Kyle Dean Reinford

Tara Jane O’Neil opened with her minimalist folk, backed by a drummer and a guitarist. The music, especially the last song with Mirah on bells and backups, explored pulses and rhythms with a droning guitar and extremely spare instrumentation…

Thanks to everyone who played and attended the free BrooklynVegan party at Pianos yesterday (10/23). We’re working as fast as possible (on no sleep) to get CMJ coverage up (while still attending as much of CMJ as possible), but before it’s too late I wanted to highlight at least one band who played the show…

& Passion Pit were a perfect mini-bill all by themselves. Last night at Music Hall (10/21), Ponytail played after Shearwater who played after the Sammies who played after Emmy the Great…

It went Emmy –> Sammies –> secret guest Shearwater. I’ve seen the Austin band a bunch, including at my official showcase at SXSW earlier this year, and this Music Hall of Williamsburg performance was my favorite yet (10/21)…

Thanks all for a great night. I’m really sorry if anyone was disappointed at all, especially in the “singing DJ” Jens Lekman. I do admit that during Jens’ set I thought, “why won’t he sing more…

If you pay attention to the NYC weekly papers, you probably already noticed that this week offers both The Best of 2008 Voice issue AND the music issue of the NY Press – complete with a big picture of Gogol Bordello on the cover and a list of their choice for the top 20 (NYC…

(though not even close to metal) Last month, indie rock blog Productshop NYC shuttered it’s doors (RIP) to make way for Stories In High Fidelity, a place “for bands, record stores, labels and writers to share their stories, tour diaries, memories and so much more”, a sort of “Huffington Post of music”, if you will…

M.I.A.N.E.R.D. Diesel Post 1, Post 2, Post 3, and the end…

His latest CD, “Paper Trail,” sold more than 560,000 copies in its first week to debut at No. 1 on the Billboard Top 200 album charts, and his newest single, “Live Your Life” featuring Rihanna, supplanted the album’s first single, “Whatever You Like,” at No…

Not to be negative – overall a great night, but besides the hour+ wait to get a single drink, the biggest disappointment of Saturday night’s free Diesel party was Hot Chip‘s extremely short set which was slightly made up for by the fact that Hot Chip immediately turned into Chakha Khan‘s backing band for some more songs – not an amazing feat, but out-of-the-ordinary enough to make it exciting…