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Seth Meyers As Jimmy Fallon will take over The Tonight Show next year (and moving it back to NYC at rumored ), the Late Night slot will go to current SNL "Weekend Update" anchor Seth Meyers , reports the New York Times : In an interview before taking the stage on Saturday's edition of "SNL," Mr. Meyers said: "Working at 'SNL' requires 100 percent of your mental capacity -- on easy weeks. And so I had not really spent a [...]

According to a tweet by the girlfriend of the legendary Pogues vocalist with one of the most unintelligible accents this side of Mark E Smith, Shane MacGowan is currently looking for new dentist to help shape up his mangled mouth of snaggleteeth "so he can star in Hollywood film." Interested dentists can apply by responding on twitter, with word that "Shane promises to do advertising campaign for the winning dentist" if chosen. You have your work cut out for you, whoever you are. McGowan's choppers are legendary, and onetime tourmate Mojo Nixon once wrote a [...]

LA Fest FYF Fest is celebrating 10 years this year, and will take over Los Angeles State Historic Park on August 24 & 25 . Check out the massive lineup in the poster above, and in alphabetical order below... Continue reading "FYF Fest 2013 Lineup (My Bloody Valentine included)" at brooklynvegan

Superchunk @ CBGB's Fest 2012 ( more by Chris La Putt ) With 2010's terrific comeback album, Magesty Shredding still ringning in some of our ears, Superchunk have just announced its follow-up. I Hate Music is their 10th full-length and will be out August 20. You can watch a trailer below for the record featuring snippets from a couple tracks off the LP. Superchunk will also be on tour following the album's release, including two nights at NYC's [...]

Greg Broussard, better known by his stage name Egyptian Lover , is an American musician, vocalist, producer and DJ, and was an important part of the L.A. dance music and rap scene in the early 1980s... The Egyptian Lover started out as a DJ in Los Angeles with Uncle Jam's Army DJing dances as large as the L.A. Sports Arena with 10,000 people. He began recording around Los Angeles in 1982 as a member of the Radio Crew, and also Uncle Jam's Army. In the early days of hip hop albums were rare, so most of The Egyptian Lover's [...]

by Bill Pearis Have gone through the kind of myriad line-up changes that actually inspired a book , Mark E. Smith's soapbox/band The Fall have just released their 30th (!!!) studio album, titled Re-Mit , which came out today in the UK on Cherry Red. Says The Guardian : Re-Mit begins with a minute of blithe, bubblegum indie-bop so generic you have to double-check you're listening to the Fall. It's [...]

photos by Chris Gersbeck Trash Talk / Cities Aviv @ Cake Shop, 5/11/2013 Trash Talk did their part to bring chaos to the Downtown Music Festival , crowdsurfing the low-ceilings of Cake Shop on Saturday (5/11) as part of a show with Cities Aviv , Low Fat Getting High and The Shackletons . The show was rather pricey for a typical [...]

photos by Jonathon Bernstein ; words by Bill Pearis DIIV / LODRO @ Mercury Lounge, 5/11/2013 It was the kind of line-up you might see at Shea Stadium or 285 Kent, but Brooklyn crossed the bridge on Saturday night for the Downtown Music Festival on Saturday night (5/11). Well some of its bands did at least, specifically DIIV , LODRO , Xray Eyeballs and [...]

FLAG , comprised of former Black Flag-ers and Descendents Keith Morris, Chuck Dukowski, Dez Cadena, Bill Stevenson and Stephen Egerton, will play a series of precision strikes this summer and fall. Weekends shows and festivals will be the band's MO thus far, hitting Orion , Punk Rock Bowling , NXNE , FYF Fest and more, but do include a string of East Coast dates in September. Look for FLAG to hit NYC on September 19 at Irving Plaza . Tickets go on presale on Wednesday (5/15) at 10 [...]

photos by Jonathon Bernstein Shout Out Louds @ Webster Hall, 5/10/2013 Shout Out Louds played their second NYC show in two months on Friday night (5/10) at Webster Hall. The poppy Swedes -- who also played one of the BV day parties at SXSW this year -- are in the midst of a North American tour supporting their tuneful new album, Optica , but made time for [...]

by Toby Tenenbaum Purity Ring @ Bowery Ballroom, 5/11/2013 Still flying on the fuel of their acclaimed debut, Montreal's Purity Ring delivered a memorable 50 minute performance for the Downtown Music Festival ) crowd at Bowery Ballroom on Saturday. (The fest's shirts just called it "DTF.") The Canadian synthpop duo played the majority of the tracklist off of 2012 release Shrines . The double encore featured their [...]

