Pylon Sounds

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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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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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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Things have been pretty quiet in the 20 Jazz Funk Dates office since we launched a few weeks ago. The phone rings never with the silence of a firing squad’s post-coital epitaph, and our inbox is deader than the crims they just shot. What’s wrong with people these days? Is everyone shacked up already? Were [...]

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The first humans were born not only into an ice age, but also a world filled with worse air pollution than our cities have ever produced. (This has to do a giant meteor striking the Earth, but there isn’t time to go into that now, okay!) Now, I’m not saying this must have been a [...]

When we started our journey we never meant to be a blog focussed solely on new music, indeed, it was our original purpose to establish connections between the musics of the past, and those novel efforts that they informed and inspired, like a psyche-historical account of the evolution of the sounds that make us go [...]

Here lies the second part of our series of podcasts made by people called Joe who live in Berlin. Joey Hansom is one of many Capablanca collaborators and part of the workings a behind the Discos Capablanca label.  He is also doing the most excellent Expatriarch Webseite and is most definitely a dude that you want to [...]

Xander Harris kindly sent us a track from his (Brian Keene referencing) new album Urban Gothic. The pragmatically named Opening Credits doesn’t dally for long with the tough bubbling synths before dropping a huge 4/4 drum sequence over the top.  The drum sequence doesn’t get its own way for long before Chris Carter sends over [...]

Right now we are at the chrysalis stage, an as yet undisclosed shape metamorphosing inside a pulsating cocoon, perhaps to become Slake Moths, feast on human, animal and xenian souls, and shit bad dreams over the spires of New Crobuzon. Or maybe something else. Stare at the black slate that we are and wonder what [...]

Theorizing that one could time travel within their own lifetime, 20jazzfunkgreats led an elite group of scientists into the desert to develop a top-secret project known as Quantum Leap. Pressured to prove their theories or lose funding, 20jazzfunkgreats prematurely stepped into the project accelerator, and vanished. They awoke to find themselves in the past, suffering [...]