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Mates of State is celebrating the release of their latest masterpiece Bring It Back with a free show at the Virgin Megastore in Union Square tonight at 7:00 PM.

Thanks Jess:

8/10 Devotchka, Clap Your Hands Say Yeah - South Street Seaport (Free Show)

8/11 Need New Body, Pit Er Pat – Knitting Factory

8/12 Meneguar, Captain Ahab – Tommy’s Tavern
8/12 Smog – Bowery
8/12 Au Revoir Simone – Rothko

8/13 Mobius Band, Elkland, Charles Bissel (of The Wrens) – Secret Location
8/13 Brian Wilson – Jones Beach
8/13 The Pernice Brothers – Bowery
8/13 Oxford Collapse – Glasshouse Gallery
8/13 Diplo – Knitting Factory
8/13 Silver Mt. Zion – Southpaw

8/14 My Best Fiend – Cake Shap
8/14 Oxford Collapse, Mommy and Daddy – Scenic

8/15 Prepwar Yardsale, Chris Richards (of Q and not U) – 169 Bar
8/15 Kimya Dawson – Scenic

8/16 Dirty Projectors – Glasshouse Gallery
8/16 Holly Go Lightly – North Six
8/16 Elk City – Pianos

8/17 Smoosh- Knitting Factory

8/18 Death Cab for Cutie, The Decemberists, Stars – Central Park Summerstage (Sold out)
8/18 Magnolia Electric Co., Grand Buffet – South Paw
8//18 Holly Golightly, Syd Matters – Mercury Lounge

8/19 Sufjan Stevens,, Smoosh, Half-Handed Cloud – Bowery (sold out)
8/19 Hockey Night – South Street Seaport
8/19 Magnolia Electric Co., Grand Buffet – Knitting Factory
8/19 J+J+J – Lit
8/19 Enon – Mercury Lounge

8/20 Sufjan Stevens, The Castanets – Bowery (sold out)
8/20 Wooden Wand and the Vanishing Voice, Akron/Family – East River Ampitheater
8/20 Hockey Night, The Jim Yoshii Pile-Up, Hopewell, the High Dials, Syd Matters – Mercury Lounge
8/20 Gil Mantera’s Party Dream - Southpaw

8/21 Sufjan Stevens, Liz Janes, Bunky – Bowery (sold out)

8/22 Sufjan Stevens, Bunky – Bowery (sold out)
8/22 Langhorne Slim – Knitting Factory

8/23 Sufjan Stevens , Danielson Famile – Bowery

8/24 Kinski – Mercury Loung
8/24 The Double, Cass McCombs – South Street Seaport

8/25 Jesse Malin – Bowery
8/25 Mosquitos, Palomar – Mercury Lounge

8/26 Ted Leo & the Pharmacists, I Am Kloot – South Street Seaport
8/26 Les Savy Fav, Thunderbirds Are Now! – Bowery
8/26 Burmese – Flight of the Buffalo
8/26 Bobby Conn – Rothko

8/27 Of Montreal – North Six

8/28 Skeletons and the Girl-Faced Boys – Knitting Factory (old office)

8/30 American Analog Set – Joe’s Pub
8/30 Koufax – Knitting Factory
8/30 Langhorne Slim – Rothko

8/31 Measles Mumps Rubella, Old Haunts - Northsix

Looking for something to do on Tuesday, July 19th? Head on over to Rothko (116 Suffolk St.) and check out some of the finest NYC bands around celebrate the VICIOUS 2nd anniversary party: PS, The Harlem Shakes, Surefire, The Soft Explosions and The IO’s.

In the meantime, check out “Vena Cava” (mp3) by PS and revel in its beauty.

Thanks as usual to Jess!

7/4 Yo La Tengo, Stephen Malkmus, Laura Cantrell – The Law of Battery Park

7/5 Death Vessel - Scenic (Ave B btw 2nd and 3rd)
7/5 Erik Friedlander – Knitting Factory Old Office

7/7 Clem Snide – Castle Clinton
7/7 Panthers – Northsix
7/7 Von Bondies, World Leader Pretend – Pier 54

7/8 The Double, Cass McCombs – South Street Seaport
7/8 Vietnam, The Winter pageant – Tonic
7/8 The Constantines, Oxford Collapse - Tonic

7/9 The Constantines, Oxford Collapse – Southpaw
7/9 The Winter Pageant – Tonic
7/9 Cass McCombs, Love as laughter – North Six
7/9 The Peppermints – Llano Estacado
7/9 Bishop Allen, We are Scientists – Mercury Lounge

