photos by Jonathan Bernstein; words by Bill Pearis

The Babies / Waxahatchee at Glasslands - 4/27/13

After Waxahatchee played the WBAR-B-Q at Barnard College on Saturday (4/27), Katie Crutchfield and crew made their way over to Brooklyn for a sold out show at Glasslands with the Woods/Vivian Girls-related The Babies and the Harlem-related Las Rosas. Unfortunately, we missed Las Rosas, but pictures of the other two bands are in this post.

Though Waxahatchee's getting more ink at the moment, the room was packed, dancing and singing along (including Katie Crutchfield doing the latter) for The Babies headlining set. As much as I like Woods and Vivian Girls, I love The Babies and if you haven't gotten with 2012's Our House on the Hill, you should rectify that immediately.

The other star of the night was Glasslands' new lighting installation that made its debut last weekend, which involves clusters of white tubes that span the entire ceiling of the club and can be lit in a variety of colors. While the clouds that hung over the stage for years were iconic, these tubes are dazzling in their own way.

More pics from Saturday night are below.

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White Lung @ Bowery Ballroom last weekend (more by Fred Pessaro // BBG)

As mentioned a few times, the Village Voice's 4Knots Music Festival goes down on June 29 at Pier 17 at South Street Seaport with headliner Kurt Vile & the Violators, plus The Men, Parquet Courts and Marnie Stern. The fest just announced five more acts: Reigning Sound, White Lung (who just played with Parquet Courts at Bowery), The Babies, Fat Tony and Heliotropes. With two stages to fill, there's still more acts to be announced.

Reigning Sound's Greg Cartwright will get to know the Pier 17 stage pretty well by summer's end, as his other band, Oblivians, will play there for the Seaport Music Festival on June 7, which is also free. As mentioned, Reigning Sound recently signed to Merge Records who will release that band's new album at some point this year.

Continue reading "4Knots Music Fest adds Reigning Sound, White Lung, The Babies, Fat Tony and Heliotropes to 2013 line-up"

by Bill Pearis

Onetime Pink Floyd frontman Roger Waters offered The Pros & Cons of Hitchhiking in 1984 and now, 29 years later, Brooklyn's The Babies have their own advice on the subject via the new video to their song "Mess Me Around." That track is one of the standouts from last year's terrific, Our House on the Hill. You can watch how their experience bumming rides below.

The band will be piling in their own van soon, as their North American tour kicks off this weekend. That tour will swing through their hometown next weekend for a show at Glasslands on April 27 with Waxahatchee and Harlem spinnoff Las Rosas. That is a rock-solid triple bill and tickets are still available.

After their North American jaunt wraps up, The Babies head to Europe to play Barcelona's Primavera Sound Festival and a bunch of other dates, all of which are listed below.

Continue reading "The Babies hitchhike in "Mess Me Around" video; their tour starts this weekend (updated dates)"

Waxahatchee at 285 Kent earlier this month (more by Amanda Hatfield)

Waxahatchee, who just headlined a sold out show at 285 Kent, has been added as an opener to the previously discussed Babies show happening at the smaller Glasslands on April 27. Las Rosas are on that bill too. Tickets for the show are still available, but perhaps with Waxahatchee being added that won't be true for long.

The Glasslands show is the same day Waxahatchee plays the free, all ages WBAR-B-Q at Barnard College with Twin Sister, Roomrunner, Swearin', Speedy Ortiz and others. Waxahatchee is also touring Europe with Tegan & Sara, and playing Pitchfork Festival in Chicago.

All dates are listed, along with a recent video of Waxahatchee (Katie solo) playing "Swan Dive" for WNYC Soundcheck in Austin during SXSW, below...

Continue reading "Waxahatchee added to The Babies' Glasslands show"

by Bill Pearis

The Babies at Cake Shop, Feb. 2012 (more by Jessica Amaya)

The Babies, whose 2012 album Our House on the Hill was one of my favorites of last year, have announced a spring tour before heading to Europe. This includes a hometown Brooklyn stop at Glasslands on April 27. No openers have been announced yet, but tickets are on sale now.

