The Smith Westerns
WAVVES vs Black Lips (round whatever) (NYC Monday) (and other tour dates)
I realize the real feud is long over, but I still couldn’t help but notice that two of Monday night’s show options are WAVVES @ Bowery Ballroom (tickets still available) and The Black Lips on a Rocks Off Cruise (tickets still available)…
WAVVES are playing Madison Square Garden!
WAVVES @ the Meatlocker (more by Brian Kip)
Wavves has been added as opener of the Dirty Projectors / Phoenix show at Madison Square Garden…
Modest Mouse playing Williamsburg Waterfront, the Pitchfork Festival (updated full lineup) & other tour dates
Modest Mouse @ Terminal 5 in March 2009 (more by Chris La Putt)
Modest Mouse will join Faith No More and Nas & Damian Marley (tickets) as one of the acts set to play at Williamsburg Waterfront in Brooklyn this summer…
cops shut down Market Hotel, So Cow here, upcoming Babies gigs, Wetdog, Titus Andronicus school shows & other dates
“Market hotel busted by twenty cops!” – The Smith Westerns
Saturday night’s Smith Westerns show at Market Hotel got cut short thanks to a group of cops that showed and told everyone to leave (possibly due to a noise complaint, possibly due to “business inspection”, maybe because The Smith Westerns were peeing all over the place, or possibly just because the cops felt like shutting it down)…
Beaters, Nodzzz, Best Coast, Ash, Abe Vigoda, Dom, Dum Dum Girls, Golden Girls, Soft Pack & more in This Week in Indie
DOWNLOAD: Beaters – Fishage (MP3)
DOWNLOAD: Nodzzz – True to Life (MP3)
DOWNLOAD: Dom – Jesus (MP3)
DOWNLOAD: Golden Girls – Newports (MP3)
The Soft Pack @ Cake shop in Feb (more by Gabi Porter)
The Soft Pack are here again, the first real shows in town they’ve played since releasing their debut album on Kemado: tonight (3/31) at Maxwell’s, tomorrow (4/1) at Mercury Lounge, and Saturday (4/3) at Music Hall of Williamsburg…
Acrylics played SXSW (pics), play Glasslands w/ Lissie Trullie, Bear Hands, Holy Ghost! & others tonight + other dates
Spinner: You had an EP out in October, produced by Grizzly Bear’s Chris Taylor. How did you team up with him?
Acrylics: Chris Taylor saw us play some shows, and we had some friends in common…
Pitchfork Festival updates lineup (Broken Social Scene, Jon Spencer, Panda Bear, Girls, El-P & more)
The Pitchfork Music Festival celebrates its 5th anniversary this year at Union Park in Chicago. It runs from Friday July 16th – Sunday July 18th…
Girls touring w/ Dum Dum Girls & the Smith Westerns & True Panther signees Magic Kids - 2010 dates
Girls @ Bowery Ballroom in Nov (more by Vincent Cornelli)
San Francisco’s Girls are currently on the road with their friends the Smith Westerns and Magic Kids, the many-membered pop group from Memphis who played NYC last July and whose debut LP, it was just announced, comes out later this year on True Panther Sounds (which is now part of Matador and also the label that put out the Girls record)…
The Smith Westerns @ Pianos in NYC (BV CMJ) - pics
Happy Holidays! I take on more than I can handle. That results in a lot of unposted content. In the name of catching up, while also taking it easy during this final week of the year, here’s some of that lost material…
Girls & Real Estate played Bowery Ballroom (pics)
“Smith westerns just pissed all over our backstage floor.” – Girls
The second NYC-area stop on the Girls/Real Estate tour, after the Nov…
