News and notes from around town: Franz Nicolay leaves The Hold Steady, Maura Kennedy will be returning with a band to The Living Room in February, and the latest from The Rockwood Music Hall and The Lakeside Lounge.

Tonight at St. Anne’s Warehouse: a benefit concert for Tuli Kupferberg, a member of The Fugs, a seminal mid-60s Lower East Side group.  The Fugs were there before The Velvet Underground and The Mothers of Invention.

All this over at Now I’ve Heard Everything.

–Eliot Wagner