It’s that time of year when CMJ Showcases and parties will start be announced. One of the first is from Sub Pop & Hardly Art which features a stellar lineup including J Mascis and Jacuzzi Boys performing at the Mercury Lounge on Thursday October 20th. Read on for set times.
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Photos of Fucked Up opening up for Dinosaur Jr’s latest tour performing Bug in it’s entirety. The band played some new songs like “Queen of Hearts” and “The Other Shoe” along with favorites like “I Hate Summer” and “Son The Father”.

Frank Turner crossed the pond to play a super sold out solo show at the Knitting Factory with Franz Nicolay (formerly of The Hold Steady) opening. Read more for photos.

Yuck‘s lead singer/guitarist Daniel Blumberg came onto the stage hunched over the microphone, almost mimicking the crude drawing on their album cover as he performed each song to perfection while making it look effortless. Their lengthy set before Tame Impala found the band performing a good chunk of tracks off their self-titled album, with highlights being “Get Away”, “Georgia” and “Operation”, the only song with guitarist Max Bloom on lead vocals. If you missed them, your in luck because the band will be back in a couple weeks with a headlining set at Bowery Ballroom.

Tame Impala played an incredible show to a smoke-filled room at Webster Hall Monday night. The Aussie psych-rockers played an-hour-and-15-minute-long set, which included “It Is Not Meant to Be”, “Lucidity”, and “Expectation” from their 2010 album Innerspeaker. The most cheers, however, came after a mindblowingly amazing cover of Massive Attack’s “Angel”, which you may remember is the first track off their hugely successful 1998 album Mezzanine…

Generation Records had one of the most stacked Record Store Day lineups with performances by Obits (pictured above), The Jay Vons, I Hate Our Freedom and Spa Castles along with DJ Sets from Yo La Tengo, Eric Davidson of New Bomb Turks, Tom Scharpling of WFMU’s Best Show, Bill Dolan and more. Read more for photos of the festivities.

Indie shoegazenoiserockers ohnommoon are definitely a band to watch out for in New York City. The band is currently recording their first 7 inch, so no music as of yet, but you can catch then live next at The Rock Shop in Brooklyn on 4/21. Read more for some photos from their set at Piano’s.

Here are our photos of Cold War Kids recent show at Terminal 5 with No Age and Baths opening. The band ran through a high energy setlist that included tracks from all of their albums with a focus on new songs from their latest Mine Is Yours. Check out the photos below and photos of opener No Age here.

No Age opened up for Cold War Kids in an oddly paired show that was moved from Radio City Music Hall to Terminal 5. No Age came out sans drums and played a set of experimental noise manipulated through keyboards, guitars and Randy Randall’s massive pedal board. The band played no songs from their catalog though maybe this was some sort of preview of new material. The band left the stage to boos and the typical “you suck” shouts from the Cold War Kids fans. Oddly enough the band also did have any merch with them just photocopied pieces of paper that said “Recognize Love <3 No Age” (pictured below) with the slogan also printed on a white bed sheet behind them on stage.

Bright Eyes brought out all the hits for night one of their performances at Radio City Music Hall for an epic 2 hour set after openers Superchunk and Wild Flag.

After many years of eliminating Pinkerton songs from their set list Weezer finally decided to jump on the album show bandwagon to perform album shows for both Pinkerton and The Blue Album. I opted to go to the Pinkerton show as Blue tracks have always been sprinkled throughout their set lists. Even after seeing album shows for The Pixies and Jimmy Eat World among others, I would hands down say this was my favorite. The band started the night starting with their current album Hurly and going backward through their career. Though the newer songs are a not their finest moment, I think you would find even the most elitist classic Weezer hipster purist hard pressed not to smile as Rivers jumped off trampolines and ran around the VIP area belting out the tracks like “The Greatest Man That Ever Lived.”

A surprise and highlight of the night came when Rivers shouted “1995 – B-sides!” and they broke into the Angus soundtrack jam “You Gave Your Love To Me Softly” into “Susanne” and “Jaime.” It was a rare treat to hear these songs played right into “Only In Dreams” before an intermission in which longtime roadie, webmaster etc. Karl…

The Sword are playing bigger venues and still shredding hard and their new drummer killed it. Check out some photos below.

Oh Land performed to a packed house at the Mercury Lounge last night with quite a few people still waiting outside during her set. After all of her hype from CMJ, it seems that she could already be headlining bigger venues in NYC. Check out photos of the show below.

Well shot live video from The Mercury Lounge in New York City that really captures how great The Joy Formidable are live.

OFF! the new punk rock supergroup is doing everything like it’s the early 80s. The band got legends like Raymond Pettibon to do their 7 inch artwork and Glen Friedman showed up to shoot this in-store performance. Check out a few photos I snapped below.

More photos and set list after the jump.