The Village Voice’s Siren Festival is happening at Coney Island this year on July 18, and is free, as usual. Previously announced were BUILT TO SPILL, THE RAVEONETTES, FRIGHTENED RABBIT, THE GRAND DUCHY (Frank Black and his wife, Violet Clark), MONOTONIX, and MICACHU & THE SHAPES. Just added are: SPANK ROCK, FUTURE OF THE LEFT, JAPANDROIDS and BEAR HANDS. Sweet!

Well, the free tickets are “sold out” so if you are one of the lucky ones for the Boredom’s August 8 event on the Williamsburg waterfront, then get psyched for this awesome line-up of drummers…with one left as a TBA. Who will it be??

Ryan Sawyer (Tall Firs / Stars Like Fleas / Thurston Moore / Eye Contact / Lone Wolf and Cub)
Chris Brokaw (Come/ ffffflashlights/ Thurston Moore’s New Wave Bandits)
Will Shmee (Knox Dad)
Suzanne Rogaleski (Lone Wolf and Cub / Badmittons)
Alex Holden (Big Numbers)
Brian Mcleod (Modest Mouse / Lights / Love as Laughter)
Torbitt Schwartz (Chin Chin / Reverend Vince Anderson)
Jaleel Bunton (TV on the Radio / Reverend Vince Anderson)
Brian Tamborello (Psychic Ills)
Jim Siegel (Ning Nong Radio)
Greg Anderson (Oakley Hall / Windsor for the Derby)
Dreiky Caprice (Crash Worship)
Matt Heyner (Malkuth / No-Neck Blues Band)
Joseph Stickney (Bear In Heaven / Rhys Chatham / Paul Duncan)
Matt Sweeney (Chavez / Zwan / Neil Diamond)
Samara Lubelski (Hall of Fame / Thurston Moore’s New Wave Bandits)
Pete Nolan (Magik Markers / Spectre Folk)
Abby Portner (Rings / Hex Message)
Tom Peyton (Fakers / KGB)
John Moloney (Sunburned Hand of the Man)
Andrya Ambro (Talk Normal)
David Sparks
Spencer Herbst (Matta Llama)
Timothy Monaghan (J.A.C.K.)
Andrew Barker (Gold Sparkle Band)
Joseph Noll (My Best Fiend)
Dave Witte (Municipal Waste)
Nick Lesley (Necking / Gunung Sari)
Jim Sykes (Parts and Labor)
Michael Evans (God Is My Co-Pilot)
Dong-Ping Wong (Necking)
Spencer Sweeney
Nondor Nevai (Aborted Christ Child)
Jonathan Lockie (Sightings)
Dave Bergander (Celebration)
Jules Scott Key (Metric / Bang Lime)
Yuval Lion (Pink Noise)
Ronnie Seward (Whooping Crane)
Corinne Jones (Effi Briest)
Adam Lee (Let’s Go Bowling)
Nancy Garcia (Monotract / Thurston Moore)
Ben McConnell  (Phosphorescent)
Pascal Spengemann (Hex Message)
Speck Brown (Orphan)
Laura Rogers (The Rogers Sisters)
Rupert Clervaux (Sian Alice Group)
Kyle Warren (Dinowalrus)
Adam Marnie (The Mess of New Mexico)
Alex Epton (Spank Rock / XXXchange)
Otto Hauser (Espers / Bert Jansch / Vashti Bunyan)
Nick DeCarmine (Slow Dynamte)
Frank Haines (Blanko and Noiry)
Brian Deran
Marcus Burrowes (Rockersnyc)
Avi Cohen (Soiled Mattress and the Springs / Silk Flowers
Emmy Miller (Xtreme Violence / The Peppermints)
Ryan Tozzi
Oran Canfield (Child Abuse)
Erik Rappin (A.R.E. Weapons)
Matt McCauley (A.R.E. Weapons)
Brian McPeck (A.R.E. Weapons)
Brian Weitz (Animal Collective)
Kyle Simon (Baby Talk)
Danny Tunick (Arnold Dreyblatt / Fakers)
Leah Moskowitz (Bloody for Me)
Joe Wong (Parts and Labor)
Nathan Corbin (Excepter)
Hamish Kilgour (Clean and the Great Unwashed / Samara Lubelski)
Linnea Vedder Shults (LIGHTS)
Lacy Lancaster (Durty Nanas)
Kathleen Cholewka (Les Sans Culottes / Discovery)
Noah Lennox (Panda Bear / Animal Collective)
James Buonantuono (Other Passengers / Ruby Glass)
Sadie Laska (I.U.D. / Extreme Violence)
Keith Connolly (No-Neck Blues Band)
Jason Mills
James Corrigan (ON?OFF / Wool, Rivers)
Miles Levy (Malcolm Mooney / No Doctors)
Tommy Rouse (Entrance)
Eric Cohen (Caroliner Rainbow)
Christopher Weingarten (ex-Parts and Labor)
Tim Evans (Bogan Dust
Ian Vanek (Japanther)
Chris Millstein (Jah Division)
Nick Ray (Golden Triangle)
Travis Chance (Usurp Synapse)
Michael Colin (Aa)

Via Pitchfork

After the Jump is putting on a nice little show at the Music Hall of Williamsburg on June 21. HEALTH, Titus Andronicus, Pattern is Movement, Project Jenny, Project Jan, DJ XXXchange (Spank Rock) and more will be there. Get your tickets here.

I am sending a heartfelt Get Well to Spank Rock, who had to have emergency surgery in Indio CA right before his set at Coachella. He missed that show and he will miss his set at Studio B this Friday night. He is recovering now in Florida.

Anyone who wants a refund can contact the club but with Brazilian Girls and others still on the bill I think it will still be a fantastic show to celebrate their new rooftop garden.

Greenpoint’s Studio B is opening up a rooftop garden and for the occasion Brazilian Girls and Spank Rock will be playing there on May 2. This show is sure to be lots of fun so get your tickets here.

Photo by Chad Nicholson, licensed under CC by SA.

McCarren Pool is back for another summer as a concert venue–woohoo! Last year I saw many excellent bands there, including Ted Leo & the Pharmacists, Ghostland Observatory, Spank Rock and friends, and the Thermals. This year, the first show they announced is not a free one (boo), but it is a good one–M.I.A. and Holy Fuck on June 6. Tickets go on sale Saturday at noon.

NYC-band Blonde Acid Cult have a new video for “Shake It Loose”, directed by Lance Drake. Click here to see it. Also you can see them live coming up:

3.28 SCOPE ART N.Y V.I.P PARTY @ THE TRIBECA GRAND HOTEL, MADHATTAN, New York

4.1 THROWED WITH E-MARCE AND CHRIS DEVLIN OF SPANK ROCK, BOSTON, Massachusetts

4.4 RUFF CLUB @ THE ANNEX , MADHATTAN, New York

5.1 CRASHIN’ IN AT GALAPAGOS WITH THE BLAKES, BROOKLYN, New York

New Chicago hip-hop diva Kid Sister, friends with the likes of Spank Rock and Kanye West, has posted a new remix. Click here to check it out.

She will be in New York on January 25th with A-Trak and blog sensations Cool Kids (who will be at Studio B the night before), playing at the Museum of Natural History before heading to Australia in February. Click here for more info.