Review: Fat Heaven ‘Tough Luck’
This November hasn’t been the greatest, but that’s about to change. NYC/Brooklyn based punks Fat Heaven are releasing their first full length just in time to turn the month around. Tough Luck is...
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Brian’s List: Week of 11/20
BRIAN’S LIST: SHOWCASING THE BEST DEALS AND INTERESTING FINDS IN MUSICAL EQUIPMENT IN NEW YORK CITY. Brian’s List came into fruition after years of helping friends and fellow musicians find deals on...
View ArticleDec. 9: Plastic Pinks, Tall Juan, Pink Mexico, Monograms @ Shea Statdium, 8pm...
The west coast band Plastic Pinks is making their way to the east coast to melt some faces and wreck some souls! Their new EP ‘El Animal,’ released just this past fall, was producer by Gordon Raphael...
View ArticleDec. 14: Honduras, Stuyedeyed, Navy Gangs, Retail @ Baby’s All Right, 8pm ($10)
Take a break from your weird obsession with listening to holiday music during the month of December and come on down to Baby’s All Right to give your ears a treat. It’s going to be a night to define...
View ArticleInterview: Miniature Tigers
When I was in 11th grade a friend introduced me to Miniature Tigers. At the time they had just come out with their debut LP Tell It To The Volcano. It was funny, witty and the type of music that made...
View ArticleSong 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 cassette label, Time Castle, Duane is also the songwriter behind...
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Brian’s List: Wurlitzer Woes
BRIAN’S LIST: SHOWCASING THE BEST DEALS AND INTERESTING FINDS IN MUSICAL EQUIPMENT IN NEW YORK CITY. Deeply apologize folks for missing last weeks installment! I was knee deep in repairing my...
View ArticleKing Krule Raps A Children’s Story in “How To Escape From A Wasp”
An odd new children’s story-turned-video featuring narration from King Krule, words by Micachu, and illustrations by Kirsty Whiten has surfaced. “How to Escape from A Wasp” has the rhyme scheme and...
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Brian’s List: Week of 12/5
BRIAN’S LIST: SHOWCASING THE BEST DEALS AND INTERESTING FINDS IN MUSICAL EQUIPMENT IN NEW YORK CITY. BANJO BONANZA! In an apartment in Midtown there is a dude who loves banjo’s. He will sell you a...
View ArticleListen: 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 Clinton’s sex scandal was actually bad for public opinion. 18 years later...
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Brian’s List: Week of 12/12
BRIAN’S LIST: SHOWCASING THE BEST DEALS AND INTERESTING FINDS IN MUSICAL EQUIPMENT IN NEW YORK CITY. Hope everyone enjoyed last week’s installment! Brian’s List is back this week with more choice pics...
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Lost in 2016: NYC Music Venues
New York used to be the redeeming modicum of American culture but it has slowly turned into a haven for fratty Murray Hill stockbrokers and their female counterparts. Every year the city becomes...
View ArticleVideo Premiere: Jonny Couch “Really Wanna Touch”
Aaaaand here’s the latest from the Jonny Couch rock n roll show! An emotionally charged music video for “Really Wanna Touch.” The song bears one of the catchiest hooks on his recently released Animal...
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Staff Picks: Best Music Releases of 2016
Our favorite albums, EPs, singles and music releases of 2016! Porches – Pool This album was recorded in Aaron Maine’s apartment (a fact that has been repeated enough times to make you nauseous) and...
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BRIAN’S LIST: WEEK OF 12/26
BRIAN’S LIST: SHOWCASING THE BEST DEALS AND INTERESTING FINDS IN MUSICAL EQUIPMENT IN NEW YORK CITY. Holidays can be a wonderful time of the year or they can really be a major pain in the butt. Don’t...
View ArticleAlbum Review: Puzzle – Laying In The Sand
Puzzle, the solo project of Fletcher Shears (one half of post-everything Vada Vada group The Garden), has released a stellar new album titled Laying In The Sand. It’s a whirled mix of hippity-hoppity...
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BRIAN’S LIST: WEEK OF 1/2/17
BRIAN’S LIST: SHOWCASING THE BEST DEALS AND INTERESTING FINDS IN MUSICAL EQUIPMENT IN NEW YORK CITY. Here were are in a new year ready to really dig in and check out some old gear. Hope everyone keeps...
View ArticleListen: David Bowie — No Plan
Almost exactly a year ago we lost Starman, the gender defying, the effervescent and ethereal David Bowie. Blackstar, which was released a few days before his death, is his swan song. It’s a farewell...
View ArticleListen: Insecure Men – Karaoke For One
Karaoke For One sounds like the name of a subterranean Chinatown karaoke bar, always empty save for an omnipresent perpetually drunk regular, the bar a front for sinister criminal ongoings. Although...
View ArticleEP Review: Tropical Skin Byrds, “S/T”
“From the moment we met / I was destined to feel your pain.” The first words from Tropical Skin Byrds heavy new EP, S/T, drag us under the current of its reverbed, dark waves to fill us in on painful...
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