Aislers Set

(via) Michael Bolton, who seems to have a good sense of humor about his crappy music, will star as himself in new sitcom Michael Bolton’s Daughter Is Destroying My Life according to Deadline…

The second night of Chickfactor’s three day 20th Anniversary may not have had the one-two punch of the previous evening’s reformed Black Tambourine and Small Factory, but it did have The Aislers Set who hadn’t played in NYC (or much of anywhere else) in nearly ten years…

DOWNLOAD: Black Tambourine – What’s Your Game? (MP3) Between most songs in Black Tambourine’s set, Mike Schulman, Archie Moore, and (Washington City Paper staffer) Brian Nelson switched off between guitar, bass, and percussion…

DOWNLOAD: Black Tambourine – What’s Your Game? (MP3) The first night of chickfactor 2012: for the love of pop, which features sets from reunited Black Tambourine and Small Factory, sold out pretty quick, so Black Tambourine have added another show at Maxwells on Monday April 9 for those who didn’t get tickets…

 will celebrate its 20-year anniversary with five blissful nights of sparkling indie pop on the Northeast Corridor of the USA (three in NY; two in DC) including the first shows in years and Fan Modine and rare performances from such pop luminaries asStevie Jackson (Belle & Sebastian), Frankie Rose, Lilys, Lorelei, Dot Dash, Versus, Bridget St John and Honey Bunch. c…

post written with the assistance of Andrew Sacher Chelsea Wolfe is currently on a tour in support of her upcoming LP Apokalypsis. As mentioned, Chelsea and her band play a non-Way Out West show tonight (8/10) in Gothenburg, Sweden, the same city the festival takes place in this week…

Influential indie label Slumberland Records turned 20 in 2009 and celebrated this landmark with two big birthday shows — one in Washington DC (where it got its start) and one in Brooklyn (where much of Slumberland’s current roster reside)…