'80s arena rock stalwarts Journey (now fronted by YouTube sensation Arnel Pineda), Pat Benatar and Loverboy are playing Jones Beach tonight. [via Time Out]Speaking of the '80s, Brooklyn's Bell House is throwing and '80s dance party featuring DJs, specialty cocktails and live music by premiere '80s-covering wedding band The Engagements. [via Brooklyn Based]
San Francisco's Believer magazine commissioned Calvin Johnson (K Records founder and musician in his own right) to create a cassette compilation of cassette-only releases, "Love Songs for Lamp Shades." This month they're taking it on the road, Johnson will be playing tunes off the cassette at Muchmore's tonight, alongside Katie and the Lichen, Laura Lief, Old Night, Priests. [via Believer]
East Village lounge Drom is hosting the second installment of Trap Rap Fridays, featuring "trap rap, country rap tunes, and shake junt anthems" spun by KDS, Farrington G, Meka, Mess-Kid, Low Key, and host. J. Ross. [via Purple Pedigree]
Los Angeles
Chicano Batman, L.A.'s much-beloved surf-rock/cumbia trio (who often play with an ironing board as a keyboard stand, and who raised $4,500 on Kickstarter to fund the vinyl pressing of their second album,) play a free gig this evening at Amoeba Music.The L.A. Food and Wine Festival, which kicked off yesterday, features a slew of chef-hosted dinners and events taking place throughout the city through Sunday. We're bummed that Wolfgang Puck (who started the festival)'s "Dinner Under the Stars" is sold out, but so it goes. [via LAFW]
Chicago
At tonight's installment of the genius-sounding "Shame That Tune," three well-known Chicagoans (comedians Cameron Esposito and Amy Sumpter and author Patrick Somerville) will regale the crowd with their most embarrassing stories, which hosts Brian Costello and former Baby Teeth front man Abraham Levitan will then turn into re-worked covers of popular songs. Sounds mortifying/amazing. [via Chicago Reader]Billy Boy Arnold, a harmonica player who worked with Sonny Boy Williamson and recorded with Bo Diddley, and one of the last member's of Chicago's original blues scene, plays tonight at SPACE. [via Time Out]
London
Get your rave on tonight at The Colony Summer Rave at Corsica Studios, featuring "gnarlier, more splattery music" like rave, electro, 2step and junglist techno from the likes of Equinox, Al Tourettes, Matt Whitehead, Outrage b2b and AGT Rave Cru. [via The Quietus]As part of the Antony Hegarty-curated Meltdown Festival, Velvet Underground lead singer/icon Lou Reed will play the hits as well as some non-hits tonight at Royal Festival Hall. [via Time Out]
