This Week's Nostalgia (5/15-5/20)

Taken at the Bell House. Hall & Oates headline the Great Googa Mooga Festival on Sunday.

By Trista Hou (Binshu Hou) & Chris

Trista is being a good student and preparing for finals, so while she did send over her picks for This Week's Nostalgia, she didn't have time to write about any of them. That's why I'm chiming in to highlight what's going on this week in New York City because, holy shit, there are a lot of great shows to check out. 

EULA (who played FN's 1st Anniversary Concert) will be performing twice this week. Tonight you can catch them at The Studio at Webster Hall and then again on Thursday at Death By Audio. What's that? You haven't seen EULA yet? Well then you're slacking. Get out to one of these shows, because they're one hell of a live act. Other more intimate shows worth noting are instrumental psychedelic weirdos Delicate Steve, who will headline Mercury Lounge on Thursday and lo-fi connoisseur R. Stevie Moore, who will play 285 Kent on Friday.

On the bigger side of things, Beach House will be playing a small show at Bowery Ballroom before heading off on tour. They'll be back to play SummerStage on July 23. Their (very good) new album Bloom is out today.

On Thursday, Legendary reggae producer and dub master Lee "Scratch" Perry plays Gramercy Theatre. We also have the two-day Great Googa Mooga Festival this weekend at Prospect Park to look forward to, which will feature The Roots headlining on Saturday and then mother-fucking Hall & Oates on Sunday. Don't worry, they won't actually harm any of your mothers.

...or will they?

Check out the rest of the week's shows below...

ATP I'll Be Your Mirror USA 2012 Festival Tickets On Sale Today, You Should Buy Them

Yep. We gave you quite a compelling reason to get psyched for All Tomorrow's Parties (ATP) upcoming I'll Be Your Mirror USA 2012 festival back in December, and in advance of general tickets sales kicking off TODAY (2/27) at 10am ET, ATP gave us a ton more:

"ATP are very pleased to confirm our return to Asbury Park, New Jersey USA with a new I'll Be Your Mirror event, the Saturday night of which will be headlined by The Afghan Whigs (who have reunited after a 13 year hiatus) and curated by their frontman Greg Dulli. Formed in 1986, the bands career from then until 2001 saw them release six acclaimed albums during their career. Fusing classic rock with grunge-era distortion and a heavy soul influence, The Afghan Whigs were one of the most renowned live bands of their time and ATP is excited to be a part of this long awaited reformation.

We are also very excited to present Grammy Award winner LOUIS C.K. (handpicked by Greg Dulli) who will be making a rare festival appearance, the fantastic THE ROOTS, JOSÉ GONZÁLEZ, a show from the reformed THE MAKE-UP and many others, see below for full line-up confirmed so far."

If your credit card's not at the ready, you may want to check your pulse. Go to ATP's website at 9:59:59am and get your window refresh on until you get a ticket. and check out the most recent confirmed line-up. You can also check out a clip of The Afghan Whigs performing "Debonair" for a very young Conan O'Brien.

And hey, if you wanna grab ME a ticket in honor of my 30th birthday that weekend ::cough::, that would be rad indeed.


ATP IBYM USA 2012 Initial Lineup:

Chosen by Greg Dulli (The Afghan Whigs):

THE AFGHAN WHIGS
LOUIS C.K.
THE ROOTS
JOSÉ GONZÁLEZ
MARK LANEGAN BAND
DIRTY THREE
THE ANTLERS
THE DIRTBOMBS performing Ultraglide In Black
SCRAWL
SHARON VAN ETTEN
EMERALDS
VETIVER
QUINTRON AND MISS PUSSYCAT
CHARLES BRADLEY AND THE EXTRAORDINAIRES
DJ QUESTLOVE
REIGNING SOUND

+ more to be confirmed

Chosen by ATP:

THE MAKE-UP
(reforming for IBYM)
HOT SNAKES
THE MAGIC BAND
AUTOLUX
THEE OH SEES
FACTORY FLOOR
DEATH GRIPS
I BREAK HORSES

+ more to be confirmed

Watch Black Star Perform (With The Roots) On Late Night With Jimmy Fallon

The legendary duo of Talib Kweli and Yasiin Bey (man it's gonna take awhile to stop calling him Mos Def) gave us a taste of their upcoming Aretha mixtape around Thanksgiving times  with "You Already Knew." Last night, they kicked 2012 off right with a Late Night With Jimmy Fallon performance during which they rocked not only that song live with The Roots but also - hold onto your damn hats, hardcore fans  - "Little Brother," a J Dilla-produced cut that only appeared on the soundtrack to the movie The Hurricane.

Watch both performances below, along with a little vignette of Roots drummer / DJ / vinyl master Questlove discussing the origin of "Little Brother" and how he was in the room when Dilla made the beat for it. Classic stuff, you guys.

Watch The Short Film Based On The Roots' New Album

Check out more shots of The Roots @ Highline Ballroom!

Nuts to everyone who already put out their year-end lists... The Roots, the hardest working band in showbiz and the only good thing to come out of Philly (aside from cheesesteaks and a couple of our friends), released their latest studio album undun last week to widespread praise. Their first concept album, it's an understandably dark tale about the rise and fall of the fictional criminal Redford Stephens, whose character is built upon the real struggles of people close to the band.

Naturally, this would lend itself well to an accompanying short film, and that's exactly what happened. Check out this 10-minute flick after the jump via Nah Right, featuring part of my personal nominee for Hip-Hop Track of 2011 "Make My."

Photos: The Roots @ Highline Ballroom

The Roots @ Highline Ballroom - November 29, 2011
Photos: Chloe Lee

Because you can see them every night in the comforts of your own home, it’s easy to forget how prolific a studio band The Roots actually are. Since 1987, when lead MC Black Thought and drummer ?uestlove formed the beginnings of the group in Philadelphia, The Roots have released thirteen(!) studio albums, their most recent being undun (which we posted about yesterday). How they manage to still release a new album every couple years, all the while backing up numerous rappers and singers (Jay-Z, John Legend, Common and Nas to name a few), plus appear on Jimmy Fallon five nights a week is something of an anomaly.

Needless to say, their live show hasn’t suffered in the least--despite the many factors that should result in extreme exhaustion for the group--and last night they proved as such by playing the Highline Ballroom to a sold out crowd, a feat they will repeat tonight and then again on December 5. Both upcoming shows are sold out, but a limited number of tickets will be sold at the door at show time. Photographer Chloe Lee was at the show last night and you can take a look at her photos below…

Stream The Roots' "Undun" In Full At NPR

Just to settle this now: no one in the music business works harder than The Roots. Questlove is a genius DJ and fountain of musical knowledge, and the band plows through tours on top of their current day job as the house band on Late Night With Jimmy Fallon, where they most recently earned our eternal respect for playing Fishbone's "Lyin' Ass Bitch" when Michelle Bachmann stopped by.

And somewhere inbetween all of that, they've managed to release their billionth album, undun. You can now, as always, stream it in full a week ahead of its December 6 release at NPR. Get it.

Thurston Moore & Bob Mould Played Jimmy Fallon + Bonus Thurston Moore Videos from La Blogotheque

As you can tell by our recent posts, we're pretty big Thurston Moore fans here at Fucking Nostalgic. And as we mentioned last night on our Facebook page, Thurston stopped by Late Night With Jimmy Fallon last night to perform a live version of "Circulation" off of his excellent new album Demolished Thoughts. Check out the performance above, as well as a web-only exclusive cut of another standout song from the album, "Blood Never Lies," below.