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 their energy only to be let down and underwhelmed by their studio...
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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 Quintet
View ArticleAlbum 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 a track entitled “C.N.T.” that shrieks, “I know you’re trying to...
View ArticleWatch: 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 Teenage Toy this week is a far cry from a dog’s breakfast. Director Jak Payne...
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Photo diary: Evil Jesus Band @ Mercury Lounge
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View ArticleVideo 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 top 40 hits. That is in essence the video we are premiering today for...
View ArticleWatch: 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 Brian Eno, producer Rodaidh McDonald and Oneohtrix Point Never, to...
View ArticleMixtape: 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, and how we dance to them all the same. Shake the January sky out! This...
View ArticleVideo 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) Sleep When I Die”. Parodying the tragedy of a young hunter transformed into a deer...
View ArticleEP 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 dance floor. This kind of snotty high-octane music is a tried and...
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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 sharing pints of cider that rattled on the dive bar tables as they...
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Photo diary: Drugdealer and Weyes Blood @ Baby’s All Right
Photos by Lauren Khalfayan. Find more of her work here.
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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 with Haley Dahl, the front woman, without blue paint and with clothes...
View ArticleWatch: 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 Tools-Parquet Courts sphere, often performing with his punk band B Boys....
View ArticleEP 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 en Place became one of my favorite releases of 2017. While their...
View ArticleListen: 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, “Chanel.” The whimsical R&B release seemed to fit the stillness of...
View ArticleListen: 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 Casablancas’ own label, Cult Records. Now operating under simply The Voidz, their...
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Live review: Sløtface @ Elsewhere
Review by Albert Testani. Photos by Lauren Khalfayan, find more of her work here. “Sløtface are solid.” Pretty much everyone in the venue murmured this at some point prior to them taking that stage....
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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 love, Lindsey Jordan professes she just couldn’t after two months of living here....
View ArticleListen: Palm “Composite”
Palm is one of those bands that defy categorization—they’ve been called experimental, art, math, post-post-post rock—but their latest track “Composite” kind of sounds like a backmasked Beach Boys song,...
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