Christopher Owens

Christopher Owens releasing new LP and touring this fall, including two NYC shows (dates, new video)

Former Girls frontman Christopher Owens will release his second album under his own name on September 30 via the new North American arm of Welsh label Turnstile…

Outside Lands 2014 lineup: Kanye, Tom Petty, Arctic Monkeys, Flaming Lips, Disclosure, Spoon, Death Cab & more

Outside Lands Festival returns to San Francisco’s Golden Gate Park from August 8 – 10. This year’s lineup was just announced and includes Kanye West, Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers, Arctic Monkeys, Death Cab for Cutie, Disclosure, The Flaming Lips, Spoon, Haim, Lykke Li, and more…

Gruff Rhys shares title track from 'American Interior,' premiering his film and performing at SXSW

You may remember that Gruff Rhys‘s American Interior is coming out as an album, book, film and interactive mobile app in May. Gruff just released the title track to this multifaceted project and you can stream it below…

SXSW adds Kurt Vile, Sam Smith, Chance the Rapper, Mark Kozelek, Perfume Genius, Schoolboy Q & more to 2014 lineup

Kurt Vile in Austin in 2013 (more by Glen Brown) There’s already been three lineup announcements for SXSW 2014, and since we last spoke the music schedule was posted, which revealed more artist additions…

download a free, acoustic version of Christopher Owens' 'Lysandre'; see him on tour in June

Christopher Owens @ Bowery Ballroom, Jan. 2013 (more by Amanda Hatfield) Christopher Owens is offering up an acoustic version of last year’s solo album, Lysandre, available as a free download from his website…

Christopher Owens offering free acoustic version of 'Lysandre' (download it), playing the Hideout on solo tour

As seen on BrooklynVegan, former Girls frontman Christopher Owens has made an acoustic version of his debut solo effort, Lysandre, available for free download via his website…

What's going on Thursday?

today in Chicago * Jeff Tweedy @ the Vic (Night 2) * Caspian, Native, Cut Teeth @ Subterranean * The Island of Misfit Toys, Dowsing, Sharpless @ Beat Kitchen * Behold…

What's going on Wednesday?

Nude Beach at Bowery Ballroom last week (more by David Andrako) today in NYC * Barb Jungr @ Joe’s Pub * Soulive @ Brooklyn Bowl * Wolfgang Gil @ The Stone * Alan Bjorklund @ The Stone * Champagne Jerry @ Joe’s Pub * Matt Bauder @ The Manhattan Inn * The Mandingo Ambassadors @ Barbes * Melting Pot anniversary @ Pianos * Jason Robinson’s Janus Quartet @ Barbes * The Allman Brothers Band @ Beacon Theatre * John Nolan (Taking Back Sunday) @ Maxwell’s * Seaven Teares, M…

Christopher Owens played Bowery Ballroom with Melted Toys (pics); will do it again tonight

Christopher Owens played his first of two Bowery Ballroom shows last night (1/21). Playing the bulk of his solo debut, Lysandre, which barely clocks in at a half-hour, the former Girls frontman then came back for a set of covers…

Christopher Owens celebrated the release of 'Lysandre' at Lincoln Hall (pics, review)

Before lights dimmed to black on the final act of a psych-pop opera steeped in San Francisco folk and classical songcraft, Christopher Owens broke studied concentration to hand out bunches of white and red roses to the first few rows of patient fans…
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