Monday, August 21st
Slowlands
@ CBGB / 9pm
315 Bowery, New York, NY [map]
w/ The Diggs
mp3: “Eisenstein”
Friday, August 25th
El Jezel + the iOs
@ Crash Mansion / 8pm
199 Bowery, New York, NY [map]
w/ House on Fire, Greg Hoy and the Boys
mp3: the iOs - “Every Waking Moment”
Harlem Shakes
@ Mercury Lounge / 9:30pm
217 East Houston Street, New York, NY [map]
w/ [...]

(Slowlands and Takka Takka)
We’ve been casually listening to Slowlands‘ full-length Never Was There A Town since it was sent to us nearly a year ago. From the first listen, we were taken with it, so we’re sorry it’s taken us this long to talk about them here on the site. Unless we have a personal [...]

The Art Of Shooting
@ Cake Shop / 8pm
152 Ludlow Street, New York, NY [map]
mp3: “Lost In Bordeom”

Ear Farm has just made available video of all four bands that played the first “Ear Farm Presents” show at Sin-e back in June. Among the videos is The Secret Life Of Sofia giving a great performance of “Hospital Inside Me” — from the band’s EP. Here it is on YouTube:

Ear Farm also has quicktime [...]

A Place To Bury Strangers
@ Pianos / 9:30pm
158 Ludlow Street, New York, NY [map]
w/ Other Passengers, The Jelous Girlfriends (Reseidency), Birds And Bees, Your Secret Admirer, Surgeon, Prospect Hill
mp3: “I Know I’ll See You”

From the recently/impressively revamped Serious Business Records website:
DraculaZombieUSA, along with pal JAMF, went ahead and remixed Spank Rock’s “Put That Pussy on Me.” You should go ahead and listen to the remix here and buy the original here or here. The remix was also posted by Chris over here at Gorilla Vs Bear.

Former Unsacred Hearts bassist and forever ongoing Secret Dakota Ring alter-ego, Andy Ross, has been busy training for the as yet non-existent Indie Pop Olympics with his current band, OK Go. The video for “Here It Goes Again” features the band (Andy’s the one wearing the jacket), with endurance levels set to “high,” dancing on [...]

Spin likes The Big Sleep so much that they’re offering a free mp3 from the band’s upcoming full-length debut, Son Of The Tiger, on their website. So head on over and do it fast because the download is only available until August 15th — more than a month before the full album is released on [...]

Asobi Seksu has just made the video for “Thursday,” from the recently released Citrus available on YouTube. Check it out:

(Photo by Bryan Bruchman)
The Upwelling was in Baltimore on Saturday and Subinev has pictures and a short show review:
…the trio played a fantastically tight set that somehow transformed the nondescript space in which they were playing into a gigantic stadium with a huge sound.