February 28, 2018 at 8:00 am
Mixtape: Pisces season
Mixtape by Julie-Anna George.
Pisces, I know you well, as my sister, brother and father, you are born between February 20th and ...
February 27, 2018 at 8:00 am
Listen: Bambara “José Tries to Leave”
Bambara have returned with the first track from their upcoming album Shadow on Everything and have found no reason to lighten ...
February 27, 2018 at 8:00 am
Listen: Bush Tetras “Red Heavy”
It’s always an exciting day in music when a 1970s NYC punk group graces the world with more music.
The pioneering band Bush ...
February 26, 2018 at 8:00 am
Revisiting Palma Violets ‘180’ five years later
One night in 2015 my roommate Courtney came home very drunk slurring about hanging out with a band in a bathroom and watching them ...
February 26, 2018 at 8:00 am
Watch: Promiseland “My Shadow”
Promiseland has taken New York City. The solo project of Australian artist Johann Rashid has cultivated a reputation for destroying ...
February 26, 2018 at 8:00 am
Listen: Surfbort “Les Be in Love”
World music is a strange name for a genre when you think about it. Lots of questions arise. Whose world is it? What music qualifies to ...
February 23, 2018 at 11:54 am
Listen: Cutouts new EP, “Loosies”
The boys are back in town: Cutouts have a freshly minted EP out, titled Loosies. It’s swirling with grey areas and soft-toned blacks ...
February 23, 2018 at 8:22 am
Album Review: Insecure Men Self-Titled
The black sheep of pop music; Insecure Men have created the most punk rock pop album you’ll ever hear. All the synth, oohs and ...
February 21, 2018 at 8:00 am
Listen: Why Bonnie “Practice”
Why Bonnie, an Austin-based quartet, popped up seemingly out of nowhere and immediately caught my attention with their take ...
February 20, 2018 at 8:00 am
Photo Diary: HOMESHAKE @ Market Hotel
Photos of HOMESHAKE by Lauren Khalfayan.
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February 19, 2018 at 8:00 am
Beyond Earshot: how Nipplegate exposed industry sexism
Beyond Earshot is a new series by Jacob Seferian examining the cultural impact of music, past and present. Follow him ...
February 17, 2018 at 8:00 am
Live Review: Tiny Moving Parts @ Music Hall of Williamsburg
A little over a year and a half ago, I was living in Bristol, England and I saw Tiny Moving Parts play a mid-week gig for a couple ...
February 16, 2018 at 8:00 am
Listen: Soccer Mommy “Still Clean”
There are few that can articulate the isolation of wallowing in your bedroom after a painful rejection like Soccer Mommy’s Sophie ...
February 16, 2018 at 8:00 am
Photo Diary: Weaves and Palehound @ Brooklyn Bazaar
Photos by Lauren Khalfayan, find more of her work here.
Weaves
Palehound
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February 15, 2018 at 12:25 pm
Listen: The Voidz “Pointlessness”
What a way to go. The Voidz have a new album on the way, Virtue, and it’s closing track, the newly released “Pointlessness,” is ...
February 15, 2018 at 8:00 am
EP Premiere: Brian Merrill ‘Bliss Bunnies’
It’s not with every music release that you truly get a peak inside the head of a musician.
Brian Merrill has fully exposed ...
February 14, 2018 at 8:00 am
Mixtape: Valentine’s day special
Illustration and playlist by Alberto Pazzi.
Nothing says ‘I love you’ better than a meticulously curated Valentine’s Day ...
February 14, 2018 at 8:00 am
Watch: La Luz “Cicada”
La Luz just revealed “Cicada,” the lead single from their upcoming album Floating Features coming out on May 11th. It’s the ...
February 12, 2018 at 8:00 am
Photo Diary: Post Animal @ Brooklyn Steel
Photos by Lauren Khalfayan, find more of her work here.
Post Animal
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February 9, 2018 at 8:00 am
Live Review: QWAM @ The Knitting Factory
photos by Connor McNamara.
When I premiered QWAM’s EP, I predicted that their show would be a heck of a good time. I’m ...
February 8, 2018 at 8:00 am
Photo diary: NYC’s Hardest Working Bands @ Baby’s All Right
Photos by Lauren Khalfayan, find more of her work here.
Thick
Grim Streaker
Sic Tic
Darkwing
Fruit & ...
February 8, 2018 at 8:00 am
Listen: Hop Along “How Simple”
Hop Along’s new single manages a lot in just under four minutes. When the song begins, Frances Quinlan seems to be coming from a ...
February 7, 2018 at 8:00 am
Mixtape: Aquarius season
February, the aquarius month—symbolized by the philanthropic and objective Water Bearer, Aquarius energy is innovative and ...
February 6, 2018 at 8:00 am
Live review: Hinds @ Elsewhere
Luis Nieto Dickens for Elsewhere.
It feels like a long time since I first came across Hinds in a lo-fi garage rock playlist. It was ...
February 6, 2018 at 8:00 am
Photo diary: Mourning A Blk Star @ DROM
Photos by Daggers For Eyes, find her on ...
