playing tonight August 26, 2008

Dr. Dog, Nada Surf, Hillary Clinton & more tonight

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It’s freaking Tuesday! And how brilliant that the Olympics finished just in time for the Democratic National Convention. Here is the DNC’s full Tuesday schedule; Hillary Clinton headlines.

Music Hall of Williamsburg: Dr. Dog plays a rescheduled, sold-out show with Senator R. Stevie Moore and Miles Benjamin Anthony Robinson // Cake Shop: Brooklyn’s Callers will release their full-length album Fortune on September 9, and will play tonight with The Chris Forsyth (of The Peeesseye).

McCarren Pool: L Magazine’s Summer Screen series is showcasing two local bands; The King Left will play an acoustic set, and are joined by Trashed on Fiction before showing Wes Anderson’s Rushmore.

More bands and all mp3 links after the jump.

Bowery Ballroom: A “Bone Marrowthon/Stem Cell-Abration” benefit with Nada Surf playing an acoustic set, joined by Richard Buckner, Dean & Britta, Sam Champion, Victoria Williams; Brooklyn’s Australian transplant Scott Matthew, who “strips with his music” and “dissects himself to reveal his very innards with great parsimony”–listen to his “Spinning on Air” appearance on WNYC last year; and California’s Hawaii-born songstress Simone White. Also, for the next three days you can buy Sam Champion’s new album Heavy Blender at Amie Street for just $3.

Playlist
Callers: More than Right
Miles Benjamin Anthony Robinson: Who’s Laughing
Simone White: The Beep Beep Song
Nada Surf: See These Bones
Scott Matthew: Abandoned
Sam Champion: Be Mine Everyone
The King Left: The Storm in a Teacup
Dr. Dog: The Old Days

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