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Clearly not satiated by the glory of being a Playtex spokesman, party rocker Andrew W.K. is now attempting to set a world record. In conjunction with the O Music Awards, W.K. will go for the “longest drum session in a retail store”, pounding away behind the kit for 24 consecutive hours at Times Square

by Bill Pearis

Last year, San Diego duo TV Girl released the wildly clever and sample-heavy "mixtape" The Wild, The Innocent, The TV Shuffle free to the internet. Trung Ngo and Brad Petering have just followed that up with a new EP, Lonely Women, featuring five songs that mix hip hop beats with indiepop melodies and bitter/funny lyrics. A spoonful of sugar, they say. No snarky activity book with this one, and no easily-identifiable samples either. But their melodic abilities are still in full effect. You can stream the whole thing below.

TV Girl have a couple live dates coming up, but none on the East Coast. We need to get them out here. Tour schedule and EP stream are below.

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Who needs anger management when you can take your aggression out on a set of soda bottles…or a watermelon…or a trash can? And the list goes on. Directed by Brandon Dermer, Wavves’ new video for That’s On Me features a suit-wearing assailant whose hostility can’t be tamed. With a samurai sword in hand, a slicing-session is sure to ensue.

That’s On Me is off the band’s latest album, Afraid of Heights, and it’s appropriately riff-heavy and angry-sounding. Check out the video below and learn about alternative ways to de-stress.

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With all its zigzagging synth elements and bustling percussion high in the mix,

by Fred Pessaro

Martin Sorrondeguy with Crudos at Chaos in Tejas 2013 (more by Fred Pessaro)

Martin Sorrondeguy delivered awesome sets as a member of Crudos at Chaos in Tejas last month and with Limp Wrist twice this weekend, but now he'll bring another passion to the forefront next week: photography. As discussed at BVA, Sorrendguy has released the amazing Get Shot!, a compilation of photography by the punk frontman shot at various shows in the past 20+ years. Many of these photos, and others, will be front and center at an exhibition on June 24 at Superchief Gallery. The free show -- one night only -- opens at 5PM and Sorrendguy will have prints, his book, and latest zine available for purchase. Flyer is below.

If you missed Limp Wrist over the weekend, you can watch video from Union Pool and LPR below.

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John Grant at LPR in April (more by PSquared Photography)

Folk-turned-synth-pop musician John Grant recently kicked off his North American tour, which is set to come to NYC soon for a show on July 1. That show was initially set to happen at Mercury Lounge but has been moved to the larger Bowery Ballroom. NYC art pop singer Empress Of has been added as an opener to the show too. Tickets for the Bowery Ballroom show are available, and all tickets purchased for Mercury Lounge will be honored.

Updated dates are listed, along with a video, below...

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The hip-hop/R&B power couple re-team with Mike WiLL.

Ciara has enlisted beau Future and producer du jour Mike WiLL Made It for ‘Where You Go’; the three last worked together on the Ghost Town DJ-sampling smash

Willie Nelson at Wellmont Theatre in 2012 (more by Dana (distortion) Yavin)

Country music legend/activist Willie Nelson will be airing a special, Willie Nelson & Friends, that he taped at Jack White's Third Man Records on CMT next week (6/23) for their Crossraods series. Willie will be appearing with a number of guests on the show, including Neil Young, who joined him to perform "Long May You Run." Check out a video of Neil and Willie playing that song below (via Stereogum).

Willie Nelson also has a number of tour dates scheduled this year. He just played Montauk's Surf Lodge last week (6/9) and he'll be returning to the NYC-area for shows at Port Chester's Capitol Theatre on September 18 and 19. Tickets for night 1 and night 2 go on sale Friday (6/21) at noon.

All tour dates are listed, along with the CMT video, below...

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Danny Brown stopped by BBC Radio 1Xtra‘s Westwood last weekend to drop the official studio version of his newest single, “Kush Coma.” The weed-honoring track has been floating around the interwebz since March but now is getting its proper release with a guest spot from frequent collaborators A$AP Rocky and Zelooperz.

The previously released version sans Rocky was attention-grabbing enough, but this new studio recording is more of an upper than a downer with its cutting, fast-paced Skywlkr beat. The synth-loaded single comes off Brown’s upcoming album, Old, due out in August via Fools Gold. Put yourself in a “Kush Coma” below.

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by Klaus Kinski

Daniel Kitson

826NYC is a nonprofit tutoring center dedicated to helping students, ages 6-18, develop their writing skills in the realm of creative writing, expository writing and English as a Second Language. The 826NYC writing center provides free, daily, one-on-one tutoring sessions for students in need of after-school help. It also offers a free publishing resource to students, where volunteers are available to assist them in creating their own story collections, zines and other extracurricular student publications. In order for 826NYC to keep their vast array of programming free, they often throw insane comedy/music fundraisers in Brooklyn. 100% of the time the shows are more than worth the price of admission; but knowing your money is going to help childhood literacy makes dropping some coin on the event that much easier.

True to form, 826NYC has a fundraiser coming up on Wednesday July 10 at the Bell House featuring a pretty unbelievable line-up. The evening will be hosted by Sarah Vowell and Eugene Mirman and will feature sets by BV fave Reggie Watts, another BV fave Daniel Kitson(!), and more special guests. If you haven't seen Daniel Kitson... my Cod... dude, he's the greatest. Quite simply, one of the most brilliant and talented comedians to come out of the UK ever. Not kidd...

A couple of days ago, when I was writing about Yeezus, I was bathing in that album, thinking about it for days on end, playing it front-to-back on repeat for hours. Yeezus is a great album, but it’s not exactly a friendly one, and the experience was weirdly exhausting. It’s been a while since a hugely popular artist tried so hard to push vast swaths of the public away; Kid A is the only kinda-recent example that immediately jumps to mind. And by the time I was done and my piece was posted, I needed some goddam audio candy, and I knew exactly where I’d be turning. I’d been waiting for it, using it as a sort of carrot-on-the-stick incentive for when my piece was finally up. Y.R.N., the new mixtape from the Atlanta rap trio Migos, is everything Yeezus isn’t: Warm, fun, goofy, jokey, melodically immediate, buoyant, life-affirming, welcoming. I don’t love it the same way I love Yeezus, but it sure takes a lot less work to love. Y.R.N. is an immediately blast of joy, a fizzy summertime record that gets over on pure charm and craft, and I threw it on the second I was done with my Yeezus piece.

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