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Barnes & Noble Inc. expects to close as many as a third of its retail stores over the next decade, the bookseller's top store executive said, offering the most detailed picture yet of the company's plans for the outlets. "In 10 years we'll have 450 to 500 stores," said Mitchell Klipper, chief executive of Barnes & Noble's retail group, in an interview last week. The company operated 689 retail stores as of Jan. 23, along with a separate chain of 674 college stores. [ WSJ.com ] Barnes and Noble NYC February 2013 [...]

Feb 27 Dead Leaf Echo Buy Tickets Amex presale ends: Fri, 02/01/13 11:00 AM Mercury Lounge New York, NY 09:30 PM Buy Tickets Amex presale ends: Fri, 02/01/13 11:00 AM [...]

Nikki & Sara Live (Tuesdays @ 11 on MTV) The new show from comedians, Nikki Glaser and Sara Schaefer , Nikki & Sara Live , premieres tonight at 11PM ET on MTV. I know it's a talk show, and I know it's live (like Andy Cohen live I believe), and Ke$ha is the first guest, but other than that, I'll be tuning in to find out more just like you. Huge congrats again [...]

Stephen Tobolowsky Presents The Dangerous Animals Club (Feb 16, 2013) As some of you may recall, last year, at about this time, famed character actor Stephen Tobolowsky brought a live version The Tobolowsky Files to The Bell House. Since then, a couple of things have happened, Stephen's podcast was picked up by PRI and is now and nationally syndicated public radio show, and he published a well received book of stories called The Dangerous Animals Club . As some of you [...]

Deap Vally at Bowery Ballroom (CMJ 2012) Photo : Jon Klemm LA's Deap Vally , who caused a bit of a stir at CMJ 2012, have just announced that their 4 song debut EP, Get Deap , will be released on April 9 via Cherrytree/Interscope. The EP was produced by Lars Stalfors (The Mars Volta, Matt and Kim, and Funeral Party). The lead single "Lies" is now available as a single on the iTunes and the video for it just debuted on [...]

Coachella 2013 The lineup for Coachella 2013 has been announced with The Stone Roses, Blur, Phoenix , and The Red Hot Chili Peppers are splitting headlining duties for the multi-weekend festival. In my opinion, the headliners this year are a little underwhelming (especially the brotastic RHCP), but as with always, there are a million other bands on the bill that are worth the trip. Coachella 2013 will take on April 12th-14th and 19th-21st, at Empire Polo Grounds in Indio, California. Full [...]

Governors Ball 2013 The lineup for the 2013 Governors Ball ( June 7-9, 2013 ) has been announced, and dare I say it, but it's pretty darn impressive looking. Early Bird tickets ($190) go on sale Friday, Jan 25 at 12PM EST. Watch the pretty hilarious lineup announcement video after the jump. Governors Ball 2013 Lineup Kanye West, Kings Of Leon, TBA, Nas, Pretty Lights, The [...]

Feb 12 AV / Strip Darling Buy Tickets Amex presale begins: Wed, 01/23/13 12:00 PM Mercury Lounge New York, NY 09:30 PM Buy Tickets Amex presale begins: Wed, 01/23/13 12:00 PM [...]

Red Baraat Formed in 2008, Red Baraat is a pioneering eight-piece band from Brooklyn, New York. Conceived by Sunny Jain, the group has drawn worldwide praise for its singular sound - a merging of hard driving North Indian bhangra rhythms with elements of jazz, go-go, brass funk, and hip-hop. Created with no less a purposeful agenda than manifesting joy and unity in all people, Red Baraat’s spirit is worn brightly on its sweaty and hard-worked sleeve. And is being returned to them in cities all over the world, as word [...]

The Postal Service In a December 2008 interview with Rolling Stone, Gibbard laughed off suggestions that The Postal Service's long overdue follow-up to their 2003 hit Give Up is an indie version of Guns N' Roses' Chinese Democracy . Gibbard said that both he and Tamborello do not see it as a priority in light of their main projects, Death Cab for Cutie and Dntel. He said, "The anticipation of the second record has been a far bigger deal for everybody except the two of us... I don't know [...]

