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Here are some quick music industry updates: Wilco is streaming their new album "Wilco" live here A full review with photos by Brooklyn Vegan of Amanda Palmer's Neutral Milk Hotel-Inspired High School production can be found here Blondie, Pat Benatar, and the Donnas have announced their 2009 tour dates . This is going to be an amazing tour, not to be missed! Check the ladies out in NYC FOR FREE on August 13th 2009 at Asser Levy Park in Coney Island, Brooklyn! I'll be there! The John Lennon Exhibit by Yoko Ono titled "John Lennon: The New York Years" has officially opened at the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Annex in New York City. Yoko Ono has included some truly shocking pieces including the a paper bag containing the bloody clothes John Lennon wore on the tragic evening he was shot in 1980 by Mark David Chapman. Ono explains that these pieces were "hard to include" but she felt thatit was "important for people to see that, and for people to un...

Amanda Palmer of the Dresden Dolls graduated from Lexington High School in 1994. Since then she has became a known artist in the punk-cabaret scene with her band the Dresden Dolls.www.dresdendolls.com/ Under Palmer's direction, her old high school will be performing an original play based on an indie rock staple(and a favorite of mine), Neutral Milk Hotel's 1998 album " In the Aeroplane Over the Sea". "It's thrifty, profound, high-quality theater that happens to have been created by high school students," says Palmer. The play is called "With The Needle That Sings in Her Heart" featuring and inspired by indie rock band Neutral Milk Hotel's music. The play is about Anne Frank's reliance on her imagination to escape from the terrifying experiences in a concentration camp during World War II. According to Palmer, "The scenes underneath it are about creativity and how, as human beings, our creative impulse is one of the most subline ...