February 5, 2018 at 8:00 am
Video Premiere: shy kids “i was in new york”
shy kids from Canada is swinging by our quaint little town of New York City on March 25th at Baby’s All Right. In the meantime, ...
February 1, 2018 at 8:00 am
Listen: Palm “Composite”
Palm is one of those bands that defy categorization—they’ve been called experimental, art, math, post-post-post rock—but ...
January 31, 2018 at 8:00 am
Live review: Snail Mail @ Brooklyn Bazaar
Nearly every band mentions how much they love the city they’re visiting. Returning to the city she wishes she could ...
January 29, 2018 at 8:00 am
Live review: Sløtface @ Elsewhere
Review by Albert Testani. Photos by Lauren Khalfayan, find more of her work here.
“Sløtface are solid.” Pretty much ...
January 24, 2018 at 12:37 pm
Listen: The Voidz “Leave It In My Dreams”
The Voidz share their new single “Leave It In My Dreams” in anticipation of their second album, released under RCA and ...
January 23, 2018 at 8:00 am
Listen: Belle Game “Only One”
Last January, I uploaded an Instagram video of the snow falling outside my Washington Heights window to Frank Ocean’s, new single, ...
January 23, 2018 at 8:00 am
EP review: Alex Napping ‘Dish Soap’
I fell in love with Austin-based Alex Napping when I saw them open for the Hotelier at Brooklyn Bazaar this fall, and their album Mise ...
January 22, 2018 at 8:00 am
Watch: Gift Wrap “Losing Count”
Brendan Avalos is an all-around great Brooklyn guy who can be found at any given showing of local talent, especially in the Dull ...
January 22, 2018 at 8:00 am
Interview: Haley Dahl of Sloppy Jane
Interview and photos by Julie-Anna George.
After the Sloppy Jane show at Elsewhere a couple of week ago, I had the desire to talk ...
January 19, 2018 at 8:00 am
Photo diary: Drugdealer and Weyes Blood @ Baby’s All Right
Photos by Lauren Khalfayan. Find more of her work here.
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January 19, 2018 at 8:00 am
Interview: Dream Wife dreams of New York City
Photos by Sonya Mezhericher.
The three members of Dream Wife, Rakel, Alice, and Bella sat huddled around a table in Williamsburg ...
January 18, 2018 at 9:18 am
EP Premiere: QWAM ‘Feed Me’
QWAM make straightforward pop-punk of the non-emo variety, the kind that reminds me of the rush you feel when you do poppers on the ...
January 17, 2018 at 11:23 am
Video Premiere: Twisty Cats “(You’ll) Sleep When I Die”
The Twisty Cats bring a new age twist to the Ancient Greek myth of Diana and Actaeon in their new video for “(You’ll) ...
January 16, 2018 at 8:00 am
Mixtape: It’s death that has assassinated me
Illustration by Alberto Pazzi.
From 80’s French new wave to disco vibes, these songs speak about love, missing, joy, death, ...
January 15, 2018 at 8:00 am
Watch: David Byrne “Everybody’s Coming to my House”
David Byrne has announced his first solo album since 2004’s Grown Backwards. The former Talking Heads front man has teamed up with ...
January 12, 2018 at 8:00 am
Video premiere: Lola Pistola “I’m Stupid”
Somewhere in the back of an arcade of a mall in suburbia is a girl in a photo booth and low rise jeans lip syncing her way through ...
January 11, 2018 at 8:00 am
Photo diary: Evil Jesus Band @ Mercury Lounge
Photos by Daggers For Eyes, find her on ...
January 10, 2018 at 8:00 am
Watch: Insecure Men “Teenage Toy”
By Kirsten Kay Thoen aka Daggers For Eyes, find her on Instagram here.
Insecure Men’s release of its first music video for ...
January 8, 2018 at 8:00 am
Album premiere: The Royal They ‘Foreign Being’
Close enough to hardcore to cause a riot, but far enough away for everyone to enjoy.
The bold new album Foreign Being, beginning with ...
January 5, 2018 at 8:00 am
Photo diary: Lydia Lunch and Art Gray Noizz Quintet @ Rough Trade
Photos by Daggers For Eyes, find her on Instagram here.
Lydia Lunch
Art Gray Noizz ...
January 4, 2018 at 10:22 am
Premiere: The Muckers “Suspended For A Long Time”
Photo by Michael Younker. Text by Tamim Alnuweiri.
Have you ever seen a band live, spoken to them and just been so enthralled by ...
January 4, 2018 at 8:00 am
Watch: Dois “Stromboli”
Text by Cynthia Alfonso who you may recognize as the illustrator behind our brilliant end of year posters. Below is a video that she ...
January 3, 2018 at 8:00 am
Watch: Mo Troper “Tow Truck”
Photo by Samantha Sutcliffe.
A la boy bands of the 60s, namely The Monkees, Portland based Mo Troper takes to an older style of ...
December 30, 2017 at 11:00 am
Editors’ Picks: Best new bands of 2017
2017 is over! We’ve spent the last few weeks revisiting our favorite music videos, albums, and live acts. In this last ...
December 29, 2017 at 8:00 am
Mixtape: City kids
Mixtape and artwork by Daniel Shepard.
These are some songs that I would recommend to anyone but there are people that think punk ...