Calexico

As you may know already, Passion Pit are currently on tour and will play NYC at Madison Square Garden on February 8 with Matt & Kim opening…

UK music magazine Uncut put out their list of the top 75 albums of 2012. The top ten leans pretty heavy on long-running ’60s/’70s survivors who put out new albums this year, but plenty of the list-topping regulars from newer acts are on there too, along with a few interesting surprises (Sun Araw, M Geddes Gengras & the Congos…

Love, Minutemen (specifically the eventual Jackass theme “Corona”) and Leonard Cohen were all the target of covers during their October 13 appearance at Webster Hall…

This one gets a big “!!!!”. Listen to the song, with more info about the above-pictured new holiday album, below…

How was your Columbus Day? We didn’t take off, and posted a whole bunch on BV, BV Chicago, and BV Austin, and here’s even more… As you can see above, Emceez Ansari is really good at photoshopping Aziz Ansari‘s face into album covers…

Nineties alt-rock heroes Garbage returned this year with a new album, a refreshed attitude and a Shirley Manson who looked like she hasn’t aged a day in her life…

DOWNLOAD: Calexico – “Para” (MP3) Calexico, who opened for Death Cab For Cutie at Taste of Chicago on July 12, are set to release their new album, Algiers, on September 11 via ANTI-…

DOWNLOAD: Calexico & Ranier — “Be Prepared” (MP3) As mentioned in the beginning of June, “Calexico released a video for ‘Para,’ the first single from their new album Algiers which is out September 11…

today in NYC * Gregg Kallor @ Barbes * Kelli Scarr @ Joe’s Pub * Hannah Cohen @ The Stone * Slavic Soul Party @ Barbes * Blind Pilot @ Webster Hall * Tell Your Friends @ Lolita Bar * Labrinth @ Santos Party House * Johnny Gandelsman @ The Stone * Knife City, Aimes @ Glasslands * Jimmy Cliff @ Prospect Park Bandshell * Man Man, Diamond Doves @ Brooklyn Bowl *  Hayes Peebles, Last Good Tooth @ Cake Shop * The Liza Colby Sound, The Juggs @ Mercury Lounge * Alejandro Escovedo, Jesse Malin @ Bowery Ballroom * Emeli Sande, Selah Sue @ Music Hall of Williamsburg * The Temper Trap, School of Seven Bells @ Terminal 5 * The Dandy Warhols, 1776, Psychic Ills @ Irving Plaza * Rodney Crowell & Mary Karr w Steuart Smith @ Joe’s Pub * Beast Patrol, The Stationary Set and Clementine @ Cameo * Apollo the Great, Freeway, Sean Price @ Apple Store SoHo * The Clean, Times New Viking, Day Eye @ Le Poisson Rouge * Cochemea Gastelum, Smoota, Morricone Youth @ Union Pool *  Tim Rogers (You Am I), Daniel Wayne @ Mercury Lounge * Beechwood, Glass Vaults, Earth Science, Laura Airaksinen @ Pianos * Ed Schrader’s Music Beat, The Holy Shakes, Mr. Tr…

We just posted about Austra who’s coming back to North America (including 9/19 at Music Hall of Williamsburg) after a tour of Europe. She’s also one of many artists playing the 2012 Osheaga Festival in Montreal which happens August 3 – 5…