Mercury Lounge
Summer Camp share new video, touring the US (dates, video)
UK indie pop duo Summer Camp (aka Jeremy Warmsley and Elizabeth Sankey) welcomed their latest and eponymous effort in September of 2013 via Moshi Moshi…
Diddy's all-music cable station REVOLT launching 10/21
Sean “Diddy” Combs is launching his own music television network, REVOLT, later this month. What’s it all about? The “multi-genre, multi-platform music network” will feature “that new shit, the stuff that people are afraid to play,” Diddy says in a new promotional video, and adds,”If you like good music, you finally have a home…
The National played Mercury Lounge (pics & setlist)
After The National played tiny shows at Sycamore and Public Assembly yesterday (5/21) to celebrate the release of their great new record, Trouble Will Find Me, they headed to Mercury Lounge for a third intimate show of the day…
The National played 'Letterman,' playing free show at Public Assembly this afternoon, Mercury Lounge TONIGHT (tickets on sale at noon)
The National in Ithaca (more by PSquared Photography)
The National‘s new album, Trouble Will Find Me, is out today (Pitchfork gave it Best New Music) and the band took a night from their just-started tour to play The Late Show with David Letterman last night…
Kaki King played 2 sets at Mercury Lounge (late show pics)
Kaki King, who just busked in a Subway station last Saturday (4/20) (did anyone see her?) came to her old stomping grounds of Mercury Lounge last night (4/25) for two shows…
Kaki King busking in a Subway station before her Mercury Lounge shows
Kaki King at MoMA in 2011 (more by Amanda Hatfield)
As mentioned, Kaki King is about to go on a short tour that brings her to NYC for two shows (early and late) on April 25 at Mercury Lounge…
Downtown Music Festivals coming to LES in NYC & other cities -- lineup & tix (Black Hippy, Earl Sweatshirt, Purity Ring, Palma Violets & more)
Palma Violets at BV SXSW 2013 day party (more by Amanda Hatfield)
Downtown Records are taking their Downtown Music Festivals to different North American cities this year with a lineup that includes Black Hippy (aka Kendrick Lamar, Schoolboy Q, Ab Soul, and Jay Rock all playing together), Purity Ring, Earl Sweatshirt, Sky Ferreira, DIIV, Palma Violets, Trash Talk, Beach Fossils, Teengirl Fantasy, …
Hanukkah shows in NYC: Golem, Sephardic Music Festival, Menorah Horah! & more
The holiday season is upon us and addition to Yo La Tengo‘s eight-night run of annual Hanukkah shows at Hoboken, NJ venue Maxwell’s (12/8 – 12/15), there are a number of other Hanukkah celebrations, parties, and shows happening in the NYC area this December…
What is & isn't going on Friday? (Andrew Jackson Jihad/Future of the Left moved, Die Antwoord cancelled, Hospitality & Chris Isaak postponed & more)
Future of the Left at HotelVegan in March (more by Tim Griffin)
MS MR at BV-CMJ in October (more by Amanda Hatfield)
Though things are certainly getting a little better, much of NYC is still devastated by Hurricane Sandy (like Staten Island and Coney Island)…
South Street Seaport flooded, looted; Lower East Side venues not likely to have power till the weekend
Lower Manhattan got it pretty good by Sandy, South Street Seaport included. The area was under multiple feet of water. The Seaport Music Festival, who put on the free shows down there, still had their stage set up…
