Arabian-desert snare, and R&B hook compliments a bouncy verse from Black Milk, and proves that dude still has it. Look for the album Tuesday and stream it all now courtesy NPR!

Reminder, Black Milk will perform in NYC TUESDAY (9/14) at Southpaw with Sean Price, Guilty Simpson, Elzhi (of Slum Village), and the incredible DJ Spinna. Tickets are still available.

Show flyer and Black Milk's recent (and uncensored) video for "Deadly Medley" is below.

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Dan Cho
DANIEL CHO BENEFIT/TRIBUTE
Featuring Regina Spektor / Carina Round / Cooper / Jenny Owen Youngs / Jupiter One / Only Son / Rachel Platten / The Candles / Tracy Bonham / Wes Hutchinson
A Tribute Concert for Daniel Cho: Artists gather to honor a brilliant musician and to help support his family.

Venue: Music Hall of Williamsburg
Date: Mon 9/27
Notes: 18+
Doors: 7:00 PM / Show: 8:00 PM
$35 advance / $35 day of showRegina Spektor will headline the above-described Daniel Cho benefit. Daniel Cho was a cellist that tragically drowned in a lake this summer while on tour in Europe with Regina. Tickets go on sale at noon.

Regina Spektor is also involved in the New Yorker Festival this year. All tickets for that fest also go on sale at noon.

Tickets are now on sale for the Dresden Dolls Halloween show at Irving Plaza.

Underworld tickets go on sale at noon.

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