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Tonight, buzz band Surfer Blood plays with milkshake fanatics Art Brut at Brooklyn Bowl, 61 Wythe Ave. (at N. 11th St.), Brooklyn, 718-963-3369; 9, $14
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In the coolest crowd-sourcing project we’ve heard of lately, The Huffington Post is asking music lovers to pinpoint songs about New York City on an interactive map.
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Two nights after witnessing a heroic three-hour performance by Bruce Springsteen at a full capacity Madison Square Garden—which included his 1980 classic The River in full—I found myself in a nearly empty Cake Shop for Indianapolis band Jookabox. Springsteen is a legend and his age-defyingly passionate performance did nothing but further clarify how he can command a crowd of 20,000 two nights in a row, only a month after selling out five nights in a row at the even larger Giants Stadium.
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Last night we caught Deastro—who some thought was a disappointment during a recent CMJ show but I thought was really quite good—at Mercury Lounge. Here's a clip of a new song that the band, now performing as a duo, played.
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If you didn't see one of the band's billion shows during CMJ, be sure to catch The XX tonight at Bowery Ballroom, 6 Delancey St. (betw. Bowery & Chrystie St.), 212-533-2111; 7:30, $12
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For many music fans, Travis occupies a malign place in recent history. The band is a crucial link between Oasis and Coldplay, joining the unselfconscious schlock of Britpop to its narcoleptic, eye-gougingly inoffensive successor. But taken on its own terms, Travis’s sap approaches sublimity—in addition to mocking Britney Spears and making one of the most (I’m guessing unintentionally) disturbing videos of, like, ever, Travis wrote a few of the all-time great wussified rock songs. “Why Does it Always Rain On Me?” still instantly comes to mind whenever it y’know, rains on me, and “Turn” has an epic, swinging-for-the-fences quality that makes it an exercise in earnestness rather than Coldplay-style self-debasement.
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"If you've got problems/ why don't you go solve them?" That was the glossily resonant lyric from "Nothing To Worry About" Monday night as Peter Bjorn and John played a 75-minute, mostly crowd-pleasing set at Webster Hall. The best solution the band came up with for the song, however, was Philly MC Spank Rock, who busted out mid-jam to twirl in a circle, flip his cap around, drop a largely indecipherable verse and briskly strut off stage.
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