All tour dates, and the video for "Baby," are below.

Continue reading "The Babies announce 2013 spring tour"

Primavera Sound have announced their 2013 lineup, set to go down on May 22-26 in Barcelona, Spain. The announcement came via an animated video and artists performing include Phoenix, The Postal Service, Blur, Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds, My Bloody Valentine, Tame Impala, Wu-Tang Clan, Dead Can Dance, Grizzly Bear, The Knife, and loads more. Current lineup is below along with the flyer and video...

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photos by Jessica Amaya

Marcus Foster at Webster Hall (more)

BV contributors Dominick Mastrangelo, Dana (distortion) Yavin, Amanda Hatfield, David Andrako and Fred Pessaro // BBG have all gone to their share of shows in 2012, and each has weighed in on their favorite photos that they took in 2012. Next on the list is a set from Jessica Amaya, who has chronicled her 2012 favorites below in no particular order.

More below, along with Jessica's favorite tracks of 2012.

Continue reading "Jessica Amaya's favorite Live Photos of 2012 (that she took) (her favorite songs too)"

Title Fight @ Europa, January 2012 (more by Rebecca Reed)

Mount Eerie @ LPR, 9/16/12 (more by Amanda Hatfield)

today in NYC
* The Quavers @ Barbes
* Questlove @ Brooklyn Bowl
* Max Johnson Quartet @ The Stone
* Nick Kroll @ Gramercy Theatre
* No Small Money Brass Band @ Zebulon
* A-Trak, ASAP Mob @ Best Buy Theatre
* The Mother Hips @ Highland Ballroom
* Tanlines, Supreme Cuts @ Webster Hall
* West End Motel, Ricer @ Mercury Lounge
* Sky Ferreira, Rewards @ Mercury Lounge
* Evan Calder Williams @ Issue Project Room
* Lydia Loveless, NGHBRS, Coasta @ Webster Hall
* Bush Tetras, Sediment Club @ Le Poisson Rouge
* Double King, Backwords, Cold Fronts @ Union Pool
* Other Lives, Indians @ Music Hall of Williamsburg
* The Oats, At Sea, Gift Horse, Jane Eyre @ Union Hall
* Infinity Shred, Life Size Maps, Big Ups @ Muchmore's
* Mount Eerie, Heaven's Gate, Advaita, These Days @ NYU
* The Gaslight Anthem, Matthew Ryan, Cheap Girls @ Terminal 5
* Nightlands, Eastern Midwestern, Eliza Hardy Jones @ Glasslands
* OSMO screening, Dj Dog Dick, Megafortress, Gem Trails @ The Lab
* Hooray For Earth, Cymbals Eat Guitars, Zambri, Grooms @ Pianos
* Cosmonaut, Peanut Butter Lovesicle, French Camp @ Cameo Gallery
* Super Vacations, Dull Edges, Sex Scheme, Residuals @ Death By Audio
* Title Fight, Pianos Become The Teeth, Single Mothers @ Bowery Ballroom
* Hip Hop Gods tour w/ Public Enemy, X Clan, Black Sheep + more @ Irving Plaza
* Thomas Francis Takes His Chances, I am the Heat, Janet Labelle, Velta @ Cake Shop
* ZOZO Afrobeat, Sophistafunk, PitchBlak Brass Band, illSupremO, The Rainbow Children @ Paper Box
* 2S & 4S, Bad Credit No Credit, Not Blood Paint, Eartheater, Family Curse, Rat Attack @ Shea Stadium

West End Motel, who play a late show tonight at Mercury Lounge, is the side project of Mastodon's Brett Hinds. The band has a new album, Only Time Will Tell, and you cans stream the title track below.

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The Babies just released a video for their song "Baby" which is from their just-released debut album, Our House on the Hill, and you can watch it below.

Eternal Summers also have a new video, this one for "Good As You" which is the fourth one they've made from their terrific 2012 album, Correct Behavior, and you can watch that below too.

What else?

