Tomorrow is the big day: as we reported last month, NY1 anchor Pat Kiernan will be charming viewers nationally as guest host on LIVE! With Kelly. This also means that those without Time Warner and NY1 will be able to get their Kiernan fix, and word is he may even read the papers. So, consider this your reminder to set your DVR to record the show, which will air on ABC from 9 to 10 a.m. tomorrow morning. Even Kiernan himself, who was in the studio today learning some guest host techniques, Tweeted, "must admit I got a little thrill setting the DVR today." more ›

There were a lot of mixed sentiments around Radiohead's latest release, the understated, glitchy eight-track album The King Of Limbs. Fans have been wondering how songs from the album, which is truly defined by its layered, muffled studio production, would translate live. Now, you can hear for yourself in the fantastic video below of Radiohead performing the whole album, plus two as yet unreleased songs, on the "From The Basement" TV show, which the band just put up on their YouTube channel. more ›

It's a Conan O’Brien stage show reboot. The late night talk show host is bringing his live act back to New York. TBS has announced that O'Brien will take the Beacon Theater stage from October 31st to November 3rd, all in celebration of his one year anniversary move to TBS (he'll also be swinging by Chicago in 2012). more ›

TV On The Radio have a brilliant brand new album, Nine Types Of Light, coming out next Tuesday. And to celebrate the occasion, they're bringing it all back home and playing a surprise release show at the comfy Music Hall Of Williamsburg that evening.The band already announced a show at Radio City Music Hall next Wednesday (tickets still available here), but wouldn't you rather be able to move around all herky jerky-like and dance those cobwebs out of your beard? The Music Hall show goes on sale tomorrow at noon here. more ›

Everyone's favorite BQE-enthusiast musician will be coming to town this summer for a special outdoor concert. Sensitive indie dude-turned-dayglo prancer Sufjan Stevens will be playing a rare outdoor show at Prospect Park on Tuesday August 2 for the annual Celebrate Brooklyn! festival. And tickets are on-sale now! more ›

As one of the great 20th century philosophers put it, "Mondays Suck." But sometimes Sundays are just as bad: maybe you're hungover, maybe you have to catch up with work, but the whole time, you're carrying around the foreboding knowledge that Monday is right around the corner. Well here's a way to bust you out of your Sunday blues: a red hot soundboard recording of The Ramones live at NYC's Palladium, from January 7, 1978, at the height of their powers. more ›

Last night at Baruch College's Mason Hall in Manhattan, a motley crew of indie rock and power pop all-stars came together to pay tribute to the seminal Third/Sisters Lovers album by Big Star. The group of musicians, which included Michael Stipe and Mike Mills of R.E.M., Ira Kaplan of Yo La Tengo, Matthew Sweet and original Big Star drummer Jody Stephens, was organized and directed by Chris Stamey of the dBs, one of the descendants of Big Star. It was a reverential but heartfelt evening, with upwards of 10 people on stage at a time bringing the haunted, drug-addled album to life with generous, often upbeat arrangements, including full string and brass sections. more ›

Charlie Sheen's live show (titled My Violent Torpedo of Truth) will be headed to NYC next month, along with a slew of other cities. It's still not sold out here, despite numerous reports that it is (really, we just checked, still seats available!). Anyway, for those concerned with Charlie earning enough money to support himself and his goddesses sans his high paying television gig, fear not: TMZ reports that he will make $7 million dollars for this tour. more ›

Last week word was that Jay-Z's performance tonight atop the marquee of the Ed Sullivan Theater got canceled because of concerns that things may get a little out of control. This announcement came just days after rapper Drake was scheduled to play a free show at the South Street Seaport, which ended in a riot before the first note even got played. But it looks like Jay-Z's camp, and the city, may have pulled an ol' switcharoo on us, because right now both Jay-Z and Eminem are rehearsing on top of Letterman's studio. more ›

Last month PETA announced their distaste for restaurants serving live octopus. They wrote letters, protested, and are currently investigating the issue throughout the city. For now, the twitching dish is still being served up, and the Daily News just sent one brave writer to sink his teeth into it. more ›

Tonight PETA plans to protest some of the restaurants they've called out for serving live animals (HuffPo has a pretty intense video slideshow). Earlier this month they wrote letters to various District Attorneys concerning the restaurants in their jurisdictions which were plating animals with pulses—some of which were well documented by the Gastronauts club (maybe next time the creatures will steal their cameras!). more ›

