A LEE AND STEVE AT DYLAN TRIBUTE

Lee, along with Steve, Tim Luntzel, John Medeski, and Smokey Hormel will perform along with Patti Smith, Phil Lesh, Roseanne Cash, Alan Toussaint and more at a Bob Dylan tribute at Avery Fisher Hall, Lincoln Center. The performance is November 9 at 8pm. More info and tickets here.

A CELEBRATION OF ALLEN GINSBERG

Wednesday November 1 at 8:00pm at the St. Marks Poetry Project, Lee will read at a celebration of Allen Ginsberg. The event is 'A reading of Allen Ginsberg’s work across his life, in part to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the publication of Howl, in part to celebrate the publication of Bill Morgan’s new biography I Celebrate Myself: The Somewhat Private Life of Allen Ginsberg, and, largely, to hear the work.' Other readers include Ed Sanders and Eileen Myles among many others. More info.

PERFECT PARTNER IN THE USA

Perfect Partner is a first time collaboration between Sonic Youth guitarist Kim Gordon, renowned video artist Tony Oursler and filmmaker Phil Morrison. Somewhere between Godard's Pierrot Le Fou and a thundering free rock freak-out, Perfect Partner is a surreal psychodrama-cum-road movie celebrating our society's enchantment with automobile culture. Joining Kim Gordon on stage is fellow Sonic Youth member Thurston Moore, musician, filmmaker and producer Jim O'Rourke, percussionist Tim Barnes, laptop virtuoso Ikue Mori and turntable whiz DJ Olive. Alexander Kasser Theatre, Montclair, New Jersey 27th and 28th October 2006, 7.30pm.

MAKE YOUR OWN LIFE: ARTISTS IN AND OUT OF COLOGNE

Kim has artwork in the exhibition 'Make Your Own Life: Artists in and out of Cologne' which opened September 21 at the Power Plant in Toronto Other artists include Mike Kelley, Jutta Koether, and Christopher Wool, among others. More information.

UP IS UP, BUT SO IS DOWN
Thurston will be reading alongside others including Eileen Myles and Nick Zedd to celebrate the release of 'Up is Up, But So is Down' New York's Downtown Literary Scene, 1974-1992. The event is Thursday, October 26 at 6:30pm at NYU's Fales Library, 70 Washington Square South.