Continue reading "What's going on Thursday?"

by Bill Pearis

The Babies @ Glasslands, 6/6/12 (more by Tamara Porras)

There have been a lot of benefit concerts here in NYC to aid Hurricane Sandy victims and there are likely to be even more to come. There certainly are a lot of people who still need our help. Here are a few we just learned about.

The Babies record release show at Knitting Factory on Tuesday (11/13) we already alerted you to has become a Hurricane Sandy benefit of sorts. You can get $2 off the door with a donation for Hurricane Sandy Relief. Here's what's needed:

-Heavy duty cleaning supplies: bleach, industrial trash bags, contractor bags, brooms, mops, buckets, simple green, work gloves, goggles
-Blankets,
-Warm clothing, like heavy coats, gloves, hats, scarves.
-Diapers, baby food, bottles, formula.
-Food in general but specifically food that is appropriate for children (snack foods, cereal, rice, pb&j, bread)-
-Some places need flashlights & batteries, especially C or D.

Also on Tuesday in Williamsburg, the Finger on the Pulse / Snacky Tunes guys are throwing a Sandy relief benefit at Cameo featuring Moon Hooch, Emil & Friends and Erika Spring with DJ sets from Computer Magic. $5 at the door with 100% of the door and 10% of the bar going to the Red Hook Initiative. Flyer for the show is below.

Backing up a bit, on Sunday afternoon (11/11) at Matchless there's a benefit show with BV faves Heliotropes, DC bandShark Week, plus Zula, and Fantasmes. The party goes from 3 - 7 PM and is a $10 donation at the door. 100% door + 10% bar will be donated to New York Cares.

Shark Week are also playing another Sandy relief benefit the night before (11/10) at XPO 929 with Love Darling, and Clinical Trials. $8 at the door, more info here.

Flyers and contest details are below.

Continue reading "More Hurricane Sandy relief benefit shows: The Babies, Erika Spring, Heliotropes and more"

The Babies have announced details on their second album, Our House On The Hill, which is due November 13 via Woodsist. The album was recorded back in February in Los Angeles with producer Rob Barbato (Darker My Love, The Fall, Cass McCombs). You can stream "Get Lost" from the album below, where you can also check out the cover art and tracklist.

The band will celebrate the album's release with a show at Knitting Factory the same day (11/13). No details on openers or advance tickets just yet, but the show will be the start of a fairly extensive North American tour that will have them on the road till the holidays. All dates are listed below.

Continue reading "The Babies ready new LP, going on tour including NYC record release show (dates, stream)"

by Andrew Sacher

What do you when you're the drummer of Real Estate but you leave the band just before they start getting way bigger? Form a disco band! At least that's what Etienne Pierre Duguay, who sat behind the band's kit until 2011 when he was replaced by Jackson Pollis, did. He's now in the Brooklyn band Splash who surfaced earlier this year and just wrapped up a tour with fellow Brooklyn backwards pop thinkers Friends. Their single, "Ever Before," which you can stream below, is filled with '80s pop radio cliches, but if you wait over two decades and make it lo-fi, even the cheesiest stuff becomes indie accepted, right?

If you missed the Splash/Friends tour, the two bands will team up again for a NYC show on August 3 at 285 Kent with Janka Nabay, Helado Negro, and Uumans. Maybe Friends will go topless again? Tickets for that show are on sale now.

Splash have other upcoming NYC shows too, including Summerscreen at McCarren Park on August 15 with Ducktails and The Babies, and Glasslands on August 24 with Puro Instinct, Outer Limitz, and a Dev Hynes DJ set. Tickets for the Glasslands show are still available.

A list of all dates and song stream below...

Continue reading "Friends & Janka Nabay playing 285 Kent w/ Splash (who have other upcoming shows too)"

Beach Day at Knitting Factory, June 2012 (more by Amanda Hatfield)

Hollywood, Florida's Beach Day are visiting NYC again, playing two shows: tonight (7/25) at Public Assembly with The Babies (of a few shows the Babies have going on), Wild Yaks and Daytona; and Cake Shop Thursday (7/26) with charming local indie poppers Chalk & Numbers, and Island Twins. All Beach Day tour dates are listed below.

