Yesterday CMJ began to take over the city. Reports of long lines at the badge pickup station came in quickly, but if this week is about anything it's about long lines. Oh, and music. If you're off for the day, come and knock on our door at Gothamist House. It's free, and here's a preview of what you'll hear: • Cut Off Your Hands: You and I.mp3 • Peasant: Those Days.mp3 • Sparrow House: You......

TIP: According to Paper's Mr. Mickey, Chloë Sevigny is having a tag sale on her block this Saturday. We're guessing there will be lots of vintage Balenciaga. Check out her apartment in House & Garden...pretty nice! EVENT: The Howl Festival (which took last year off) continues on throughout the weekend. Tomorrow around 2pm you can catch Moby with his band The Little Death in Tompkins Square Park. Check out the full schedule here. All Weekend......

Gardeners who tend to an East 79th Street sidewalk gardens have been waging a war against a woman who tears off climbing hydrangea vines off trees. Gardeners Charles Dean and Skip Wachsberger have posted signs saying ,"MADAME, your attacks on our climbing hydrangeas are VANDALISM. Please stop it! The gardener." That might be the the most polite "MInd your f***ing business" sign ever! The woman apparently think that the vines, which flower in the summer,......

2007 is just around the corner, and we've got a little tip sheet on where to be when the clock strikes midnight. MUSIC + PARTY • Clap Your Hands Say Yeah will help ring in the new year with their guests the Bob Mould Band and Final Fantasy at Hammerstein Ballroom. Our friends at Stereogum are sponsoring the show, and tickets are still available here. Clap's second album, Some Loud Thunder, comes out in January,......

Professor Murder is: MIKE, TONY, JESSE and ANDY We've had several people recommend Professor Murder for consideration for a BOTW recently and are really glad we took the advice and had a listen. These guys sound pretty sweet. It's slightly dark and dancey electropop in the vain of someone like The Rapture, but with a optimistic sheen covering it. We like that. Makes for good listening during the pretty summer months. They have a......

Apes and Androids are a new band. In fact, they only have a few shows under their belts so far as we can tell. However, we have rarely seen someone come out of nowhere and gather so much attention in such a quick time. They've already earned a coveted Oh My Rockness recommendation star for both of their upcoming shows. As the name suggests, they blend a precise electronic sound with pure animal emotion.......

Two days ago, EvanWasHere posted a story in the Gothamist Forums about his friend's stolen Sidekick. His friend left the Sidekick in a cab, and somehow, it ended up in the hands of some other people who decided to enjoy it. Little did the, er, "new owners" of the Sidekick realize that any information they sent would still be recorded and captured by the T-Mobile servers So Evan posted the photographs, AOL name and some......

- High school students slash each other on the Upper West Side, and local residents and business owners confirm that the kids are scary - The Brian Lehrer Show on the need for more public accountability from city agencies like the MTA - The tourist kids who threw paint cans at the police in Midtown were reprimanded by Virginia high school (one was expelled)... - ...and the Bronx high school kids finally got to......

Photo by Melissa Canella Goes Cube is: Kenny Appell - Drums Matthew Frey - Bass David Obuchowski - Guitar, Vocals We first heard of Goes Cube while reading about the upcoming Oh My Rockness showcase this Friday at the Brooklyn Lyceum. Upon noticing two of the four bands were previous Gothamist Band of the Weekers and already being familiar with the awesomeness that is the Detachment Kit, we needed to see what the deal......

Last year Gothamist headed down to Austin for SXSW to help launch Austinist amongst other things. This year we're headed back down to throw our own Austinist + Gothamist day party. We'll have a pretty flyer and more details to post on that soon, but for now we're going to tell you about the afterparty... Austinist and Gothamist have helped put together a big big afterparty, called Absolute Debauchery. The full roster of who we......

Here are our initial ideas on a Project Runway Season 2 drinking game... if you have suggestions, put them below and we'll have a revised game for next week's second part of the finale! Drink when: - Santino does some outrageous (just a teeny sip - we want you to be able to go to work tomorrow) - Chloe says how her line will look expensive - Daniel tosses his hair or tries to be......

We were really knocked out by Mazarin at Pianos last week. Very fun band. One can only hope that this week holds such surprise awesomeness. Some potential candidates: Party-pop masters Ok Go (at left) made a hilarious choreographed dance video in their backyard that captures the energy and fun of their live show. Plus, ladies may just fall in love with frontman Damian Kulash's gigantic Mick Jagger lips. With dance punks Controller.Controller and spirited psychedelic......

For some of you this weekend marks the launch of fashion week, for others there's a big game on Sunday. Whether you're in couture or sweatpants we have some suggestions on what you can do over the next few days: MOVIE: Hirokazu Kore-eda's "Nobody Knows" opens today in Manhattan. Based on the true story of four abandoned children in Japan who lived alone for six months without anyone noticing. You can read more about this......

Coachella confirmations are starting to appear, after many many rumors. This year, the 6th, will be held April 30th to May 1st at Empire Polo Field in Indio, CA (same venue as last year). The lineup is still unconfirmed but you can probably expect Coldplay, Franz Ferdinand and the Killers. Others asked to perform this year are the Futureheads, Snow Patrol, Keane, Bloc Party, Secret Machines, Hot Hot Heat, Phoenix, The Bravery and Radio 4.......

Gothamist doesn't really like New Years Eve, it's overhyped and too expensive. So short of suggesting you just stay at home here's a little list of things you could do to ring in '05. We love Marc Ribot and he'll be playing at Tonic as the ball drops. There are still tickets left for Wilco, Flaming Lips and Sleater-Kinney at MSG [we know, not below 14th]. As well as for Patti Smith at Bowery. Gothamist's......

'Tis the season for corporate holiday parties, which could really get in the way of the great music we have in the coming week. Not that there are any tickets available, and not that most people want to pay the black market price, but the Pixies are opening their 2004 Hammerstein eight-show stand on Saturday. Check out all the dates and openers at Oh My Rockness and read the review of last night's DC......