MONDAY 11

Brooklyn trio Vivian Girls play lo-fi garage rock with a kick-ass punk mentality. They’ve become the favs of fans and critics. Tonight, hear tracks from their debut self-titled album, and sets from friends Times New Viking and Stupid Party.
Bowery Ballroom, 6 Delancey St bet Bowery and Chrystie St, NYC, 212-533-2111, 8pm, $15, www.myspace.com/viviangirlsnyc

For those of you who are too young to remember or too naff to figure out how music was played on a boombox back in the 80s, there was a little plastic thing called the cassette. Now you can keep your coins in them! Very eco-chic!
www.designboom.com

SATURDAY 9

Electro duo The Crystal Method provided the dance soundtrack to the electronica 90s, as well as being featured in video games, movies and TV shows including The Fast and The Furious, Blade: Trinity, London, Bones,and CSI. Tonight they’re tweeking all over again with new album Divided By Night.
Webster Hall, 125 E 11th St bet […]

FRIDAY 8
Patrick McMullan Photographers Exhibition

Celebrity photog, columnist, and socialite Patrick McMullan has been documenting the New York scene for over 20 years. Now he’s giving all his collabs and worker bees a chance to exhibit their own work in a group show. “Everyone that works with me is a photographer, including the people that work […]

Portuguese Designer João Sabino has come up with a pretty cool, geek chic purse…although Sabino calls it a “container…the lack of order allows the singularity of each object, which becomes itself, a communication vehicle that can be configured to act as a message, encoded or not”. WTF GEEK!!!
www.joaosabino.pt

WEDNESDAY 6

Patrick Wolf – Vulture

Red heads do it betta!…and Patrick Wolf not only looks the fiery part (actually, think he’s blonde now), but also turns out a few hot tunes of the fantastical sort. Tonight he’s in NYC, doing an acoustic set comprised of tracks from new ‘nihilistic battle’ album Bachelor out June 2. See […]