Don't get pissed at us if you miss this. Pic by Puja Patel.

​As your favorite music-news outlet has probably already informed you, the indomitable LCD Soundsystem have announced their final show: April 2nd at Madison Square Garden, a venue unthinkable nearly a decade ago when the band started and more or less inevitable now. Yes, this show will probably sell out. Yes, it will probably be incredible.

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We wouldn't want the accordion player to injure himself

​Perhaps you were unaware that famed James Brown trombonist cohort Fred Wesley has recently been dallying in a "klezmer funk" band called Abraham Inc.; your unfamiliarity will last a little longer, alas, as their scheduled gig at Le Poisson Rouge tonight has been canceled, due to their being stranded in the Midwest thanks to an ice storm that has basically made attempting to walk anywhere today look and feel like one giant unending Mr. Bean sketch, so maybe this was best for everyone involved. Godspeed getting to that Best Coast/Wavves show tonight and so forth; if you're not feeling up to braving the elements, just crank this up and bang your head against the wall until you've given yourself a concussion, and that will replicate the experience of trying to make it to this show pretty well.

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Via Todd P's Twitter

​So the Titus Andronicus NYE show was quite the time: First it got moved from Ridgewood Masonic Temple to 285 Kent due to liquor-license woes, then a bunch of people apparently lost their stuff. (Per TA ringleader Patrick Stickles: "Our sincerest apologies to those who had their belongings tampered with or carried off by unseen malefactors.") Ah, but maybe you just drunkenly left your coat there, eh? Had a bit too much Four Loko? Recognize your shit in the photo up there? Would you be so kind as to come get it?

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Would you use this bathroom? Photo via Viceland Today

​After CBGB's unspeakably vile bathroom went the way of the rest of the erstwhile punk venue, the truly immortally foul New York rock bathrooms mostly moved east, across the river, taking up unfortunate new residence in Williamsburg's myriad concert/communal living spaces. Perhaps not surprisingly, the most trafficked ones have tended to be the most vile: Glasslands, the Market Hotel, and perhaps worst of all, the Silent Barn. Luckily (for us, that is), some desperate videographer so desperately needed a place to shoot a music video last week that he agreed to clean the Silent Barn's ancient, flypaper-riddled bathroom in exchange for being able to shoot there. "Years of being shipped against my will to cut-rate sleepaway camps where my quiet and chubby nature had relegated me to the position of 'latrine swabber' had prepared me well for this moment," writes Matthew Caron. Then he posted the video:

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On Sunday afternoon, FIFA will crown the 2010 World Cup winner. At that very same time, Jelly NYC will be hosting its first Pool Party of 2010. To immerse yourself locally in the World Cup final experience, all you need is a football-friendly liquor-licensed establishment, a large-screen TV, and the determination to secure a barstool by noon. To participate in this weekend's Jelly NYC Pool Party, all you need is a KFC Double Down sandwich, a Borat thong, and a bottle of chafing lube. But -- fake suspense -- that's not all. In order to prepare adequately for this weekend's Williamsburg Waterfront free show, here are a few other things you should know:

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​It does not compare to last year's graphic, in which the organizers of Jelly NYC's free summer concert series banned purple Uggs, snakes, throwing stars, and grenades, but we reserve a special place in our hearts for the annual release of the list of theoretically prohibited items at the Williamsburg Waterfront. On this year's roster of contraband for the newly announced 2010 roster? Wayfarers (bold), salvia (sensible), Pies 'N Thighs (hilarious), and sunscreen (highly impractical, sadistic, confusing). In a novel gesture, they've tacked on a list of "Brings" as well: "Ghetto Loony Tunes" (?), your family (??), and glowsticks, which actualizes the latent hippy/raver vibe a little bit too much for us, but whatever. Leave 'em home for the Cap'n Jazz show and you can do whatever you want after that. [JellyNYC]

As the newly-crowned Nostradamus of the 2010 New York free summer concert circuit, we feel compelled to intervene here, and ask that when you are inevitably denied entry to this show tomorrow--which is actually being held in the beautiful Vanderbilt Hall, adjacent to the Main Concourse, and thus not directly in the path of Grand Central's Friday evening summer mass exodus--you walk away quietly and peacefully, like an adult, as opposed to chucking a chair off the balcony of Michael Jordan's The Steak House N.Y.C.

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You kind of have to assume that anything that disappears into the Death By Audio sticky-floor vortex doesn't have a great chance of ever being seen again, but let's give it a shot, New York: dreamy local bedroom pop outfit Soft Black have lost their notebook, and they're looking to get it back. There are songs in it. Anybody? We're gonna notice if your band just happens to come out with "Breathe Fire, Pt 2," don't think that we won't. [@SoftBlack/@BrooklynVegan]