Couple of interesting shows coming up at the iHeartRadio Theater in Tribeca.

Fitz and the Tantrums
May 29, 2013
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Sweepstakes ends: May 24, 2013 12:00

J. Cole
June 4, 2013
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Sweepstakes ends: May 31, 2013 12:00

Of Monsters and Men
June 6, 2013
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Sweepstakes ends: June 03, 2013 12:00

Twenty One Pilots
June 19, 2013
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Sweepstakes ends: June 14, 2013 12:00

Mike Birbiglia’s My Girlfriend’s Boyfriend at Carnegie Hall (06/02/13)

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“Excuse me sir, how do you get to Carnegie Hall?”
“Practice.”
- Mischa Elman

Hey folks, comedian Mike Birbiglia is wrapping up performances of his latest show, “My Girlfriend’s Boyfriend,” with a feather capping, one night stand at NYC’s venerable Carnegie Hall on June 2 (Buy Tickets). For those of who may not be able to afford a trip to Carnegie Hall, I’m happy to be giving away two pairs of tickets to the show. Contest ends at midnight ET on May 27, winners will be notified on Tuesday, May 28, 1 entry per person. Fill out the contest entry form after the jump, good luck!

Mike Birbiglia’s My Girlfriend’s Boyfriend, written by and starring Mike Birbiglia, will have its final performance at the famed Carnegie Hall on June 2nd.

In Mike Birbiglia’s My Girlfriend’s Boyfriend, Mike shares a lifetime of romantic blunders and miscues that most adults would spend a lifetime trying to forget. On this painfully honest journey, Mike struggles to find reason in an area where it may be impossible to find—love.

Winner of the Lucille Lortel Award for Outstanding Solo Show and directed by Seth Barrish (Sleepwalk With Me, The Tricky Part, Old Wicked Songs), Mike Birbiglia’s My Girlfriend’s Boyfriend marks Mike Birbiglia’s return to the New York stage after his highly-acclaimed Off-Broadway engagement Sleepwalk With Me, for which he was nominated for the Drama Desk and Outer Critic Circle Awards.

Mike Birbiglia’s My Girlfriend’s Boyfriend will now be performed for the final time at Carnegie Hall on June 2nd. The show has been performed nationally in more than 20 cities including an 81 performance run at the Barrow Street Theatre.

The show will also feature a special performance by Ira Glass and the Monica Bill Barnes & Company from their show, “One Radio Host, Two Dancers.”

My Girlfriend’s Boyfriend at Carnegie Hall contest entry form after the jump.

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Dragons of Zynth at Siren Fest (07/19/08)

Photo: Jon Klemm (more)

Trouble Will Find Me – The National

Trouble Will Find Me, the new album The National, is out today (May 21) via 4AD. There doing a bunch of cool things to celebrate (which unfortunately I wasn’t able to post until now).

To celebrate release day, we’ve decided to play a few shows at NYC venues that mean a lot to us. You can get details for the first show on Twitter (@The_National) a little later today. At 5:00 pm, we’re playing at Public Assembly. We played some very early shows back when the space was still Galapagos, so we thought it would be fun to revisit the beginnings of the band today. We’ll be giving away tickets for this one, just email troublewillfindmentnl@gmail.com and let us know that you’d like to go. We’ll pick winners later today & you will receive an email confirmation if you are on the guest list by 3:00 pm. At 10 pm tonight, you can find us at Mercury Lounge. It felt really special when we were given our first show there, so we’re going to cap off this day with another great night there. Tickets go on sale at Noon. You can buy them at the Mercury box office or use this link: http://www.ticketmaster.com/event/00004AB4AA2080E8.

Video for “Don’t Swallow The Cap” from Letterman after the jump.

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Turns out you won’t be missing Sharon Jones tonight after all.

@GoogaMooga

Today’s cancellation is surely a disappointment for everyone involved, but it’s not really a day that you want to be outside. Organizationally, the festival seems to have stepped it up a few notches this year, but mother nature just wasn’t on their side. Hopefully, it wasn’t too much of a bloodbath and they’ll be able to give it another go in 2014. I like what they are trying to do, and this year seemed like a big leap forward.

