John Darnielle may be best known for his band The Mountain Goats, but he's also the latest blogger with a book; this weekend he's in town as both a musician and an author. Tomorrow night Darnielle will read from his book, the latest in the 33 1/3 series, about Black Sabbath's Master of Reality; which he wrote through the voice of a 15-year-old boy who's been institutionalized. Before taking a seat at Housing Works on......

The Hungry March Band humbly calls itself "the greatest brass march band of all time." The ragamuffin ensemble has played street festivals, political demonstrations, subways, the Staten Island Ferry and Coney Island, with a songbook that draws from jazz great Charles Mingus, Sun Ra and Duke Ellington to rockers Black Sabbath and Pigbag. This summer are bringing their mix of New Orleans, Gypsy, Indian wedding, Latin, punk, hip-hop mania to Europe. Complete with dancers, hula......

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Gothamist loves that on any given night, the performers and writers who create shows like SNL, Conan and the Daily Show are performing live at other venues around the city. It’s just one of the many reasons we love living here and this week it seems like there are more opportunities to check them out than usual. Tonight at 9:30pm, the PIT [154 W. 29th St.] presents Late Night with Conan O’Brien writer and performer......

Gothamist is getting old: At the Built to Spill concert last night, we were irked beyond belief by the white-hat type frat boys flailing around and yelling "Slayer!" or "Black Sabbath!" in the poorest ironic way possible (maybe irony should be dead), while their idiot girlfriends decided to emit ear-piercing screams for the hell of it. Gothamist is contemplating a cranky old man style letter to Irving Plaza ("In my day...") but we know......