May 29, 2025 at 10:00 am
Downtown Dispatch: Interpreting the Oracle Sisters’ Tea Leaves
Every so often, something entirely new can stir a faint and familiar feeling. I ‘get it’ tout de suite. Listening to the rococo ...
April 2, 2025 at 1:30 pm
Downtown Dispatch: Charlotte Rose Benjamin’s Showgirlhood
Charlotte Rose Benjamin, photographed by Charlotte Dulany.
In girl world… There’s sentimentality, friendship, infatuation, and ...
March 28, 2025 at 11:30 am
SHAGGO’s Breakout Year: From Debut Single to SXSW Stage
I first saw SHAGGO almost a year ago at The Sultan Room, and while the band’s irreverent, punkish, feminist-centric ethos has been ...
March 17, 2025 at 2:01 pm
Test Subjects Experiment With Bigger Sound
Photos by Charlie Baker.
“Hey,” I said, turning to my neighbor at a concert on Wednesday night, “doesn’t he ...
February 19, 2025 at 2:57 pm
Downtown Dispatch: Ray Bull Unleashed
With just one listen, Ray Bull’s music sparks an immediate conversation of movement — foot tapping, finger snapping, head bobbing, ...
February 14, 2025 at 9:57 am
Premiere: Cindy Cane’s Heart Is on Fire
Faster, hotter, stronger.
Cindy Cane’s latest single, “Hearts on Fire,” is an endless dance between the peculiar and the ...
February 12, 2025 at 8:00 am
No Holds Barred: Meet the New Kid, Komodos
Story by Sophie Abeles. Photos by Matt Weinberger.
Named for the word’s mouthfeel rather than the world’s largest lizard, ...
February 7, 2025 at 2:45 pm
Listen: Alex Orange Drink “Queen Victoria” featuring Conor Oberst
We have something to satisfy your sonic thirst: Alex Orange Drink’s latest single, “Queen Victoria,” featuring Conor Oberst.
The ...
January 23, 2025 at 12:03 pm
No Holds Barred: On the Road with The Thing
Story and photos by Sophie Abeles.
Two years ago, The Thing, a four-piece indie rock band from Brooklyn, New York, abandoned their ...
January 18, 2025 at 1:52 pm
Jan 19: Party Girls Never Die “Special Guests” Residency @ Jean’s Night 1
A new nightlife experience has arrived at Jean’s – Party Girls Never Die “Special Guests.”
Party Girls Never Die is a ...
December 31, 2024 at 12:30 pm
Interview with Veronica’s Sofia Zarzuela
photo by Aria Cabello
Sofia Zarzuela, the lead singer of NYC-based band, Veronica, jumps up and down in a Brooklyn park to stay warm ...
December 6, 2019 at 12:00 pm
Of Poets + Punks, III: Chromesthesia
Photos and feature by E.R. Pulgar
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“I see music in colours. I love music that’s black, pink, purple or ...
October 16, 2019 at 12:00 pm
Of Poets + Punks, II: Tango Del Pecado
Photos and feature by E.R. Pulgar
For someone who has two left feet compared to every Venezuelan I’ve ever met, most of my ...
October 22, 2018 at 9:00 am
Death Trax: Den-Mate
Death Trax is a mixtape series where people (somewhat obviously) curate music for their own funerals. This week Den-Mate shares their ...
August 7, 2018 at 12:39 pm
Album Premiere: SIGNAL Self-Titled
Photo by Leia Jospe.
This band needs to be ticketed for disturbing the peace. SIGNAL is a NYC-based group that’s going back to ...
July 31, 2018 at 2:55 pm
Aug 2: Animal Show, Max Pain & The Groovies, Menjuje, Julep @ Secret Project Robot ($10)
Poster by Nazar Khamis
If you wanna see a killer line up of NYC bands (& one band from Boston: Julep) that play from the heart and ...
May 22, 2018 at 10:00 am
Watch: Champagne Superchillin’ “Amor Fati”
Photo by William Aubrey Reynolds.
Nietzsche and David Lynch ain’t got nothing on Champagne Superchillin’. The wonderfully ...
May 2, 2018 at 8:00 am
Photo Diary: Sunflower Bean @ Bowery Ballroom
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May 1, 2018 at 8:00 am
Watch: Phil and The Osophers “Third World American”
It’s nothing new, but the United States kinda suck. And I don’t mean that in a racist, “Make America Great ...
April 25, 2018 at 8:00 am
Premiere: Atlas Wynd “Helpless”
Rock music doesn’t need to be reinvented to be worthy. Some bands rely on nostalgia, some bands rely on experimentation, and ...
April 16, 2018 at 8:00 am
Album Review: Many Rooms “There Is A Presence Here”
Somber and neither here nor there, Many Rooms, the moniker of Houston-based singer/songwriter Briana Hunt, conceived a debut album ...
April 9, 2018 at 8:00 am
Live Review: Nobunny @ Diviera Drive
I don’t know what happened to me as a kid but I’m only satisfied at shows if I’m deaf and sweaty by the end of it—and if the ...
March 30, 2018 at 8:00 am
Live Review: Son Lux @ Brooklyn Steel
Photos and review by Brett Myers.
Halfway through Son Lux’s set at Brooklyn Steel last week, one song, “You Don’t Know Me,” ...
