We received the following dispatch an hour ago, regarding electro hiphop group Yo Majesty's upcoming show at Nectar: "Unfortunately, Jwl. B of Yo Majesty will not be attending the tour commencing today due to personal reasons making it impossible for her to travel. Shunda K will continue on with the Yo Majesty show, as she has in the past to great reviews." WHAT? Only one topless Christian lesbian? Where's the fun in that? No word as to whether Mad Rad will still be opening, considering their (typical) douchebag hipster behavior recently got them banned from several clubs in town. more ›

HIS NAME IS SPIEGELMAN: Maus-keteer Art Spiegelman has a new graphic memoir out, Breakdowns: A Portrait of the Artist as a Young %@&*! The book "traces the artist’s evolution from a MAD-comics obsessed boy, to a neurotic adult examining the effect of his parents’ memories of Auschwitz on his own son." He's at Town Hall for what you'd hope is a multimedia "reading," otherwise it seems like, you know, the graphic part would be lost in translation. more ›