7/10 The Peppermints, Grizzly Bear, Excepter - Rothko
7/10 Sir Richard Bishop (of Sun City Girls), Akron/Family – Glasshouse Gallery
7/10 Emperor X – Cake Show
7/10 Eames Era – Pianos

7/11 Hockey Night, Detachment Kit – 169 Bar

7/12 Son Volt – Bowery
7/12 Erik Friedlander – Knitting Factory Old Office

7/13 The Bravery – Webster Hall
7/13 Royksopp – Irving Plaza

7/14 Dinosaur Jr., Broken Social Scene, Radio 4 – Central park Summerstage
7/14 Tegan and Sara – Webster Hall
7/14 Calexico – Castle Clinton
7/14 Wovenhand, Brother Danielson – Knitting Factory
7/14 Son Volt – South Street Seaport
7/14 Ceasars, The Sights – SouthPaw
7/14 Dungen – Maxwells (SOLD OUT)
7/14 ps / Morning Theft - North Six

7/15 Japanther – Tonic
7/15 The Ponys, Chin Up Chin Up – Rothko
7/15 Hidden Cameras, Dressy Bessy, Say Hi To Your Mom – Bowery

7/16 DUNGEN @ Mercury Lounge (Listed as TA DET LUGNT)
7/16 Sir Richard Bishop (of Sun City Girls), Akron/Family – Tonic
7/16 My Robot Friend – Sin-e
7/16 Spoon, Mates of State, Brendan Benson, VHS or Beta, Dungen, Q and Not U, The Dears, etc. – SIREN FESTIVAL @ CONEY ISLAND

7/16 Controller.Controller – Rothko

7/17 Brazilian Girls – Central Park Summerstage
7/17 Nicolai Dunger – joe’s Pub
7/17 Washington Social Club – Mercury Lounge

7/19 Erik Friedlander – Knitting Factory Old Office
7/19 PS - Rothko

7/20 Dirty on Purpose, Clap Your Hands Say Yeah, Saints and Lovers - Southpaw
7/20 Wooden Wand and the Vanishing Voice, Castanets - Tonic
7/20 Maria Taylor of Azure Ray, Statistics – Knitting Factory
7/20 Keren Ann – Bowery

7/21 Kaiser Chiefs – Bowery
7/21 M. Ward – Castle Clinton
7/21 Shout Out Louds – Webster Hall

7/22 Teenage Fanclub, The Rosebuds – Bowery
7/22 Lightning Bolt – Tonic
7/22 Shout Out Louds – Webster Hall

7/23 Teenage Fanclub, The Rosebuds – Bowery

7/25 Gravy Train – Knitting Factory

7/27 Coco Rosie – Joe’s Pub
7/27 Regina Spektor – Tonic
7/27 Clap Your Hands Say Yeah – Mercury Lounge (SOLD OUT)

7/28 Antony and the Johnsons – Town Hall
7/28 Cheeseburger – Mercury Lounge
7/28 Other Passengers – Cake Shop

7/29 Skeletons & the Girl-Faced Boys - Tonic
7/29 Oneida – Tonic
7/29 The Dirtboms, The Flesh, The Tralala – knitting Factory

7/30 MC5 – Central park Summer Stage
7/30 Oxford Collapse, Bishop Allen, Oneida – East River Ampitheater
7/30 Brian Jonestown Massacre – Bowery Ballroom
7/30 Jason Lowenstein (of Sebadoh) – North Six

7/31 Brian Jonestown Massacre – Bowery Ballroom

Our neighbors up north have decided to get in on the Live 8 action by holding a concert of their own. Some of those scheduled to perform are Barenaked Ladies, Bryan Adams, Deep Purple, Motley Crue, Our Lady Peace, Simple Plan, Tegan & Sara, The Tragically Hip and Tom Cochrane.

Free health care, mounted police and now a better show then us?! What’s going on here?

So what do you do when one crappy act (50 Cent) drops off the Live 8 Philly show? Add another crappy act to replace it! That’s what the organizers did today when they added Linkin Park to the already awful lineup that we in the U.S. will be subjected to.

In case you forgot (or blocked it out), some of those slated to perform the American set are: Destiny’s Child, Jay-Z, Kaiser Chiefs, Keith Urban, Maroon 5, P Diddy, and Rob Thomas. Will Smith will be the host.

If you missed either of the two NIN
shows at Hammerstein a short while ago, you’ll have a second chance to
see Trent Reznor and Co. as they’ve announced a Fall Tour that will see
them play Madison Square Garden on November 3.

Queens of the Stone Age will be the support act.

The rest of the tour dates can be found here.