PS Not surprisingly, I received an email this morning advertising that more GA tickets would be available for today’s event. As of this posting, I haven’t received the email saying today was called off.

Great Googa Mooga (May 17-19, 2013)

Photo: D. Caplan

The second annual Great Googa Mooga starts tonight in Prospect Park with a paid concert by The Darkness, The Flaming Lips and the Yeah Yeah Yeahs. Sharon Jones and The Dap Kings, who were supposed to headline Sunday’s show, are being replaced by Kool and the Gang due to “an urgent family matter.” I’m sure that will be a disappointment for both concertgoers and Sharon Jones alike, who last played to a rapturous crowd of 20,000 strong at the Prospect Park Bandshell. Free tickets for both Saturday and Sunday are sold out, but if you hang out at the gate or keep checking in with the folks at myfreeconcert, you can probably score yourself a pair.

Full Googa Mooga Saturday and Sunday music lineup after the jump.

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Amadou & Mariam at Central Park Summerstage (08/04/12)

Photo: Geoff Green

Malian musical duo Amadou & Mariam, tend to make their annual journey to the US during the summer to play a number of festival dates and some club gigs. Having played Summerstage in year, this year A&M are crossing the river to play a show on June 21 at Celebrate Brooklyn!. They are still touring in support their 2012 full length, Folila, but they also just released a new EP in April entitled Mali meets Latin America Remix EP.

Video for “Africa mon Afrique,” more “lost” photos of last year’s Central Park Summerstage gig and 2013 Amadou & Mariam tour dates after the jump.

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Bluth Banana Stand and the cast of Arrested Development

“There’s always money in the banana stand.” – George Bluth

The Bluth Frozen Banana stand*, long time fixture of the Bluth Company, will be at Yankee Stadium today from 3:30 – 8PM. Stop by before the game for a photo and a frozen banana. In conjunction with the banana stand, the Yankees are running a half price ticket offer for tonight’s matchup against the Mariners (May 15).

* The Bluth company has also owned and run a frozen banana stand started by George in 1953 on the Newport Beach boardwalk on Balboa Island. The stand was a popular meeting place for the buying and selling of marijuana in the 1970s. As the stand itself was built to resemble a large yellow banana, it was commonly known as “the big yellow joint”, and became the topic of a hit song by the same name. [arresteddevelopment.wikia.com]

The banana stand, is of course, an ingenious promotion for the highly anticipated premiere of Season 4 of Arrested Development on May 26 on Netflix.

Watch the trailer for Season 4 of @arresteddev after the jump.

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Superchunk at XX Merge (07/24/09)

Photo: PJ Sykes

Music Geeks Presales (Password: MusicGeeks)
07/27 – Texas Hippie Coalition plus Eve to Adam @ Gramercy Theatre *Presale runs from 10am to 10pm on 5/16*
09/13 – Pinback plus Deathfix @ Irving Plaza*Presale runs from 10am to 10pm on 5/16*
09/19 – FLAG @ Irving Plaza *Presale runs from 10am on 5/15 to 10pm on 5/16*

Freeloaders

Are comedies your thing? Were Beerfest and Super Troopers two of your favorite movies? If you answered “yes” to both of those questions, then you’ll probably be pleased to hear that I’m giving away a copy of Freeloaders on DVD. For those of you who may be a little more unfamiliar with the film, here’s what it’s all about:

A group of slackers living for free in a rock star’s mansion suddenly find their lives on easy street threatened when the musician decides to sell his pad. To stop the sale the gang comes up with a series of ludicrous and hilarious schemes to insure the house never sells. From the producers of Beerfest and Super Troopers, another hysterically funny comedy starring Olivia Munn, Dave Foley, Jane Seymour, Nat Faxon, Denise Richards, Josh Lawson, Zoe Boyle, Clifton Collins Jr., Kevin Sussman, Warren Hutchinson, Brit Morgan and featuring music by Adam Duritz (Counting Crows).

If you’d like a chance to win a copy of Freeloaders on DVD, please fill out the contest entry form after the jump. Contest ends on Wednesday, May 15 at midnight ET. One entry per person, US residents only.

Trailer and contest entry form after the jump.

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