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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There are few bands spookier or more melancholy than San Diego’s The Black Heart Procession. So we’re considering it luck that the band, touring for its new album Six, will be in town this Halloween weekend, playing Maxwell’s on Saturday and Bowery Ballroom on Sunday.

Adam Rathe caught up with Black Heart’s Pall Jenkins during a break in his touring to talk about the new record, Halloween costumes and smoking pot in the van.

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CMJ has come to town, but don’t kill yourself trying to get a badge. Just go to the right showcases and call it a week. Tonight's best bet comes courtesy of Matador and True Panther.

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CMJ has come to town, but don’t kill yourself trying to get a badge. Just go to the right showcases and call it a week. Tonight's best bet comes courtesy of Jonny Leather and The Music Slut (no, kids, they're not one and the same!).

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In today's Post, author Phil Carlo dishes on how Mickey Rourke charmed him and won the role of Richard "The Ice Man" Kuklinski, the mafia hit man immortalized in Carlo's book The Ice Man: Confessions of a Mafia Contract Killer. We were lucky enough to catch up with Brooklyn-born Carlo to talk about his new book The Butcher:Anatomy of a Mafia Psychopath, coming out next week, as well as gruesome murders and his upcoming collaboration with Soundgarden's Chris Cornell.

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It's a love story for the ages, folks. In an interview with Brooklyn Based, graffiti superstar Dick Chicken discusses his artwork and, more importantly, his relationship with up-and-coming tagger Pussy Ham. We kvell!

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Just when you thought former LES hotspot The Box was done making waves, comes news that owners Simon Hammerstein and Randy Weiner will be taking their concept to Midtown for a two-week-only, Halloween-themed club called Purgatorio.

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Back in the heady days of June, our own Will Alden loved Beck & Co.'s Record Club, which released a cover of every song on The Velvet Underground and Nico. As far as covers of entire records go, I personally prefer Pussy Galore's version of Exile on Main Street, but what the "Loser" singer was up to wasn't half bad. Now he's at it again.

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It’s been 21 years since Kim Deal formed The Breeders, but unlike other acts—including the Pixies, featuring Deal herself—the band isn’t touring for the anniversaries of old records yet. Fate to Fatal, the group’s latest EP, was released in April and has all of the hazy melody and sweet, flat vocals that have characterized the group since 1990’s Pod. And while some of us might always think of the 1993 hit “Cannonball,” Deal herself is more interested in where the band is going than where it’s been. Talking from her van, pulled to the side of the road in Effingham, Indiana, Deal dished about screening her own covers, using a four-track and liking Pavement despite Stephen Malkmus’ big mouth.

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Tonight there’s a benefit for Cinema Nolita featuring The Virgins and The Beets as well as DJing from Animal Collective at Santos Party House, 100 Lafayette St. (betw. Walker & White Sts.), 212-584-5492; 8, $20

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