March 28, 2018 at 8:00 am
Photo Diary: MGMT @ Brooklyn Steel
Photos by Brett Myers.
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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 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 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 ...
December 21, 2017 at 8:00 am
Listen: Sobs “Catflap”
Celine Autumn, Jared Lim, and Raphael Ong make up the Singapore-based project Sobs. In June of 2017 these self-proclaimed purveyors of ...
August 31, 2017 at 8:00 am
Mixtape: end of summer daze
Grab your buds, a beer, and grill some burgers. Savor the summer while it lasts—we’ll be hit with full on foliage before we ...
May 25, 2017 at 9:00 am
Song Premiere: RFA “Suzie Lee”
Everyone should be jealous of whoever Suzie Lee is. The brand new track by RFA, the strapping young Philadelphian rock ‘n’ ...
February 4, 2017 at 10:00 am
Feb 9: Public Access T.V., The Britanys, Splashh @ The Bowery Ballroom, 8:30 pm ($13)
Garage rock will be resurrected this week when Public Access T.V., The Britanys and Splashh play the final (and homecoming) show of ...
January 6, 2017 at 11:05 am
Interview: BOYTOY
Cover image by Zooey Jolivet, all other images by Tamim Alnuweiri.
In 2015 BOYTOY released their first full length LP, Grackle. The ...
December 21, 2016 at 2:00 pm
Dec 29: H.R. of Bad Brains, Dubb Agents, Skarroñeros, Kingsound @ the Bowery Electric, 8PM ($12)
It’s hard to overstate how important H.R. is to contemporary punk and reggae — two genres seemingly at odds with each other. ...
December 16, 2016 at 6:49 pm
Dec 16: Breanna Barbara, Old Lady, Dances, Junk Boys @ Union Pool, 8pm ($10)
Last chance to buckle down and have your brain rewired before the impending apocalypse (polar vortex) hits New York City. Brooklyn ...
December 9, 2016 at 5:24 pm
Listen: The Jesus and Mary Chain “Amputation”
The last time the Jesus and Mary Chain released a new album Seinfeld was on it’s last season, Google had just launched and Bill ...
December 1, 2016 at 6:01 pm
Song Premiere: BIRDS “See It All”
There are people who support music and there are people who make music. Duane Lauginiger does both. Aside from running studio and ...
August 19, 2016 at 5:30 pm
Ladies Behind Lenses: Susan Seidelman – Smithereens
Ladies Behind Lenses is a column that explores films directed, produced, and written by women who are kicking ass within the ...
August 5, 2015 at 3:08 am
Aug 6: MoMA Nights Presents: PopRally @ MoMA, 5:30pm ($25)
MoMA Nights presents the first night of PopRally, a weekly program of artist collaborations, performances, film screenings, and ...
July 15, 2015 at 6:06 pm
Photo Diary: Getting Lost at Electric Forest
This is my second year attending Electric Forest. This festival is so much more than just music — in fact, I only caught a few ...
July 2, 2015 at 4:41 pm
Horoscopes 7/1-7/9
Aries
Airy aries — some things are actually materializing for you this week in a way that not only you can see, but others can ...
June 25, 2015 at 10:46 pm
Band Crush: Night Soil feat Bunny Michael, Eartheater, and more @ Baby’s All Right (5/24)
In anticipation of Alt Space‘s opening reception for Bunny Michael’s Etheric Double, her first solo ...
June 24, 2015 at 9:32 pm
Mixtape: Favorite Songs of 2015
As I get older, it feels harder and harder to stay in the loop when it comes to keeping up with new music — and that’s coming ...
June 24, 2015 at 9:24 pm
Bunny Michael ‘Etheric Double’ on view @ Alt Space, June 26 – July 12
Bunny Michael, In the Pursuit of it All, We Discovered We Had Everything We Needed Within Ourselves, 2015,
C Print, 24” x 24”
A ...
June 11, 2015 at 12:20 pm
Navigating Northside (6/11-6/14)
Northside, one of Brooklyn’s premiere arts festivals, is kicking off its incredible musical escapades today, and with days and ...
June 10, 2015 at 10:09 pm
Watch: Björk “Black Lake”
If you didn’t make it out to Björk’s career-spanning exhibition at the MoMa, we’ve got the next best thing. Your ...
May 13, 2015 at 5:35 pm
Listen: Metoux “Neighbor”
French music and fashion label Kitsuné is set to release their fourth “America Compilation” later this month, and in ...
April 16, 2015 at 7:43 pm
Watch: the Growlers “Not The Man”
They may be seasoned road dogs with a seemingly shallow bag of tricks and nugs, but Cali psych-rockers the Growlers still manage to ...
March 17, 2015 at 5:49 pm
Watch: Death Grips “On GP”
Ceasing their guerilla attack of an existence with a string of cancelled tour dates and a cryptic open letter dubbing the band ...
March 11, 2015 at 9:21 pm
Desert-Town Arts Festival ‘Marfa Myths’ Kicks Off Sophomore Festival
Music, art, and culture collide in the second installment of the collaborative, desert-town festival Marfa Myths. This unique cultural ...
March 10, 2015 at 5:02 pm
Indie-Lit Pop Quiz: Beach Sloth
Indie-Lit Pop Quiz, our new weekly interview series, gets the skinny on independent writers, from their creative process and views on ...