Ryan Muir

Annie Clark (aka St. Vincent) rocked BAM’s Howard Gilman Opera House at BAM’s all-night party The Takeover night. While it was a little weird to see a rock show at a sit-down theater, her music was suited to the venue…

DOWNLOAD: Sigur Ros – gobbledigook (instrumental) (MP3) “It was transcendent. I have never seen a show this good – they played a gtr with a saw and played the same measure 30 times in a row, getting gradually louder until they started singing in this made up language, really high & slightly off key – then they did it again, except this time no made up language…

Just in time for the Olof/Sam/Kria show in a church tonight (Sept 16), here are the pictures from last week’s (le) poisson rouge show that Deerhunter also played (if you count it all as one show with a late intermission) (Sept 9)…

DOWNLOAD: Amazing Baby – Head Dress (MP3) DOWNLOAD: Amazing Baby – Infiniate Fucking Crosses EP (ZIP file) FADER: What’s going on right now with you guys…

photos by Ryan Muir

Last night was a special night of music at Le Poisson Rouge in NYC (September 9). Unfortunately I missed the early show where Skuli Sverrisson and Olof Arnalds each performed a full album and were joined by guests such as Nico Muhly and Laurie Anderson whose husband Deerhunter’s Bradford Cox later said he just missed meeting (and getting an autograph from) in the back room…

Lykke Li @ (le) poisson rouge (more by Ryan Muir) Oct 21 – Lykke Li, Friendly Fires, Miles Benjamin Anthony Robinson (tix) Oct 22 – ? Oct 23 – …

1349 is a black metal band hailing from Oslo, Norway. The band’s music is purposely similar in style and construction to that of bands from the Second Wave of Norwegian black metal of the early 1990s, and does not incorporate synthesisers…

Saturday (August 30, 2008) was a long day. After four bands in a row at McCarren Pool, (Ryan and) I considered going to watch some bands perform ’round robin’, but the idea of a hot Market Hotel didn’t seem that appealing…

Yard , Seaport There have been no shortage of Onedia shows this summer. One of them took place back in July at the Yard. Another was just this past Friday at South Street Seaport…