Literature
NYC Popfest starts tonight at Cake Shop with The School, Zipper, Thee Ahs, Literature and more (streams)
DOWLOAD: 2013 NYC Popfest Mix (Zip)
The 2013 edition of NYC Popfest kicks off tonight (5/30), as it always does, at Cake Shop with a six-band bill spanning two continents and four countries…
a guide to NYC #RSD13 in-store performances & special events
As you are probably aware, this Saturday (4/20) is Record Store Day. We’ve already told you some of our picks from the myriad #RSD13 exclusives, but many of NYC’s record stores are having special events that day…
The Bats, Close Lobsters, The Wolfhounds, The School, Flowers and more playing 2013 NYC Popfest (line-up, tix on sale)
We already knew that The Monochrome Set would be performing at this year’s NYC Popfest (May 30 – June 2) but now the rest of the line-up has been announced and it’s pretty great with appearances from New Zealand Flying Nun legends The Bats, two bands who featured on NME’s legendary C-86 cassette (Scotland’s Close Lobsters and London’s The Wolfhounds), and long-running California band The Orange Peels; plus newer bands like Wales’ The School, UK group Flowers, Hobbes Fanclub and Tigercats, Sweden’s Alpaca Sport and Azur Blue, Norway’s Making Marks, and Spain’s Zipper; and American groups Ringo Deathstarr, Math & Physics Club, Literature, Ski Lodge and more…
Literature released an LP, have a new single, playing shows (dates, streams)
Originally from Austin and now based out of Philadelphia, Literature make sparkling, speedy janglepop that is likely to appeal to fans of Pains of Being Pure at Heart, Felt or The Wedding Present…
The Pains of Being Pure at Heart list 2012 faves (NYC show is this week); Kip Berman throwing "Rough Smooch" party
TPOBPAH @ Summerstage 7/7/2012 (more by Chris La Putt)
While The Pains of Being Pure at Heart didn’t release an album this year, they have stayed busy touring on the heels of last year’s terrific Belong…
pics from the Esme benefit show @ Club 1808 (Literature & Quin Galavis); video of the Esme Fan Club Band
On 1/13, a benefit show was held for Esme Barrera at Club 1808 (one day after a Scoot Inn benefit show). There was food, self-defense demonstrations, t-shirt making, and a lot of performances…
advanced tickets on sale for the Esme benefits @ Beerland (TWO of them, both with Ted Leo)
Remember that benefit happening for Esme Barrera at Beerland on 1/28? Well there are actually two – a day show, and a night show. They each have different lineups, but Ted Leo (solo) is playing both…
Morrissey in "high demand" - will tour again in 2008
Morrissey’s band dressed down for Halloween – Oct 31, 2007 (CRED)
I have nothing but love for Morrissey. That said, this quote is kind of funny…
the week in Dance w/ David Bruno (03/02/07)
DOWNLOAD: Derrick May – Strings of Life (MP3)
Derrick May is one of Techno’s earliest pioneers. He and his Detroit neighborhood friends Kevin Saunderson and Juan Atkins comprise the “The Belleville Three“, and have been largely credited with morphing the experimental late-disco sounds of the early 80s into the stark Techno (with a capital T) that gave birth to the hundreds of subgenres of dance music that exist today…
