Friday, October 22, NYU Skirball Center, 566 La Guardia Pl., $20-$30, 8:00
Friday, October 22, Bowery Ballroom, 6 Delancey St., $15, 11:30
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Dean Wareham and Britta Phillips will be doing double duty on Friday night at CMJ, first holding the final New York City performance ever of “13 Most Beautiful: Songs for Andy Warhol’s Screen Tests” at 8:00 at NYU’s Skirball Center before heading over to the Bowery Ballroom for “Dean Wareham Plays Galaxie 500.” Two years ago, the Andy Warhol Museum in Pittsburgh commissioned Dean & Britta to compose scores for screen tests that the silver-haired artist shot at the Factory from 1964 to 1966; they searched through hundreds of the black-and-white films (each four minutes and sixteen seconds in length) until they decided on Lou Reed, Nico, Edie Sedgwick, Dennis Hopper, Paul America, Susan Bottomly, Ann Buchanan, Freddy Herko, Jane Holzer, Billy Name, Richard Rheem, Ingrid Superstar, and Mary Woronov. The result is a stunning collection of gorgeous instrumentals (“Silver Factory Theme,” “Incandescent Innocence”), covers (Bob Dylan’s “I’ll Keep It with Mine” and the Velvet Underground’s “I’m Not a Young Man Anymore”), “Knives from Bavaria” from the Dean & Britta record L’AVVENTURA, and other trippy tracks, including the phenomenal “Teenage Lightning (and Lonely Highways),” that the duo, accompanied by Anthony Lamarca and Matt Sumrow, will perform live at the Skirball while the screen tests are projected behind them. Then it’s off to the Bowery Ballroom, where Dean and Britta, who have been partners on- and offstage ever since Phillips joined Luna in 2005, will play songs from the brief tenure of the much-missed Galaxie 500, which released the Rough Trade albums TODAY (1988), ON FIRE (1989), and THIS IS OUR MUSIC (1990) once upon a time. Also on the bill are Crocodiles, Wakey! Wakey!, Brian Bonz & the Major Crimes, James Vincent McMorrow, and Young Buffalo.
Also
UME, Mercury Lounge, 7:00
Bad Rabbits, Pure Volume House, 8:00
Four Tet, Webster Hall, 8:30
Fishbone, (le) poisson rouge, 9:00
MiniBoone, Crash Mansion, 9:30
La Strada, Bruar Falls, 10:00
Shinobi Ninja, Sullivan Hall, 10:30
Takka Takka, Bruar Falls, 11:00
Hypernova, Cameo Gallery, 11:30
We Are Country Mice, Cake Shop, 11:50
Lower Dens, Rockwood Music Hall, 12 midnight
Nada Surf, Mercury Lounge, 1:00 am