Ra Ra Riot - Beta Love Stream : Ra Ra Riot - Beta Love With their third full length set to drop next week, Ra Ra Riot is currently offering a full stream of the forthcoming Beta Love right now at via their YouTube Channel . The band is set to play a sold out show at Webster Hall on Jan 25 , but they also just announced a [...]

Thurston Moore of Sonic Youth at Prospect Park (07/31/10) Photo : Chris Becker Jr. ( more ) On March 5 (March 4 in Europe), Matador will be releasing Chelsea Light Moving’s eponymous 1st full-length LP/CD/digital album. Until this point, the Thurston Moore-spearheaded quartet (see the bio below) have dropped periodic MP3′s on the unsuspecting populace, along with road testing their live show in locations as far flung as Gothenberg, Sweden and Denver, CO. Their first U.S. tour commences Sat., March 2, at Hoboken, NJ’s Maxwell’s. [...]

The National at The Studio at Webster Hall (02/08/11) Photo : Jon Klemm ( more ) While the boys from The National have yet to announce the details on their follow-up LP to the stellar High Violet , they have just announced their first show of the new year; which will be a little gathering at the house that Hova built on June 5, 2013 . There is a a fan presale tomorrow (Jan 16) at 11am EST, the password is AmericanMary [...]

Esben and the Witch at The FADER Fort SXSW 2011 Photo : Jon Klemm On January 22 in the U.S. and January 21 in the UK, ghostly Brighton trio Esben and the Witch will release their new album Wash the Sins Not Only the Face , the follow up to their Violet Cries album and Hexagons EP, via Matador. [ Pitchfork.com ] Also, as of right now, you can [...]

Villagers Watch : "Nothing Arrived" - Villagers Stream : "The Waves" - Villagers Aside from the Monday/Tuesday thing, I'll never fully understand the nuances of staggered international release dates. Having said that, {Awayland} , the new album from Ireland's Villagers (aka Conor O'Brien) arrived today Ireland, the UK and Europe. Those of us stateside will have to "wait patiently" until the album's April 9 North American release via Domino [...]

Kroll Show Good news comedy fans, if you're handy with a computer, you can watch a sneak preview of Nick Kroll 's eponymous Kroll Show right now. The full first episode is currently available for stream/download via comedycentral.com , hulu , itunes , amazon instant and xbox live . Based on the uninspired commercials, I had a few doubts about Nick's new show, but I just watched episode 1 and it's actually pretty [...]

Amazon Autorip Personally, I never understood why people went out of their way to purchase a digital copy of an album on iTunes for $9.99 when they could usually get the same CD for less money on amazon and just rip their own MP3s. These days though the CD has almost become an anathema; people don't want the physical object any more, let alone spend the extra five minutes it might take to rip it into MP3 format. That's why I give the big thumbs up to Amazon for implementing the new [...]

Foals Foals new album Holy Fire will be released February 12 via Warner Bros Records. (Note the split with original US label Sub Pop.) dear americans! want to hear HOLY FIRE? we'll be at figure 19 in NYC this monday the 14th) from 7-10pm, and will be spinning the album and then djing, and screening the making-of-album documentary. no RSVP needed, just show up and buy us manhattans. [...]

Summerstage Preview at Highline Ballroom (01/09/12) There's a Summerstage Preview show tonight at The Highline Ballroom with Shuggie Otis, People Get Ready, Ofei, Joshua Nelson , and DJ Kool Herc ( Buy Tickets ). If the past is any indication, that means one (or more) of these artists will be appearing druing the 2013 Summerstage season. (Last year's Highline event featured Gregory Porter and Bebel Gilberto ; Bebel played the Rumsey Playfied and Gregory was in the lineup for the Charlie Parker [...]

Brooklyn Festival (Apr 16-22) Because Brooklyn boosterism is in decline, our friends on the West Coast have decided to the fete the Borough of Kings with a week long music festival in our honor. The Brooklyn Festival will feature such BK based musical luminaries as Sufjan Stevens, Bryce Dessner, Nico Muhly, The Antlers and Chairlift , just to name a few. Location has always figured prominently in the world of art and music. For today’s most forward-thinking music-lovers, Brooklyn [...]