Fucked Up put out one of the most ambitious records of the year with David Comes to Life - a concept record telling the story of people who are young and in love. As part of the most recent Record Store Day, the band put out David’s Town, a record consisting of fictional bands from the fictional town where David Comes to Life takes place.

Among the made up punk bands like Porcelain on Porcelain, Hateful Coil, and The Wavy Originals, there was this gem from Animal Man. And now, their song “Do You Feed” comes to life in video form. It’s Fucked Up guitarist Ben “Young Governor” Cook and bassist Sandy “Mustard Gas” Miranda walking around, eating food, dancing. You know, the story of people who are young and in love.

Fucked Up – Do You Feed from Lance Ludwig on Vimeo.

Monster Island will once again bid adieu with another farewell street party. But this time, the Todd P crew will be serving up a BBQ, soundtracked to a massive acoustic lineup. So bring those picnic blankets, Solo cups,  favorite eats for grillin’ and box of long neck candles (huh?).

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Monster Island Farewell:
Autumnal Unamplified Acoustic BBQ

WHEN: Saturday, October 1: Noon to 7PM
* If it rains, party moves to the following day – Sunday, October 2: Noon to 7PM

WHERE: River Street (between Metropolitan Avenue and N. 3rd Street)
* If authorities shut it down, party moves to Grand Ferry Park
* If it gets too big, party moves to the northwest corner of East River State Park

Short 2 song acoustic / unamplified sets from:

12:10pm White Suns
12:20pm Baybee Teeth
12:30pm Life Size Maps
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Jeff Mangum

This weekend, the lucky and the wealthy will be at All Tomorrow’s Parties. The intellectual and the pretentious will be at the New Yorker Festival. And everyone else will be scrambling to find something awesome. Summer is officially over, and October — one of the busiest music months of the year — is around the corner. Luckily, you have us to help sort you out.

If you attend just two New Yorker Festival events, we hope that they’re St. Vincent (Friday) and The National (Sunday). You’ll have an opportunity to not only see the bands discuss their music, but to see a couple of great shows well in advance of their other scheduled New York dates. If you are 50+, take comfort in the fact that you will finally be at an indie show surrounded by people your own age!

For those of you who can afford to drop a few hundred bucks on All Tomorrow’s Parties in Jersey, we’d like you to know how jealous we are.  Jeff Mangum and Portishead are enough — not to mention Cults, Battles, Chavez, The Album Leaf and the rest of the fest.

Find the rest of our Top 10 shows for the next seven days below — and check back later this week for our CMJ preview. Finally, for all of those that were not able to attend a festival this weekend, I leave you with this quote from my friend, Herman Blume:

You guys have it real easy. I never had it like this where I grew up. But I send my kids here because the fact is you go to one of the best schools in the country: Rushmore. Now, for some of you it doesn’t matter. You were born rich and you’re going to stay rich. But here’s my advice to the rest of you: Take dead aim on the rich boys. Get them in the crosshairs and take them down. Just remember, they can buy anything but they can’t buy backbone. Don’t let them forget it. Thank you.

TOP 10 SHOWS FOR THE NEXT SEVEN DAYS

10. Gardens & Villa @ Glasslands Gallery w/ Youth Lagoon & Gem Club

Friday, September 30^th at 9pm – 21+ $10 -> tickets

9. The National @ Sir State37 part of the New York Festival
Saturday, October 1^th at 7pm – 21+, Sold Out (more…)

L Magazine just called our attention to their Brooklyn neighborhood power rankings.

Apparently, “Williamsburg long ago ceased to be the epicenter of what is “cool” about Brooklyn.”

Relatedly:

This Saturday, creatives will light up the Greenpoint waterfront.

Bring to Light 2011 is the free nighttime public art festival showcasing site-specific installations of light, sound, performance and projection art for the purpose of re-imagining public space and civic life. The event simultaneously takes place with Nuit Blanche – the awesome annual worldwide arts festival where museums, galleries and other cultural institutions open their doors to the public free of charge and all night long.

Explore our “White Night” on Saturday, October 1 from 6pm to 1am.

Remember falling in love with Feist? Maybe it happened when she sang on “Anthems for a Seventeen-Year-Old Girl,” or maybe it was when you saw her on an iPod commercial. Well now she’s got a new record coming out called Metals. It’s a metal record. (it’s not a metal record.) You can put in your e-mail address below and listen to the whole thing and fall in love with Leslie all over again.

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In commemoration the 20th Anniversary of Nevermind…

This Sunday, October 2nd from 12pm-6pm at The Crown Victoria Bar (one of our favorite must visit new spots!) is the first mobile meet up for trucks (not just food) in Williamsburg. The event is being called Truck Yeah!

For the first annual Mobile Meet Up, a group of eleven trucks, each representing a different player in the rapidly growing “mobile culture” of New York City—from gourmet food, to fine art, music, design, and fashion—will convene in Brooklyn.

We’re excited to see Art Cart NYC’s mobile exhibition with work from Amia Yokoyama and Kennedy Yanko. Yokoyama will transform the truck into a cave-like environment and induce altered states of awareness through the use of light and sound. Employing digital frequency modulation, algorithms, and light projections, she will channel the sacred nature of prehistoric caves in a contemporary iteration. Yanko will stage her paroxysm paint sculptures inside and around the truck. These poured pieces are boundless outbursts of vibrant pigments, which form eerie, intoxicating, surreal sculptures that are malleable to their surroundings.

There’s no better way to spend one of the last nice Sunday’s of the year, we think you’ll like it.

Current Truck Yeah participants include:

Art Cart NYC™
Bang Bang NYC
BangOn! NYC
Coolhaus Ice Cream Sandwiches
El Camino ARTRV
Etta Place
Gawker Artists
Green Pirate Juice Truck
Lonely Goat Dance Company
Rickshaw Dumpling Truck
Tiffany Nicole Mobile Vintage Shop
The Mud Truck
Truck Farm

Truck Yeah: Sunday October 2nd, 12pm-6pm. The Crown Victoria Bar, 60 S. 2nd Street at Wythe.

On the heels of ‘Bizness’ comes the latest video from tUnE-yArDs 2011 release, w h o k i l l, ‘Gangsta‘. It was directed by Merrill Garbus herself. Definitely a different style than their last release, but still worth a look. Check it out!