Dungen

Only a couple more weekends before Labor Day cuts off all the summer fun. Better get out there to one of these stellar gigs. (Seriously, this weekend’s lineup is ridiculous.)

Friday
The Guggenheim is breaking out a new live music series, It Came from Brooklyn. First up: The Walkmen, High Places and the Brooklyn “Steppers” Marching Band. Read our feature on the series here.

Animal Collective is back home (well, sorta) for two gigs at the Prospect Park Bandshell. The jamming electro-psychedelia goes down tonight and tomorrow.

The influential progressive-jazz percussionist Gerry Hemingway plays the Stone. He also plays there Sunday and at Cornelia Street Café next Saturday. Read our show preview here.

Swedish psych-poppers Dungen play their first New York City show as a full band in three years at the Bell House.

The ethereal voices of School of Seven Bells are joined by fast-rising cool Londoners the xx for a free show at the Seaport.

Hercules and Love Affair get the disco party started at the Gramercy Theatre. The group also plays the Music Hall of Williamsburg tomorrow.

And Wild Yaks—check the Volume later for a TONY in-office performance—get feisty at Pianos. They play Lit Lounge tomorrow, too.

Saturday
Many of the excellent bands from Friday play again tonight, but if you’re not into repeat offenders, perhaps the indie all-star tunes of the Phenomenal Handclap Band at BKLYN Yard are what you crave.

Forty years after his epic set at Woodstock, Richie Havens does one at City Winery.

Sunday
The junkyard electro troupe DD/MM/YYYY is the highlight of the Pool Party at East River State Park this week, even if Del the Funky Homosapien is headlining. Read our preview on the band here.

The Walkmen play again! This time they’re opening for the still-vital Dinosaur Jr. at SummerStage for a fantastic cap to the weekend.

It’s been a long wait to find out who/what was going to replace the free McCarren Pool shows, but we’ve finally got a lineup and, boy, is it a doozy! The shows will be taking place starting at 2pm at the Williamsburg Waterfront (East River State Park, 90 Kent Ave at North 9th St, Williamsburg, Brooklyn) every Sunday for eight weeks. That’s right; these concerts are not actually in a pool anymore. And if you don’t like music that much and are just going to pick up chicks or out-hipster the rest, there will be dodgeball and three-on-three basketball.

Also, here’s a little note that we found interesting from the press release: Disclaimer: Any and all underage drinking at The Pool Parties will result in prompt eviction from the premises and not being allowed to return for the duration of the series.

They should probably tell the Black Lips not to drink too.

Check the full lineup after the jump…

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Not for nothing did we dub DD/MM/YYYY band of the day on our SXSW blog—okay, so it’s not exactly a Grammy, but damn, this band is good. It played the Todd P stage, and that underground, we’re-in-on-something-special vibe permeates its music: groovy guitar/bass licks, rat-a-tat drums, yelped vocal riffs and such. It’s playing the Mercury Lounge tonight, along with justly hyped Cali popsters Wavves.

Hipsters not doin’ it for you?

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When in doubt, trust Todd P. The New York concert promoter may have a really annoying website and, perhaps, a more annoying following, but, sheesh, homey has put together some radical lineups for his day parties over at Ms. Bea’s.

I stopped by yesterday afternoon and had the pleasure of taking in a set by Toronto’s DD/MM/YYYY. The boys brought the electro heat to the tiny floor-level stage. The shrieky vocals and pounding rhythms may have been more appropriate for a darkened nightclub, but no one seemed to mind: After the show, there was a substantial line to buy the band’s record.

I’d recommend seeing them on any day, in any month or year. Fortunately, they’ll be in New York at the Mercury Lounge on March 30.

More photos after the jump…

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