Alan Licht

Twenty artists are covering Galaxie 500 to celebrate the Record Store Day reissue of their live Copenhagen album, including Mark Lanegan, Mercury Rev, Calvin Johnson, Papercuts, The Feelies’ Glenn Mercer, and more.

Archival Sonic Youth live recordings, previously unreleased Wylde Ratttz material, a recording of the only live performance by Kim Gordon’s Supreme Indifference, and more SY-related releases are out in time for today’s Bandcamp fundraiser…

The video is made from video submitted by friends and fans from all over the world during lockdown. “Isolation” is from Lee’s 1998 album Amarillo Ramp (for Robert Smithson) which just hit Lee’s Bandcamp.

Tonight’s NYC-area shows include Swervedriver, Steely Dan, Charli XCX, Bizarre Ride II The Pharcyde, W.I.T.C.H. (We Intend To Cause Havoc), Beach Slang, Stiff Little Fingers, and more.

Tonight’s NYC-area shows include Kacey Musgraves, Wu-Tang Clan, Les Savy Fav, Black Sabbath all-star cover band, Jah Division, Martin Rev, Richard Lloyd, and more.

They played almost all of their classic 1977 debut Marquee Moon, plus the very early, never properly released cut “I’m Gonna Find You,” their version of Count Five’s “Psychotic Reaction,” and more

Also appearing at Steve’s Union Pool residency: Loren Connors & Alan Licht, and Little Black Egg (Georgia Hubley of Yo La Tengo).

It’s the unofficial start of summer and we’ve got some suggests for musical stuff to see this long holiday weekend in NYC.

Like a lot of guitarists, Steve Gunn cites Johnny Marr as an influence. He shows his love for Marr’s first real band, The Smiths, by covering two early Smiths songs — “This Night Has Opened My Eyes” and “The Hand That Rocks the Cradle”…

Drummer Bobby Kapp and pianist Matthew Shipp will release their new album, Cactus, this Friday via Northern Spy. It’s the two jazz vets’ first recording together as a duo, though they have played together in other combos and collaborations before…