As mentioned before, Beach Day have signed with Kanine Records who just released the band's debut 7". Echoing early '60s pop, it's custom-made for sunny weather and comes on white vinyl, to match your jeans. You can stream both sides of the single below.

Continue reading "Beach Day playing 2 NYC shows this week; stream their new 7""

by Bill Pearis

DOWNLOAD: Levek - Black Mold Grow (MP3)

Levek

Gainsville, FL's David Levesque will release his debut album under his Levek alias, Look A Little Closer, on September 25 via Lefse Records. You may remember 2010 single "Look on the Bright Side," which dove deep into widescreen psychedelic funk. Look A Little Closer finds him dipping even more explicitly into '60s tropicalia be it Sergio Mendez-style trippy excursions to more trad bossa nova, as well as delicate folk. It makes for a refreshing listen on these hot humid summer nights we're currently experiencing. You can download the album's first single, "Black Mold Grow," at the top of this post.

Levek just launched a little East Coast tour that will hit NYC this weekend with two shows: Friday (7/20) at Pianos with Tropic of Pisces and Bad Girlfriend (tickets), and Glasslands on Saturday (7/18) as part of good line-up that includes Dent May and The Babies (tickets). All Levek tour dates are below.

The Babies

The Glasslands show is the first of four upcoming Brooklyn shows for The Babies who just wrapped up a tour of the West Coast. They're also playing July 25 at Public Assembly with Wild Yaks, Beach Day, Daytona and DJ's Total Slacker (tickets), July 28 at Union Pool opening for The Soft Pack, and August 15 at Union Pool with Deep Time. The Babies new album, Our House on the Hill, is due out on Woodsist this fall but the first single from it, "Moonlight Mile" (not a Rolling Stones cover), is out next month.

Continue reading "Levek readies debut LP (MP3), on tour, playing 2 NYC shows this weekend; The Babies playing 4 upcoming Brooklyn shows"

DOWNLOAD: Deep Time - Homebody (MP3)

As we mentioned previously, Austin, TX's Deep Time (formerly YellowFever) release their debut album today (7/10) via Hardly Art. The whole record is streaming but if you want something to download, we've got the MP3 premiere of the album's moody new single, "Homebody," which you can download above.

The band have expanded their previously-announced tour, including a second NYC date, happening at Union Pool on August 15 with The Babies. That's the day before their show at 285 Kent (8/16) with just-added opener Talk Normal.

Updated Deep Time tour dates are listed below...

Continue reading "Deep Time release new single from debut LP (MP3 premiere), expand tour (dates), playing Union Pool before 285 Kent"

Tickets for the Swans show at Bowery Ballroom go on AmEx presale today at noon.

Tickets for the Morrissey shows at Terminal 5 go on AmEx presale today at noon.

Tickets for the Justice show at Hammerstein go on AmEx presale today at noon.

Tickets for the Jens Lekman and Taken by Trees show at Terminal 5 go on AmEx presale today at noon.

Tickets for the Calexico and The Dodos show at Webster Hall go on AmEx presale today at noon.

Tickets for the Old 97s show at Webster Hall go on AmEx presale today at noon.

Tickets for the Squarepusher show at Terminal 5 with Mount Kimbie, Holy Fuck, and Bonobo (DJ) go on AmEx presale today at noon.

Tickets for the Jon Spencer Blues Explosion show at Bowery Ballroom go on AmEx presale today at noon.

Tickets for the Two Door Cinema Club show at Central Park Summerstage go on AmEx presale today at noon.

Tickets for The Presets show at Terminal 5 go on AmEx presale today at noon.

The Babies play Public Assembly on July 25 with Night Manager, Beach Day, Daytona, and Total Slacker (DJ). Tickets for that show are on sale now.

Brother Ali is playing Bowery Ballroom on September 27 with Blank Tape Beloved, Homeboy Sandman, DJ Sosa, and The Reminders. Tickets for that show go on AmEx presale today at noon with a general sale starting Friday (6/29) at noon.

