CHICAGO
Spoon, The Sea and Cake - Metro
Switch - Smart Bar
Black Kids, These Are Powers - Empty Bottle
Jon Brion - Harris Theater
NEW YORK CITY
Patti Smith - Bowery Ballroom (early show)
Les Savy Fav - Bowery Ballroom (late show)
Dirty Projectors, Cex, Ecstatic Sunshine, WZT Hearts - Knitting Factory
The Dresden Dolls - Grand Ballroom at the Manhattan Center
Earl Greyhound, The Big Sleep - Mercury Lounge
Mr. Brownstone ("The World's Drunkest Guns N' Roses Tribute Band", also features "fully tended bar on stage", "massive Guitar Hero contest with final on-stage battle", "raffle to join band on stage for a song") - Music Hall of Williamsburg
Dean & Britta - Maxwell's (in Hoboken)
Gogol Bordello - Terminal 5
Nellie McKay - Joe's Pub
Slick Rick, Kudu, Moby (DJ set), Holy Ghost (DJ set) - Studio B
LOS ANGELES
Justice (DJ set), Peaches, 2 Live Crew, Busy P, A-Trak - HARD New Year's Eve Music Festival
Rufus Wainwright, Belinda Carlisle - Walt Disney Concert Hall
Bloc Party (DJ set), The Rapture (DJ set), Talib Kweli - Roosevelt Hotel
Dengue Fever - Temple Bar
MSTRKRFT - Giant Maximus
Nas, Salt-N-Pepa - House of Blues
SAN FRANCISCO
The Mars Volta (acoustic and electric sets), Peanut Butter Wolf, The Eternals, Nobody - Bill Graham Civic Auditorium
Diplo - Temple Bar
Junior Boys (DJ set) - Mezzanine
Earth, Neurosis (includes free show-only Tribes of Neurot/Earth 7") - Great American Music Hall
Melvins, Comets on Fire - Slim's
Patton Oswalt - Cobb's Comedy Club
MIAMI
R. Kelly - American Airlines Arena
PHILADELPHIA
Datarock, Low B - Electric Factory
OKLAHOMA CITY
The Flaming Lips - Cox Center
Evangelicals, Starlight Mints - Cox Center (Flaming Lips pre-show)
ATLANTA
Band of Horses - The Earl
LAS VEGAS
Kanye West - The Pearl
WASHINGTON, DC
Georgie James - Rock and Roll Hotel
MINNEAPOLIS
Brother Ali - 7th St. Entry
PORTLAND
Wu-Tang Clan - Roseland Theater
BOSTON
Harry and the Potters - Hynes Convention Center
MONTREAL
Crystal Castles, Guns n Bombs, Curses! - SAT
EDMONTON
Digitalism, Shout Out Out Out - Starlite Room
LONDON
2ManyDjs, Simian Mobile Disco, Mylo - Turnmills
Super Furry Animals, Deerhoof - Royal Festival Hall
Tunng, Kevin Rowland of Dexy's Midnight Runners, The Horrors - 93 Ft East
GLASGOW
Dan Deacon - Optimo
Bis, Errors - ABC
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