The annual 4Knots Festival is taking place this Saturday, June 29, at the gorgeous South Street Seaport, Pier 17 in lower Manhattan. This year is another great lineup, chock full of some of the most promising emerging acts in NYC, and a couple out of towners. Predominately indie rock and post punk, there’s also a touch
Neon colors, LED light accessories, giant dancing robots, sing-a-longs, and crowd-surfing second line parades are some of the things you can expect at a Rubblebucket show. You can expect your face to start hurting from smiling so much, but to not care because you’re at a super fun party where you could get blasted in
Thursday night was a trip of the musically-induced variety, when The Fresh & Onlys and Quilt played Music Hall of Williamsburg. The Fresh & Onlys are one of those bands where it’s easy not to realize exactly how good they are until experienced live. With introspective lyrics set to heavily hazy psych pop jams, they
Fall is here, and pumpkins are $0.49 per pound at Foodtown in Brooklyn. The weather is splendid, and there’s adrenaline in the air. Oh, oh, and CMJ – College Music Journal – festival is upon NYC. Wee! This is one of the biggest, most widespread, most happening, and most fun music festivals in the city,
I’m not even going to bother going into the “supergroup” thing (oops) and instead recognize that Divine Fits is a well-balanced band comprised of dudes that have their own successful projects, and who combined the best aspects into something of its very own entity. Comprised of Britt Daniel from Spoon, Dan Boeckner of Wolf Parade
Night Beats I walked into Music Hall of Williamsburg to music already playing, and I knew from the heavy-reverbed note bending that sounded like a portal straight back to Texas psych rock from the ’60s, that Night Beats was on stage. Singer D. Lee Blackwell split his time between growling and yelping into the mic
Picked By: Laurel Kathleen Who: Langhorne Slim Where: The Echoplex, Los Angeles, CA When: Tuesday, July 26th Doors open at 8:30pm Cost: $13 adv/$15 day of show Age Restrictions: 18+ *** Picked By: Kelly Knapp Who: Eels Where: Music Hall of Williamsburg, Brooklyn, NY When: Friday, July 29th & Saturday, July 30th @ 8pm Cost: $30 Age Restriction:
I don’t mean to sound like a broken record, but Shilpa Ray and Her Happy Hookers is playing this Tuesday at The Music Hall of Williamsburg AND YOU HAVE TO SEE THEM PLAY. I’ve already previewed one of Ray’s concerts, but for those of you who didn’t take my advice the first time around, here’s
Picked By: Kelly Knapp Who: CocoRosie Where: Glasslands, Brooklyn, NY When: Monday, May 23rd at 8pm Cost: Sold Out Age Restrictions: 21+
Last night was the first of two sold out shows for Little Scream and The Antlers in New York; this one at Music Hall of Williamsburg in Brooklyn. I had caught the very end of Little Scream, aka Laurel Sprengelmeyer’s set when she opened for Land of Talk at Bowery Ballroom last fall, giving me