Cassie Ramone

Plus: Justin Timberlake, Shannon & The Clams, LCD Soundsystem, Hannah Diamond, Liam Gallagher & John Squire, Erick the Architect, Tibet House lineup additions & more tour and festival news.

Sunday’s NYC-area shows include Fiddlehead, The Bouncing Souls, Shop Talk, Fatboi Sharif, Colleen Green, Cassie Ramone, and more.

Plus: Cassie Ramone & Colleen Green, Carina Round (Puscifer), Voxtrot, Sun Ra Arkestra, Noise Pop 2024, and more tour and festival news.

The Garden, Las Rosas, White Mystery, Peach Kelli Pop, The Aquadolls, Surfbort, Olden Yolk and Bleached also responded after Burger Records responded to allegations of sexual misconduct against associated bands and employees, and ultimately shut down entirely.

Wednesday show options include The Hold Steady, Bon Iver & TU Dance, The Rapture, Cher, Hoops, Molly Burch, Bela Fleck & The Flecktones, Young Guv, and more.

This week: reviews of new releases from Vivian Girls, Chastity Belt, and Operator Music Band, plus career retrospective comps from Black Box Recorder and The Springfields.

Vivian Girls broke up in 2014, playing farewell shows at Baby’s All Right, and Death by Audio. Now, five years later, Cassie Ramone, Katy Goodman and Ali Koehler (who all live in L.A. now) have reformed Vivian Girls and are releasing their first album in eight years…

Spacey California indie rock band Duster were only together for a short time in the late ’90s, but they cast a long shadow, and are now back in action…

Reunited indie vets Duster are opening (Sandy) Alex G’s sold-out Brooklyn show, and playing a headlining Brooklyn show the next night with Blackplate (ex-Tina, Age 13), Ice Balloons (ft. Kyp of TVOTR), and Cassie Ramone (Vivian Girls).

Plus: Darlene Love, Ronnie Spector, Murray Hill, Landlady, Eliot Glazer’s Haunting Renditions, and more Christmas, Hanukkah and other holiday shows in NYC this season.