2013 CBGB Fest Is On Now: Picks on What to See

The second-annual CBGB Festival is underway at venues near and far from the original Lower East Side club, and music lovers will be able to continue their festival bingeing when the CMJ Music Marathon starts on Oct. 15th. Here are some places to find listings of the many events, with picks by music critics and other sources.

The CBGB Festival is back, with shows throughout the city.

See the official 2013 CBGB Festival schedule to get the lay of the land for the showcases, panels, films, and more still to come. The Village Voice offers its picks for bands and speakers to see, and for music-only events, check out the Oh My Rockness guide to the CBGB Festival.

As with last year's CBGB Fest, there will be a free concert in Times Square with multiple stages, and it's taking place tomorrow from 10 a.m. till 7 p.m. The festival says there will be five stages and more than two dozen bands and performers. The South Stage will feature Lisa Loeb, The Wallflowers, a DJ set by James Murphy (of LCD Soundsystem), and My Morning Jacket.

The North Stage will have "up and coming artists," the site says, as well as supergroupthe Divine Fits and Brooklyn indie favs Grizzly Bear. There will also be music on acoustic stages.

Last year's free Times Square show was fun (though eerily sparsely attended until the late afternoon), and featured performances by The Hold Steady and Clap Your Hands Say Yeah, among others. 

Out in the clubs, tomorrow features highlights including Bell X1 at Bowery Ballroom and Meat Puppets at Brooklyn Bowl. On Sunday, the festival's final day, the schedule looks to be all films, except for one notable live music event: legendary rock and jazz drummer Ginger Baker at Iridium.

Free Album Streaming: New CDs from Garland Jeffreys, My Morning Jacket, Bon Iver, & More

My Morning Jacket plays the title song from its new album "Circuital" on VH1 Storytellers.  "Circuital" is currently streaming free on KCRW.

This week's free album previews include a lot of indie and alternative bands, including the new CDs from the hugely popular jam band My Morning Jacket, New York singer-songwriter Garland Jeffreys,  and Justin Vernon, who performs under the name Bon Iver.

KCRW Album Preview: 

• "Circuital" by My Morning Jacket (streaming until June 21)
  
• "It’s A Corporate World" by Dale Earnhardt Jr. Jr. (streaming until June 28)

NPR First Listen:

• "Bon Iver" by Bon Iver

Spinner.com's Listening Party:

• "The King of In Between" by Garland Jeffreys
  
• "There Is a Way" by Dananananaykroyd

And a couple of notable collections/re-releases:

• "A Treasure" by Neil Young (live tracks from his 1984-85 tour, including several previously unreleased tracks. Find an L.A. Times story on the album here)
  
• "Bakesale" by Sebadoh (re-release of the band's fifth album)

Also, Spinner and AOL Music have some new albums by indie artists I'm not familiar with but want to check out, such as the Dear Hunter, WOODS, and Radical Dads.

Tickets for My Morning Jacket's Five-Day Run at Terminal 5 on Sale Fri., 6/18

Left: Jim James brings My Morning Jacket to Terminal 5 to perform five of its albums live, one night at a time, in October. 

My Morning Jacket is joining the performing-albums-live trend at New York's Terminal 5 in October, and tickets for all shows go on sale tomorrow, June 18th, at 12 Noon.

In a period of six days in late October the Louisville, Kentucky band will perform five shows, each featuring one its full-length studio albums, "along with additional songs and covers from each album’s time period." You can buy tickets for each My Morning Jacket show individually, or get a five-show pass. Here's the schedule:

* My Morning Jacket - Tennessee Fire - Mon., Oct. 18
* My Morning Jacket - At Dawn - Tues., Oct. 19
* My Morning Jacket - It Still Moves - Thurs., Oct. 21
* My Morning Jacket - Z - Fri., Oct. 22
* My Morning Jacket - Evil Urges - Sat., Oct. 23

Speaking of My Morning Jacket, they'll perform Dear God 2.0 with The Roots on Late Night With Jimmy Fallon on Friday, June 18th. The show starts at 12:35 a.m. Eastern time.