In Liam's own words: LIAM McENEANEY : LIVE IN BROOKLYN: AN ALBUM TAPING JUNE 5th: WITH ROB PARAVONIAN & JANEANE GAROFALO TICKETS: http://www.ticketweb.com/t3/sa le/SaleEventDetail?dispatch=lo adSelectionData&eventId=354910 4 JUNE 6th: WITH ROB PARAVONIAN & JIM GAFFIGAN TICKETS: http://www.ticketweb.com/t3/sa le/SaleEventDetail?dispatch=lo adSelectionData&eventId=354918 4 at Union Hall 702 Union Street, Brooklyn DOORS: 7:30 SHOW: 8:00 TICKETS: $8.00 Liam is recording his debut album with [...]

photos by Amanda Hatfield "I am in a band with my sister called CocoRosie. We sing and dance and play instruments. In one sentence I can't seem to sum up anything. We are about to release our fifth album. We have been a band for 10 years." [ Bianca to The Independent ] Cocorosie will head out on a month-long European tour later this month (dates below), but first they played a one-off hometown [...]

Phoenix at Coachella 2013 ( more by Dana (distortion) Yavin ) today in NYC * Whiplash @ UCB * TEEN @ Ace Hotel * Jon Rose @ The Stone * John Zorn @ The Stone * Beaty Heart @ Cake Shop * Stephane Wrembel @ Barbes * Dessa, F. Stokes @ SubCulture * Dark [...]

by Andrew Sacher DOWNLOAD: Ed Schrader's Music Beat - "Radio Eyes" (MP3) Baltimore floor tom/bass guitar duo Ed Schrader's Music Beat released the impressive Jazz Mind LP last year, and as mentioned , this year they contributed a track to the excellent Sub Pop 1000 compilation. Their track is the post-punk ripper "Radio Eyes," which shifts back [...]

• Ed Shrader's Music Beat - Radio Eyes

by Andrew Sacher Black Hippy at Downtown Music Festival in NYC (via @me_acosta ) The Downtown Music Festival , which is coming to multiple North American cities this year, kicked off its first one in NYC on Friday (5/10) across various LES venues. The biggest highlight of the artists I saw was the Black Hippy crew, who went on at Capitale at around 1:30 AM. All four guys, [...]

Vampire Weekend on SNL - 5/11/13 Vampire Weekend are about to release their excellent new album, Modern Vampires of the City , this week (5/14) via XL (have you streamed it ?), and ahead of that release they made their return to Saturday Night Live last night (5/11) . They performed two of the new album's cuts, "Diane Young" and "Unbelievers." Kristen Wiig hosted. You can watch videos of both performances below. Next week (5/18) it's [...]

Marissa Nadler at Music Hall of Williamsburg in February ( more by Caroline Harrison ) today in NYC * Decay @ The Stone * ASSSSCAT 3000 @ UCB * Sun Ladders @ Ace Hotel * Blake Pfeil @ Joe's Pub * Stephane Wrembel @ Barbes * Terry Radigan @ Joe's Pub * The N'Harmonics @ Joe's Pub * [...]

• Katy B - What Love Is Made Of [radio edit]

Ghost BC @ Coachella 2013 ( more by Wei Shi ) The Orwells @ Bowery Ballroom on Thursday ( more by Dominick Mastrangelo ) today in NYC * Opera On Tap @ Barbes * Tim Berne/7 @ The Stone * Trixie Whitley @ Maxwell's * TEETH @ Secret Project Room * Plastic Plates, DJ Sober @ Le Bain [...]

We just mentioned that Lauryn Hill was sentenced to jail in NJ for not paying income tax (did you write a letter to the judge on her behalf ?), and now comes word that she'll make a bit more income by playing a show at Brooklyn's Music Hall of Williamsburg on Tuesday, May 14 (four days from now!). Tickets , which are $85+fees (or $100 on the day of the show) go on sale Saturday (May 11) at noon. "200 VIP meet & greet tickets" are also available, [...]