Antietam

Tonight’s NYC shows include Run the Jewels, Lauryn Hill, Afropunk at The Apollo, Hamilton Leithauser/Lucy Dacus, Indie Pop Prom, and more.

“So with an eye towards the ideal politics of the hopefully-not-distant future (i.e. as a compromise), this is an instrumental version of the song I happen to be working on right now, it’s the last one still under construction and yes, that means the album is only finishing now.” – Charles Bissell

Tonight’s NYC shows include Land of Talk/Little Scream, Mac DeMarco, Antietam, Mark Pritchard, Daniel Romano, Kaitlyn Aurelia Smith and more.

You can browse our full NYC show calendar for all of tonight’s shows, but here are some highlights… Spraynard, Dogs on Acid, Caves, Marge @ Shea Stadium Jade Tree is fully back in action and two of their more recent signees, Spraynard and Dogs On Acid (ex-Algernon Cadwallader, Snowing), play NYC together tonight…

Chicago indie rock survivors Eleventh Dream Day will release their 13th album, Works For Tomorrow, on July 24th via Thrill Jockey. While they haven’t shared a song from it yet, you can check out the cover art and tracklist below…

I’ll admit that it was somewhat surreal to see the three members of Yo La Tengo enter tiny basement stage at Cake Shop. We’ve seen hundreds of bands on this stage, but perhaps never one of the kind of legendary status that YLT possesses…

enter to win tickets to see Pixies & TV on the Radio in NJ, at the end of this post… Memorial Day Weekend is this weekend and, as usual, there’s no lack of things for music fans to…

More of Cake Shop’s 10th anniversary “super shows” have been announced. Next Friday (5/22) it’ll be Condo Fucks (aka Yo La Tengo in cover band mode), plus a couple more veteran NY-area indie rock acts, Antietam and Speed the Plough (which counts Feelies drummer Stanley Demeski as a member)…

Then came the guests of honor: guitarist Ira Kaplan, drummer Georgia Hubley, and bassist James McNew. They began with “Ohm,” off of their 2013 record, Fade…

Yo La Tengo at The Bell House in 2013 (more by PSquared) Though Yo La Tengo can’t do their Hanukkah shows at Maxwell’s anymore (because it’s closed, at least as a venue), they continue to do multi-night runs in the NYC-area around the holiday season…