the Strokes — set to release their hotly anticipated debut album, “Is This It,” at the end of the month — were billed to play a low-key midnight show at Irving Plaza on Saturday; a new British band called Coldplay was scheduled to be at the Gramercy-area venue two nights later.
Masked rapper MF Doom was slated to perform at NYU; there was an underground hip-hop extravaganza scheduled at B.B. King’s in Times Square with Mixmaster Mike and human beatbox Rahzel; and the Tribeca jam-band mecca Wetlands was closing its doors for good that weekend and planned a big finale: three nights with the Grateful Dead co-founder Bob Weir’s band Ratdog.
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