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Crazy & the Brains playing tons of NYC/NJ shows, one with Night Birds (who topped Punk News' Best of 2015 list)

NJ’s xylophone-fueled punks Crazy & the Brains have a ton of shows coming up in NYC/NJ, as usual. Their NYC shows include Pianos on Friday (1/15) with The Black Clouds, Those Mocking Birds, Dead Stars and Darkwing (tickets); a free show at Pine Box Rock Shop on Saturday (1/16); one at Palisades on January 21 with Larry & the Babes, Bodega Bay and Little Cobweb (tickets); Good Room on January 30 with Philly folk punks Mischief Brew (headlining), The Homewreckers and Out of System Transfer (tickets); a release party for their new video at Le Poisson Rouge on February 6 with comedian Brett Davis (who they’ve played with before) and High Waisted (tickets); back to

What's going on Wednesday? (Grimes, Mr. Twin Sisters, !!!, Lee Fields, Joan as Policewoman, Cabinet of Wonders & more

You can browse our full NYC show calendar for all of tonight’s shows, but here are some highlights… Grimes, Nicole Dollanganger @ Music Hall of Williamsburg Grimes’ new album Art Angels is in some ways a natural progression from Visions but it also explores a ton of new gro…

watch Adult Dude's new video for "Bonehead," catch their LP release show w/ Dead Stars & Katie Ellen (ex-Chumped)

Back in the spring, we wrote about Adult Moods, the debut album from Brooklyn’s Adult Dude. It’s out now on Animal Style Records (order yours) and the band recently gave the video treatment to “Bonehead,” which premieres in this p…

Chumped played their last pre-hiatus show at The Fest (watch their full set); members playing other shows

Brooklyn pop punks Chumped were one of the more promising local bands of late. They put out one full length and two EPs over the past two years, but unfortunately they announced that the set they played at The Fest this past weekend would be their last before an indefinite …

Bushwick bar Kings County Saloon hosting live music (Dead Stars, Starlight Girls, GDP & more on upcoming schedule)

Though Brooklyn has sadly lost a few great venues recently, new ones continue to pop up. In addition to Palisades, Aviv, Alphaville, The Shop and more, shows have been happening at Bushwick bar Kings County Saloon (1 Knickerbocker A…

What's going on Thursday? (Ride, Wire, Refused, Hutch and Cathy, Iron Reagan, Holly Herndon, Josh Berwanger, more)

You can browse our full NYC show calendar for all of tonight’s shows, but here are some highlights… Ride, Ash @ Terminal 5 While lumped in with shoegaze, Ride were poppier than most bands of that era, and more of a psychedelic rock band than anything else…

tix on sale: Neurosis, Super Furry Animals, Failure, Tigers Jaw, Hall & Oates, Of Monsters & Men, Electric Zoo, Ibeyi, more

Tickets for the Neurosis/Brothers of The Sonic Cloth/Sumac show at Warsaw go on sale today at 1PM. Hall & Oates are playing Jones Beach Theatre on July…

The Glazzies releasing an EP ft. Dinosaur Jr's Murph on drums, playing NYC tonight w/ Dead Stars & Strange Names

Dinosaur Jr producer Justin Pizzoferrato has been the go-to guy for younger bands who want to get a similar aesthetic to Dino’s ’80s/’90s indie rock, like Speedy Ortiz, California X, Blessed State, Placeholder and more…

Radical Dads releasing 'Universal Coolers' in February (listen to two songs), celebrating with Brooklyn show

Radical Dads are back with their third album, Universal Coolers, which will be out February 24 via Old Flame. The trio make no bones about their love of ’90s indie rock so it’s extremely fitting that the cover art for the new album was done by prolific Greenpoint artist Steve Keene, who did the same for Pavement‘s Wowee Zowee and Apples in Stereo‘s Fun Trick Noisemaker and others…

What's going on Friday? (Neneh Cherry, Future Islands, High on Fire, !!!, YG, Hailu Mergia, Roman a Clef & more)

You can browse our full NYC show calendar for all of tonight’s shows, but here are some highlights… Neneh Cherry, Sinkane, Kaki King @ Highline Ballroom Nearly 30 years after “Buffalo Stance” (and with a new, Four Tet-produced LP under her belt), Neneh Cherry plays her first-ever NYC show tonight with solid support…
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