Amanda Hatfield
Zola Jesus played Warsaw during Northside Festival (pics)
After the Run the Jewels show at 50 Kent on Sunday, we headed to Warsaw to wrap up the 2015 Northside Festival with Zola Jesus. (Blanck Mass and Container played too, but we had missed them by t…
Holly Miranda celebrated new LP at Knitting Factory, announces tour (pics, dates, LP stream, video)
Holly Miranda celebrated the release of her self-titled second album on Saturday (6/13) at Knitting Factory, which was also part of Northside Festival…
Run the Jewels played 50 Kent in the rain with Nas, Gangsta Boo, Despot, Mr. Len, Vince Staples, Sleigh Bells (pics/video)
& PSquared Photography
The Northside festival shows at 50 Kent wrapped up yesterday (6/14) with Run the Jewels, Sleigh Bells, and Vinc…
Best Coast, Built to Spill, Alvvays & Bully played Northside at 50 Kent (pics, BTS setlist)
Northside Festival was in full swing on Saturday (6/13) with shows happening all over Williamsburg, Greenpoint and Bushwick all day and through the night…
Against Me! played McCarren Park w/ Mitski & Cayetana (pics, setlist), announce live album
After playing Bonnaroo on Friday, Against Me! brought their tour to NYC for a free afternoon show in McCarren Park, part of Brooklyn’s Northside Fe…
Lower Dens covered Hall & Oates at MHOW w/ TEEN (pics ++ "Maneater" video from London show)
Lower Dens played Music Hall of Williamsburg on Thursday (6/11), a show that was part of the Baltimore band’s current tour as well as the 2015 Northside Festival…
Belle & Sebastian and Real Estate played Radio City Music Hall (pics, setlist)
Belle & Sebastian finally brought their Girls in Peacetime Want to Dance tour to NYC (the album came out in January), playing the tony digs that are Radio City Music Hall. Th…
Refused played MHOW with Creepoid & Obliterations, then a late show at Saint Vitus (pics, setlist) ++ LA in-store video
Last night (6/4) on stage at Music Hall of Williamsburg, Refused singer Dennis Lyxzen told the crowd how he was a metalhead as a kid, but one day traded his copy of Napalm Death’s Scum for a Youth of Today record, and the rest was history…
Purity Ring played two nights at Terminal 5 with Braids and Born Gold (pics from night 2)
It certainly has been interesting to watch Purity Ring‘s transformation from their early days as a somewhat mysterious act with a fantastical/whimsical stage show to the band that played Terminal 5 twice this week on their tour and, last night (6/3), had singer Megan James crowdsurfing in her white jumpsuit…
Dev Hynes, Sam Amidon, Thao Nguyen, Richard Reed Parry, Cults & more paid tribute to Arthur Russell at BAM (pics)
Mr. Russell’s eerie, solitary side was assigned to Lonnie Holley, singing in a bluesy, abstracted tone (and sometimes whistling) over clusters sustained on an electric keyboard; to Sam Amidon, who played terse banjo parts and sang with quizzical innocence; and to Richard Reed Parry, playing bass and singing just above a whisper…
