Upcoming

CONTEST ALERT: We're part of a joint blog contest thing that we don't completely understand, but here's what you need to know: FREE iPod Nano! Filled up with the soundtrack from Elizabethtown. You can enter here, and you should. Seriously. Do it.

ART: "For the first time in history, Skewville, America's most subversive street art twins, will be unlocking their doors and allowing the public to explore their secret laboratory..." of their own brand of underground science. Classic street art and urban defiance will be revealed, don't miss out. [via FreeNYC]
Saturday (running through October) // 7-10pm // Basement Aire Gallery [178 Stanton St.] // Free

READING?: Celebrate James Dean is tonight and as papermag.com asks, "who doesn’t celebrate James Dean every day?" The event coincides with the 50th anniversary of Dean’s death and includes a look-alike contest (hot!), a raffle and a reading from a new book titled James Dean: The Lost Memoirs. Proceeds will benefit the victims of Hurricane Katrina. [via papermag.com]
Friday // 6:30-9pm // 10th Little W. 12th St. // $30 in advance & $35 day of

FILM: 23 Reasons to Spare New York: Music Videos from the Art Rock Scene brings together a sampling of NYC art rock videos, including "Black Dice by Danny Perez, Devin Flynn, Disbelief Street, Foetus by Karen O, Jason Forrest by Waverly Films, Japanther by Punkcast, Ted Leo by Pancake Mountain, Liars by Cody Critcheloe, Ex-Models by Mighty Robot, scenes from Up With People: A Film About Oneida, Antony and the Johnsons by Glen Fogel, Big Noise Films, My Robot Friend, Regina Spektor by Adria Petty, Vaz by Starter Set, and Mixel Pixel by Retard Riot."
The art and music scenes will merge to explore video mash-up, counterculture media, computer animation, and "commercial" music video and more.
Sunday // 7pm // Galapagos [70 North 6th Street (between Wythe and Kent)]

MUSIC: This weekends music picks are at the end of this post, that is of course assuming you aren't all going to Across the Narrows.
We suggest checking out our interview subject from this week, Hartley Goldstein, at the first of his Sunday residencey at Pianos.
Sunday // 9pm // Pianos // Free