While making their first trip to these shores since 2006, Norwegian shoegaze titans Serena-Maneesh stopped by Viva Radio to spin some tunes for Naked Fridays. Serena-Maneesh’s Naked Friday has now arrived, and it’s tomorrow, February 5, starting at 4PM EST. Tune in at www.viva-radio.com/nakedfridays.

Although London’s The xx haven’t been in the US since December, luckily we got the stellar trio into WXPN to record a World Cafe session at the end of last year. And, again, luckily that session is due to air today at 2PM EST. Tune in on 88.5 on regular old radio or online at XPN.org. It’s sure to be worth your while and will help to stave off your xx hunger until the band returns in March.

Hi New York City – Brooklyn Brewery, INSOUND, Paste Magazine, and Rough Trade present: BASIA BULAT album release party (!!) for Heart Of My Own!! Come listen to the record, purchase it, and attend an exclusive performance by Basia herself at 8pm (who is in town playing a few other shows), and enter for some sweet promo giveaways! Did I mention $1 beers until gone? Be right there…

RSVP here: pastemagazine.com/basia (but get there early! based on capacity-)

To celebrate the release of their sophomore album, Contra, which hits shelves tomorrow, January 12, the lads of Vampire Weekend will perform today on KCRW’s Morning Becomes Eclectic. The session begins at 11:15AM PST/2:15PM EST, so listen accordingly online or terrestrially at 89.9FM in the sunny SoCal region. You can also catch the band live tonight on The Tonight Show with Conan O’Brien. Release week is fun!

If you’re in a major city, or a kind of big city, or a big campus, or just a bar that has a jukebox: chances are, if you google it – you will find a CONTRA party going on right next to you in the next two weeks. Even better, if you’re in New York City, the band will be in attendance and DJing at the party. Presented by XL, SPiNYC, SPIN Magazine, and Other Music, sponsored by Corona, Fuji Cameras, and Creative Footwear.. the list is endless, as well as the giveaways! Enter the ping pong tournament at the party and win tickets to the upcoming (Sold Out) NYC Vampire Weekend show @ United Palace! RSVP via contra@spin.com – but arrive early for the open bar at 8pm!

Stop by Origami Vinyl next Thursday Dec. 17th for a solo instore performance…

Origami Vinyl
1816 W. Sunset Blvd.
Los Angeles CA
213 413 3030

(photo by Chrissy Piper)

New York gets itself a lot of Mountain Goats action this week. If you weren’t at last night’s sold-out Webster Hall show, you’ll hopefully be at tonight’s sold-out Bell House show. And if you can’t make it to that one either, or if you’re like us and you just can’t get enough Goats, you may want to move it on over to the Upright Citizens Brigade Theatre tonight for the latest installment of WFMU’s Seven Second Delay, which will feature a solo performance by the one and only John Darnielle.

The show starts at 6PM, and if you’re too cheap to pay the $5 admission fee or too inconveniently-located to make it, you can always listen at 91.1FM (or 90.1FM if you live in the mysterious “Hudson Valley”), and of course the online-inclined are encouraged to tune in at wfmu.org.

If you’re not hep to the latest Mountain Goats jive, the Best New Music’d The Life Of The World To Come, you can remedy that at our webstore.

I mean that in the best possible way.
This Friday, December 4th, The xx will be at Newbury Comics Newbury St. store for the last of their free, all ages instores along this tour. Come check it out. Exciting.

Newbury Comics
332 Newbury St.
Boston
617 236 4930

photo by Reuben Cox

Elvis Perkins In Dearland continue to trek across these United States, stopping in Boston today for a show at The Paradise in the evening and, this afternoon, a live set at WERS. Tune in at 88.9FM or at wers.org starting at 1:30PM EST.