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We've been looking for another excuse to hear Vito Acconci deliver at "textural architecture" speech. And to see David Grubbs jam solo and to win a photo of Terry Richardson's outie bellybutton. There is also a puppet show. Why not? What better excuse for a plethora of bizarre than to benefit little Myat Moondog Haggart, whose young life has been plagued by brain problems. Full flyer with lineup is after the jump, stop by on Sunday if you can. more...

Last night Schnipper and his friend went to see No Age and High Places at Bowery Ballroom. it was fun! Gchat interview about the show between Schnipper and J after the jump. more...

Bradford Cox posts approximately one kajillion free new songs a day on the Deerhunter blog, and by our extremely precise mathematics that means he's recording four songs a minute. Now he's got a new four song EP (which apparently means he recorded the whole thing in one minute) about homesickness while on tour. Most of these are instrumental, so basically they are ultra conceptual with really literal titles about things he misses, like "My Car," and "My Bed," but that's how Bradford rolls.

Download: Atlas Sound, Things I'll Miss EP

Patrik North at Summer Lovers Unlimited sent us this track from guy-girl duo three person band Salem a little bit ago, and we've been trying to wrap our minds around it since. Basically it's a Bruce Springsteen cover that sounds like Glass Candy spent ten years as goths and were inspired by things like snow and ankhs instead of italo disco and Portland. Their MySpace has a bunch of other songs to listen to, as well as many pictures that people posted of things like that one picture of the Harry Potter kid naked next to a horse.


Download: Salem, "Streets of Philadelphia" (Bruce Springsteen Cover)

Once in awhile the sky finally opens up and we come out of hibernation to enjoy things like the air and lots of live music. Basically, shit just aligns real nicely and like every band we've ever ridden for comes to New York to perform in the span of one week and we freak out and go to all of the shows. We know we just did one of these last week, but this week is INSANE. Check out some of the stuff that's going on after the jump (including ultra bros for life Ladyhawk and Dr Dog, coming back to New York for the first time in what seems like a million years, but is actually less than one year). more...

Clipd Beaks have started a new MySpace page seemingly based off of a billboard they saw (pictured above). Normally this would not exactly be notable news, but on it they have a bunch of new songs including "Burning Apparitions," which sounds like sitting in a lawn chair when it is 101 degrees while hungover in a wet swimsuit. We promise that they somehow make that actually a good thing.


Download: Clipd Beaks, "Burning Apparitions"

Here are two videos of folky New York dudes Woods playing in what looks like a very dark bookstore, which is actually the best place they could possibly play since they live in New York and can't play next to a babbling brook or a waterfall or something. So yeah, the New York city equivalent of a waterfall is a dimly lit library or bookstore or private home with an experimental folk band playing in it. Also, Woods are playing with FADER pals Abe Vigoda at the Silent Barn this Friday, get stoked! more...

New Yorkers we have some bad news for you, you're going to have to make some hard decisions tonight because there are some serious shows happening. First of all there is Feist at the Hammerstein Ballroom. Feist does not currently have a new album out, but everyone in the world has a crush on her so you should go. What Feist does have though, is a duet with the Constantines covering the Bee Gees by way of Dolly Parton and Kenny Rogers' "Islands in the Stream." You can listen to that here. Alternately, if you want to get a little weird you can hit up Southpaw and catch Gang Gang Dance and High Places, two bands that probably should put out another record but have yet to do so. If that doesn't float your boat you can catch Santogold at the Virgin Megastore in Union Square for FREE in like an hour and a half. Free! It kinda snuck up on us, but Santi's new album comes out today and it is jamming. We've seen her perform a whole bunch in the last couple months and it is consistently great, everyone should go. ALSO: We mentioned The Verve the other day because their performance at Coachella was pretty stunning and loud, and if you couldn't make it out to the hot desert in the middle of nowhere you can catch The Verve at The WaMu theater at Madison Square Garden in an area that probably has air conditioning but will still be really hot.