Sigur Rós will be embarking on a world tour this summer and making
stops in the US mainland starting September 6th in Atlanta. (They will
be in Honolulu on August 8, which is coincidentally enough, my
birthday, so if you’re strapped for present ideas, a trip to Hawaii to
see Sigur Rós would be an idea!) They will be hitting the Beacon
Theater in NYC for two nights: September 12 and 13.

The complete tour schedule can be found here.

Wow. As if the London show for Live 8 wasn’t amazing enough already
(Coldplay, The Killers, Velvet Revolver, The Cure, Dido, Keane, Snow
Patrol, Annie Lennox, Madonna, Paul McCartney, Razorlight, Snoop Dogg,
Sting, U2, Joss Stone, Stereophonics, REM, Muse,), the biggest
announcement yet was made today when Pink Floyd said they will re-unite for the first time in 24 years! (Yes, with Roger Waters!)

Things
turned sour when Waters sued the band in the 80’s and lost over use of
the band name. David Gilmore and company released the bands last album,
The Division Bell in 1994 sans
Roger Waters, but the guys have put their differences aside in order to
do their part in ending poverty and increasing aid to Africa.

Live 8 will take place on July 2.

Here is June’s New York City show list, thanks to Jess.

6/8 Spoon, the Clientele – Webster hall (sold out)
6/8 M.I.A., Diplo – S.O.B.’s (sold out)
6/8 Troubled Hubble – North Six

6/9 Apes - Trash
6/9 Spoon, the Clientele – Webster hall (sold out)
6/9 Keren Ann – South Paw
6/9 Old 97’s, Bobby Bare Jr. – Irving Plaza
6/9 the Robot Ate Me – the Delancey
6/9 Mosquitos – Tonic
6/9 Troubled Hubble – Rothko
6/9 The Coral – Bowery

6/10 LCD Soundsystem – Webster Hall
6/10 the Go Betweens – Mercury Lounge
6/10 the Robot Ate Me – Tonic (8)
6/10 Maximo Park – Tonic (10)
6/10 Kimone - Pianos

6/11 the Raveonettes – Webster Hall
6/11 the Dears, the Shout Out Louds – Bowery
6/11 the Go Betweens – Southpaw
6/11 Maximo Park – Tonic
6/11 The Mobius Band, the Winter Pageant – Knitting Factory

6/12 Architecture in Helsinki, Head of Femur, The Lilys – Knitting Factory

6/13 Architecture in Helsinki, Head of Femur – North Six
6/13 Montag, Vitamins for You, Au Revoir Simone - Rothko

6/14 Pixies, Interpol, LCD Soundsystem – Jones Beach
6/14 Bloc Party – Webster Hall (sold out)
6/14 Kimya Dawson, Jason Anderson, Schwervon! – North Six
6/14 50 Food Wave – Mercury Lounge

6/15 Bloc Party – Webster hall (sold out)

6/16 Iron & Wine – Webster Hall
6/16 The National – Mercury Lounge
6/16 The Caesars – Bowery

6/17 Iron & Wine – Webster Hall
6/17 The National – Mercury Lounge
6/17 Jonathan Richman – North Six
6/17 Rogue Wave, the Helio Sequence – Bowery

6/18 Thurston Moore – Tonic
6/18 Bettie Serveert – Knitting Factor
6/18 Dirty On Purpose, Bishop Allen – Mercury Lounge
6/18 Jonathan Richman – North Six
6/18 Cut Copy – Rothko

6/19 Jonathan Richman – North Six

6/20 Modest Mouse, Camper Van Beethoven – Central Park Summerstage (sold out)

6/21 Sleepytime Gorilla Museum – North Six

6/22 Sleepytime Gorilla Museum – Tonic

6/23 Sleater-Kinney, Dead Meadow – Roseland
6/23 Comets on Fire – Bowery

6/25 New Pornographers, Stars – Prospect Park Bandshell
6/25 Feist - Bowery
6/25 Mary Timony – North Six
6/25 Hopewell – Mercury Lounge

6/26 Tegan & Sara – Central Park Summerstage
6/26 Ted Leo & the Pharmacists, Radio 4 – Irving Plaza
6/26 the Soundtrack of our Lives – Knitting Factory
6/26 The Blue Van, The Everyothers – Southpaw

6/28 Skeletons & the Girl-Faced Boys - Tonic
6/28 PS (Free Show) - Sin-e

6/29 David Byrne – Central Park Summerstage
6/29 Longwave, Benzos – Bowery
6/29 Benzos, Longwave – Bowery
6/29 J Live, Vast Aire, C-Rayz Walz

6/30 Apostle of Hustle – Mercury Lounge
6/30 My Favorite, Andrew Kenny (American Analog Set) - Rothko