PETA is now focusing their gaze on the city's octopus community... which some find quite delicious! The organization's David Perle tells us they're addressing disturbing practices they've found in Manhattan and Queens restaurants, and aim to stop the "chopping up or slowly steaming live octopuses and serving them while they're still conscious." more ›

Last week we noted the opening of a charming new restaurant/cocktail lounge/jazz bar called The Manhattan Inn in Greenpoint (located on Manhattan between Bedford and Nassau); but as you can see this place is so good looking it merits its own feature. This weekend we were actually lured there twice; the first visit was occasioned by our desire to wait out the Saturday afternoon rain and read over cocktails. The back room was uniquely suited for our purposes, and the Manhattan's Manhattan ($9) was as big and inviting as a heated private lap pool. (The classic specialty cocktail menu is from James Endicott, formerly of Per Se and Allen & Delancey, and there is also wine and craft beer on tap.) more ›

Members of the sprawling Ontario art rock collective Broken Social Scene are on tour in support of founding member Brendan Canning's solo album Something For All of Us... It's the newest record in the "Broken Social Scene Presents" series, in which individual bandmates take charge to create their own set of songs, with varying degrees of collaboration from their fellow scenesters. (You'll recall that the first of these was Kevin Drew's Spirit If..., which established the trend for albums with ellipses.) Reviewing Something For All of Us..., Spin declares, "Brendan Canning makes the case that he might be the guy really responsible for the Scene's glisten, summoning goose bumps with gossamer strings and arranging rockers that simmer but don't singe." more ›

Multi-instrumentalist Mike Gordon – revered for his virtuoso bass playing and distinctive singing with the trailblazing jam band Phish – is releasing a new solo album on August 5th, right in the midst of feverish speculation about a Phish reunion; speculation that's been all but confirmed by the band members themselves. As Gordon tells us in this interview, the timing of all this increased Phish chatter is a bit "weird," mainly because he's so excited about touring with his new band in support of the upbeat new record, called The Green Sparrow. more ›

Hometown post-punk heroes Sonic Youth played a free show for approximately 7,000 fans in Battery Park on July 4th as part of the River to River Festival. The decades-old band started the set with a spellbinding, spacey rendition of “She is Not Alone,” followed by the Kim Gordon-led classic “Bull in the Heather.” By the third song, a blistering “Silver Rocket,” 50-year-old frontman Thurston Moore seemed to have had enough of the photographers separating his band from the frenzied crowd, so he climbed down into the photo pit to thrash through the scrum, before getting back onstage to finish the song. more ›

For their fourth full-length album, BITS, Oxford Collapse reportedly wrote over 30 songs – more than twice as many as they needed. "The economy has been bad, so we decided to write more songs," explains Michael Pace. It was originally assumed that BITS, their second album on Sub Pop Records, would be a double album, but in the end 13 tracks round out the CD, to be released on August 5th. One song, "The Birthday Wars" is on the band's MySpace page for your listening pleasure; the others can be sampled tonight when they play a hometown gig at Southpaw. The band's live show is a total blast, bursting with mean hooks and propulsive guitar work; their set at McCarren Pool last summer was the sleeper hit of the summer. Tickets cost $12 and also get you sets from Frightened Rabbit and The Lame Drivers. more ›

Since he began his fruitful collaboration with Walter Becker back at Bard College in 1968, Grammy award-winning musician Donald Fagen has steadily distinguished himself as one of the smartest and most imaginative contemporary songwriters. As Steely Dan, the innovative duo lays claim to an impressive catalog of hit singles that somehow manage to stay fresh despite their everlasting ubiquity on classic rock stations across America. For whatever reason, people still can't help cranking up the volume when My Old School comes on for the millionth time, to say nothing of indispensable classics like Caves of Altamira, Sign in Stranger, or the soulful Dr. Wu. more ›

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In the years since the demise of the '90s cult phenomenon Soul Coughing, Mike Doughty's been assiduously cultivating a fruitful career in the singer-songwriter mold, though he's not above sharing the spotlight with other musicians like his admirer Dave Matthews. His 2005 album, Haughty Melodic, was his first to feature a full band; PopMatters praised the album's marriage of "post-Soul Coughing singer-songwriter compositional style with the tapestry of brightly colored sounds and snarled grooves of his now-defunct, aesthetically pleasing – in other words, fly – band." more ›

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