Each Tuesday, FADER editor Matthew Schnipper highlights an underappreciated recent release he thinks we need to know about. This week it's Deerhoof's Reveille. Download "Holy Night Fever" from the album here (right click, save as), buy it here and read about it after the jump. more...

Time to put on your yellow pants like that dude (or maybe you are that dude) and take the one train uptown to Barnard and sit on the grass for (what have decided is) Inaugural Warm Weather Show #1 aka the 15th Annual WBAR-B-Q with Japanther headlining. It's free and outside and it starts at noon. We're pretty sure our old intern had something to do with this. We see you Jamie Johns. Full line up after the jump... more...

Trust us, when we put Johannesburg's BLK JKS on the cover of our Africa Issue, we had no idea we'd be seeing them more frequently than our parents this year. From New York to Texas and back to New York, the dudes have been grinding hard and meeting half of America in the meantime. We managed to wrangle them for an episode of Open Bar, our new series filmed at Heathers in the East Village. They jammed out an acoustic version of "Molalatladi" and then disappeared to do something presumably cool because that's all they do. Tomorrow night though, 11:30 at Joe's Pub, they will be playing their last show before heading back home, so come out and say goodbye (for now) and prep for the release of their new Mystery EP recorded at Electric Ladyland while you were sleeping.

Bradford posts so many new songs on his blog that we can barely keep track, it's like he's the shoegaze version of Lil Wayne. Now that the Atlas Sound album is getting released in the UK, he's decided to include a whole bonus disc of extra jams and then when it gets re-relased in the US there will be a whole separate batch. How many blissed out Atlas Sound songs with depressing subject matter can we listen to? Apparently a whole lot!


Download: Atlas Sound, "Another Bedroom"

Ponytail are really crazy, their songs a jumble of guitars and screeching vocals that cohere, somehow, into an actually listenable song. Their album is coming out on the awesome Now We Are Free label (also home to Yeasayer and Indian Jewelry), and it is hectic and frantic and compelling.

Stream: Ponytail, "Celebrate The Body Electric"

Excepter are really knocking out the videos lately. Granted, this is basically just a video of sunrises and sunsets, but that is relaxing and the song is not relaxing so now we're all uneasy in a good way.

It is finally Spring! There is sun out and Animal Collective leaked the first song from their upcoming EP. "Water Curses" is more organic than much of the material from Strawberry Jam but it is no less energetic and also it is totally propelled by good Spring vibes. Check out the song here.

Clipd Beaks have steadily been releasing white hot goopy desert jams for awhile now, and pretty quick on the heels of Hoarse Lords, they've got some new music up on their MySpace to check out, some of it is way out there but that's what we're expecting. Also, remember when we did this? Greg Pritchard, who we did the interview with, has since left the band on good terms, but keep an eye out for new Clipd Beaks material in the near future.

Apparently today is a totally blissed out Monday because between this and the Quiet Village video a couple posts down we are laying on the floor and feeling the good vibes and actually just beaming these blog posts into the computer. Anyway, Nudge is comprised of main Kranky dude Brian Foote, Paul Dickow and Honey Owens aka F52 Gen-F-er Valet, and besides being really shimmery and relaxing (there are hand drums!) this song is actually really catchy. Check it out below.

Although one of our favorite tracks from Nat Baldwin's MVP out later this month is not included here (that would be "Dome Branches," an epic horn driven jam that climaxes and climaxes and dissolves into rolling drums and an addictingly repetitive chorus) we're still excited about dude and his Dave Longstreth-esque unsettling melodic shifts. RCRD LBL has two songs for download and one for stream.

Download: Two new Nat Baldwin songs

Blank Dogs are basically making pop songs despite the fact that the lyrics are obscured and distorted almost beyond the point of recognition. Sometimes sounding like Cure home demos or lo-fi New Order, the band succeeds because underneath all the distortion there are total pop hooks and awesome synth sounds. Also they succeed because they are giving their ENTIRE CATALOGUE away for free. There's a donation button on their blog, give a band some dollars!

Download: Blank Dogs, On Two Sides