Flaming Lips @ Sassquatch Festival 2008 ( more by Chris Graham ) tonight in NYC * DANCE * The Feelies @ Southpaw * Allen Toussaint @ Joe's Pub * Brent Arnold, Haale @ Zebulon * Richard Hell (reading) @ New Museum * Moving Sounds Fest @ (Le) Poisson Rouge * All Tomorrow's Parties @ Kutshers Country Club * [...]

As PJ mentioned in the Sunday Shuffle, he's not making it down to SXSW for the third year in a row. That is no longer the case. While he continues to collect his thoughts and thank yous (and I retract any comments that I made about him being lame), I'll let you know about the one and only place where you're guaranteed to find me during the week, and that's the second annual DC Does TX Party. We're at Friends Bar on Wednesday the 18th and I'm basically going to copy the top ten reasons from our Facebook events page [...]

today in NYC * DANCE * Terror @ Europa * NY Times Arts & Leisure * The Lisps @ Zipper Theater * Mos Def @ Highline Ballroom * Forro in the Dark @ Joe's Pub * World/Inferno Friendship Society @ Webster Hall * Afterworlds, Gates of Heaven & Apple Deaf @ Cake Shop * Endless Boogie, Psychic Ills & Mike [...]

Just a quick heads up about a nice offering from Modiba Publishing. They have online a 16-track sampler of music, ranging from West African and Iran to Brazil and New Orleans. You can download -- free! -- individual tracks or the complete album. One-click full album download at: www.modiba.net/pub The Swarm - Noble Society (Guyana, USA) Barap Barap [...]

Just a quick heads up about a nice offering from Modiba Publishing. They have online a 16-track sampler of music, ranging from West African and Iran to Brazil and New Orleans. You can download -- free! -- individual tracks or the complete album. One-click full album download at: www.modiba.net/pub The Swarm - Noble Society (Guyana, USA) Barap Barap [...]

It's that time of year again, when bands both big and small converge upon New York City for a debaucherous , music-filled five days...that's right we're talking about the 2008 CMJ Music Marathon. Spanning Oct. 21 to Oct. 25, there's just too much to see. We'll do our best...this isn't our full time job. Come on! (in Gob voice.) Stark has enjoyed watching certain acts from all over the nation strive for immediate, Black Kids-like fame. Alas, they're not all that lucky. From Nashville to Chicago to NYC, Stark has highlighted [...]

(I apologize for this being late. Hopefully I'll get back on track). Haale, " Home Again " (Not a direct link. This goes to the page where you can download the song). I'm a little late on this bandwagon. I'm kind of like a musical savant--I can find these incredible, little-known masterpieces, and then sometimes I "discover" these well-known masterpieces and think I'm the first in line. It's the nature of being stuck in my own world, I guess :) "Home Again" incorporates the purple haze of the mind meld experiments of the [...]