Alberta Cross, who just played Governors Ball, will be back in NYC for a show at Bowery Ballroom on September 13. Tickets for that show go on AmEx presale today at noon with a general sale starting Friday (6/29) at noon.

Tickets for the Kool AD (of Das Racist) show at Mercury Lounge go on AmEx presale today at noon.

Speaking of Das Racist, Heems will DJ at Cameo on Friday (6/29) with live sets by three caps-lock loving bands, SAFE, ARMS, and CRUX. Heems also plays Gramercy Theater on 7/3 with Prodigy.

photos by Tamara Porras

"A. I love glass lands B. I love the babies. What a great show!" - Lara Hodulick

The Babies at Glasslands - 6/6/12

The Babies joined up with new Other Music Recording Co. singees Nude Beach, plus Marvin Berry & The New Sound, Highway Gimps for a show at Glasslands on Wednesday (6/6). More pictures from that show are in this post.

You'll have plenty more chances to catch Nude Beach in NYC.

Continue reading "The Babies played Glasslands w/ Nude Beach, Marvin Berry & the New Sound & Highway Gimps (pics)"

by Bill Pearis

DOWNLOAD: Dent May - Best Friend (MP3)

Dent May

Dent May's new album, Do Things, is out June 12 via Paw Tracks, and those expecting more of his magnificent ukulele may be in for a surprise. Having traded his signature instrument for synthesizers, drum machines and electric guitar, Do Things sounds like May has spent the time between albums listening to that Orange Juice box set and his baritone croon works well with his new, funkier sound. You can download the very OJ-ish single "Best Friend" at the top of this post and watch the video for it below.

Dent plays 285 Kent tonight (5/18), the last date of a short East Coast tour, and shares the bill with Family Portrait, The Babies, William Tyler and Ducktails on DJ duties. He then takes a month off before launching an extensive North American tour with Quintron and Miss Pussycat that will not hit the East Coast unfortunately. All Dent May tour dates are listed below.

While we're on Kent Ave, right next door at Glasslands tonight (5/18) is Big Troubles who have taken most of 2012 off. They play with The Hairs and Punks on Mars. Tickets for tonight's show are still available.

Punks on Mars are signed to Zoo Music, the label run by Dee Dee of Dum Dum Girls and Brandon of Crocodiles. They just released their new 7" EP, Hey Tiffany, and it's got a compressed early-'80s new wave feel to it. Fans of Cleaner from Venus, Chris Stamey-era dB's or even Ariel Pink might want to take a listen -- you can stream the whole thing at the bottom of this post.

That stream, along with the Dent May video, and a list of all dates below...

Continue reading "Dent May releasing new LP (MP3) playing 285 Kent tonight; Punks on Mars have a new EP, playing Glasslands tonight"

by BBG

Brooklyn band Nude Beach's new LP II has a a pronounced punk edge, while falling somewhere between the Americana of Tom Petty, Bruce Springsteen and The Replacements. The sunny, well-crafted, and damn-near infinitely playable straight-up rock n' roll long-player, out now on vinyl, is currently streaming in full below. Order your copy via No Idea or get the digital via the band.

Nude Beach will play Glasslands on June 6th, joining Marvin Berry & The New Sound and Highway Gimps as support for The Babies. Tickets are on sale. The band will also hit Philadelphia on June 19th at Kung Fu Necktie as support for Reigning Sound (tickets) during that band's string of dates (that hit NJ).

Stream the new LP and check out some live video below.

Continue reading "stream Nude Beach's new LP, see them in Brooklyn or Philly"

Theophilus London will headline the "Official Northside Festival Opening Party" at Music Hall of Williamsburg on Thursday, June 16th. Tickets go on AmEx presale Wednesday at noon, and then general sale Friday at noon. You can also try to get in with a Northside Festival badge.

The hip hop artist is one of 65+ new artists being officially added to the lineup of this year's Northside Festival (June 16-19 in various venues across Williamsburg and Greenpoint, Brooklyn, NY). Here's the full list:

Continue reading "Northside Fest adds 65+ bands to lineup, Theophilus @ MHOW, Mount Eerie, Iceage & more ++ open studios & DIY films"