Memory Tapes

Tonight’s NYC-area shows include Wolf Parade, Patti Smith, Parquet Courts, Louis CK, Bad Boy Family reunion, Sam Beam & Jesca Hoop, Wesley Stace’s Cabinet of Wonders (with Bridget St John, Ted Leo, and more), H09909, Allo Darlin’, Weekend Nachos, and more.

Karneef is a fixture of the Montreal music scene, having brought his multi-instrumentalist skills to Cadence Weapon, Pat Jordache and Sean Nicolas Savage. He’s currently drumming in Doldrums. He makes his own music as well, an appealingly bonkers strain of hyperactive beat-sliced funk, that owes a little to Prince, Kool Keith, Aphex Twin, Max Tundra […]

Chillwaver Memory Tapes hasn’t released music or toured since 2013, but he’ll change that this year. Next week (3/31), he’ll put out the “Fallout” / “House On Fire” single via Carpark, and the a-side of that is streamable …

Carpark Records, home of Toro Y Moi, Speedy Ortiz, TEEN, Young Magic, and many more, is celebrating its 16th anniversary this year which means it’s old enough to drive…

Sleep Over at Austin Psych Fest 2012 (more by Tim Griffin) Sleep Over is going on a tour with Memory Tapes which hits NYC for a previously mentioned show on April 14 at Mercury Lou…

Tickets for the Atoms For Peace show at Barclays Center go on Live Nation/LN Mobile App presale today at 10 AM (password is “swoon”). General on-sale starts Saturday (3/23) at n…

DOWNLOAD: TEEN – Ambient (MP3) TEEN @ Webster Hall, Sept. 2012 (more by Amanda Hatfield) Brooklyn’s TEEN are going on the road this month, and part of that trip will be spent opening on Memory Tapes’ tour, including the previously-announced Glasslands show on February 6 to which tickets are still available…

Lasers and Fast and Shit @ Lincoln Hall, April 2012 (more by James Richards IV) today in Chicago * The Wailers @ Old Town School of Folk Music * Buddy Guy, Bryan Lee, Matt Hendricks @ Legends * Deanna Devore, Loneliest Monk, Leslie Hunt @ Schubas * Radar Eyes, Speck Mountain, Circuit Des Yeux @ Lincoln Hall * Mykki Blanco, Supreme Cuts (DJ set), Teen Witch @ Beauty Bar * Victor Villarreal, Zeus, Jr…

The Allman Brothers are playing ten shows at Beacon Theatre between March 1 to March 16. Tickets for all ten nights are on Fan Club presale now, go on AmEx presale today at noon, and general sale starts January 11 at 10…

I’ve always explained Memory Tapes as pop music as field recordings. I decided to showcase a kind of chaotic reaching. I don’t think the record is flat-out shooting in all directions though, because I kept trying to rein it in as much as I embraced it…