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Remembering Cake Shop (pics, video, tributes)
The Lower East Side indie rock venue closed on New Year's Eve weekend.
Heavenly Beat
Heavenly Beat
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Heavenly Beat readies fourth album, shares “Intent” (listen)
Heavenly Beat, aka onetime Beach Fossils bassist John Peña, will release his fourth album, titled Designer, later this year and has just shared it's first single, "Intent...
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Teen Daze released the John Vanderslice-produced ‘Morning World,’ touring w/ Heavenly Beat this fall (dates, LP stream)
British Columbia's Teen Daze has come along way since the chillwave days of so long ago (2010). His new album, Morning World (his first in three years), was made with producer John Vanderslice in less than two weeks with nary a synthesizer in earshot...
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Craft Spells expand tour, add free NYC show w/ Foxes in Fiction & Heavenly Beat (who have a new LP & tour)
After two albums on Captured Tracks, John Peña self-released Euchraist, his third album as Heavenly Beat, late last year. The record, which he calls the final segment of his "Prelude To Greatness" trilogy, doesn't stray from the Heavenly Beat formula: nylon-string and slide guitar, steel drums, pizzicato strings, hushed vocals and simple, funky beats...
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Savannah Stopover announces full 2015 lineup
Now in its fifth year, the Savannah Stopover has established itself as a smaller, genteel alternative to SXSW, happening March 5 - 7 in Savannah, GA right before Austin's megafest, featuring bands on their way there...
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Savannah Stopover 2015 initial lineup revealed & tix on sale
Like in past years, Georgia's Savannah Stopover will go down shortly before SXSW, and will likely have a good amount of overlap. The 2015 edition is their 5th anniversary and happens March 5-7...
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Beach Fossils touring with Heavenly Beat and Axxa/Abraxas, playing two nights at Baby’s All Right (dates)
Three bands from Captured Tracks' roster -- Beach Fossils, Heavenly Beat and Axxa/Abraxas -- will be hitting the road together this fall. The tour kicks off with two nights at NYC's Baby's All Right on September 26 & 27...
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What’s going on Friday? (Infest, Martyrdoom III, The Young, A$AP Ferg, Crystal Stilts, Del Close Marathon, Latyrx, more)
Infest in Miami in 2013 (more by Kris Alan Carter)
You can browse our full NYC show calendar for all of tonight's shows, but here are some highlights...
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The Mary Onettes streaming ‘Portico,’ cancel US tour but not SXSW dates
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The Mary Onettes prep mini-LP, ‘Portico,’ touring around SXSW (dates & new track stream)
Having released Hit the Waves less than a year ago, Jönköping, Sweden's The Mary Onettes return with a new mini-album, titled Portico, which will be out later this year on their longtime home of Labrador Records...