WHEN THE FIRST Raveonettes album, Chain Gang of Love, came out, the asymmetrically haircutted masses (aww, remember those?) made lots of jokes about already owning Suicide records. Six years later, those folks have all traded their Tones on Tail records and coke habits for flannel shirts and organic shallots at the farmer’s market. The Raveonettes, though, is still around. The band’s fourth record, Lust for Life, was released Oct. 6 and features some of the same fuzzed-out instruments and cool vocals that members Sharin Foo and Sune Rose Wagner have always been known for, but also have some sweet harmonies and new adventures in songwriting, not to mention a song with a singsong chorus of “fuck suicide.” Read more Read it in print

Starting tomorrow, the Museum of Modern Art will present Spike Jonze: The First 80 Years, a retrospective of the work of the 39-year-old filmmaker running the gamut from his early commercials and music videos to clips from his upcoming adaptation of Maurice Sendak’s classic childrens book Where The Wild Things Are. Read more

Jim Jarmusch, David Cross and Sufjan Stevens havent all been in the same spot since that fateful night in the bathroom at Lit, but this weekend at All Tomorrows Parties, those studs and many more will be in attendance. Read more Read it in print

HEARTLESS BASTARDS What are the best and worst things about playing outdoors? The best thing about playing outdoors is the fresh air. The worst is that outdoor shows are usually in the summ Read more

In a partnership with uptown art house Maysles Cinema, the New Museum will be showing a smattering of films about the Black Panther Party, including Agnes Varda’s Huey!, which focuses on—duh!— Huey Newton, Merritt College: Home of the Black Panthers as well as a film of one of Emory Douglas’ 2005 lectures. Read more Read it in print

Cats aren’t our favorite. Honestly, if they’re not doing something adorable and accompanied by a LOL caption, we more or less ignore them.Tonight, though, the felines have assembled a fundraiser for one of their shelters, and some especially excellent local talent like My Teenage Stride and The Drums will be playing.They win this time. Read more Read it in print

Lots of the musicals we see are kind of hard to relate to: Our nannies never flew, we’ve been mugged In The Heights and naked hippies are often disappointing in real life . But tonight Joshua Salzman and Ryan Cunningham’s new show, Next Thing You Know, opens, and it focuses on characters that wake up one day and realize: Shit!, this is real life. Read more Read it in print

We doubt that Donald Trump, gay marriage or secret nudie photos will be involved, but the Miss Belgium USA contest this weekend promises to be an enticing event nonetheless.The pageant, proceeds from which will benefit do-gooder kids charities, is part of Belgian National Day, an afternoon-into-evening festival with drinking, eating, music and more. Being an equal-opportunity festival, the event will also offer gentlemen the opportunity to become Mr. Belgium in a competitive Stella-chugging contest. Read more Read it in print

The fuzzed-out, haunting sounds of Portland, Ore.’s Little Claw, apparent on this summer’s album Human Taste, make the band a perfect match for hometown heroes Crystal Stilts. Check out the pair together for the maximum in summer gloom. Read more Read it in print

If you missed the big-deal production of Shakespeare’s gender-bending comedy in Central Park, don’t fret— Communicable Arts is presenting one of its true-to-textbut-with-modern-costumes stagings in Red Hook. Read more Read it in print