Besnard Lakes

Montreal vets The Besnard Lakes will release their fifth album, A Coliseum Complex Museum, next week (1/22) via Jagjaguwar. Core members Jace Lacek and Olga Goreas had the Besnard Lakes sound honed by the release of 2007’s The Besnard Lakes Are The Dark Horse — widescreen rock with stratospheric harmonies, a massive wall of afterburner guitars, and a mastery of dynamics — and have continued to refine it since…

The Besnard Lakes‘ terrific new album, A Coliseum Complex Museum, will be out January 22 via Jagjaguwar. If you haven’t checked out “The Plain Moon” and “Golden Lion” from the LP, you can listen to those below…

Montreal’s Besnard Lakes have shared a second track from their upcoming album A Coliseum Complex Museum. “The Plain Moon” contains many of the signature Besnard elements: a wall of guitars, unearthly harmonies and a general widescreen rock vibe…

Besnard Lakes will release a new album, A Coliseum Complex Museum, on January 22, 2016 via Jagjaguwar. The first single “Golden Lion,” pardon the pun, roars into the night in the band’s signature style — big…

I try not to throw the word “epic” around much as a person who writes about music but that pretty much describes The Besnard Lakes‘ Pop Montreal performance Friday night at Rialto Hall…

Montreal’s The Besnard Lakes have been tapped to open for part of Ride‘s fall tour, starting with two NYC-area shows: September 22 at Irving Plaza (tickets) and September 23 at Stone Pony in Asbury Park, NJ (tickets)…

Chelsea Light Moving @ Maxwell’s (more by PSquared Photography) today in NYC * Baby Soda @ Barbes * Howard Fishman @ Barbes * Matt Shipp Trio @ The Stone * Hulk Hogan @ Beacon Theatre * The Black Crowes @ Terminal 5 * Memoryy, Lazyeyes @ Glasslands * Jessie Ware, MS MR @ Webster Hall * Alicia Keys, Miguel @ Barclays Center * Hard Mix, Princely DJs @ Glasslands * Phoenix @ Music Hall of Williamsburg * Stranger Wanted with Shannon O’ Neill @ UCB * The Greyboy Allstars, DJ Logic @Brooklyn Bowl * Lucius, You Won’t, Backwords @ Knitting Factory * GRIZ, Manic Focus, Alex English @ Webster Hall * Glass Ghost, Magmana, Katie Mullins @ 92YTribeca * Family Of The Year, The Mowgli’s @ Mercury Lounge * Summer People, Porches, Family Curse @ Union Pool * Bright Light Bright Light My Midnight Heart @ Joe’s Pub * Todd Barry, Keith Robinson, Jay Oakerson @ The Stand * Manic Sheep, Space Meow, Kollagemontage @ XPO 929 * FORMA, Hex Breaker, Phil Cote, Pam Finch @ Silent Barn * Mike Simonetti (DJ Set), Gavin Russon (DJ Set) @ Le Bain * Frankie Knuckles, Chris Love & AB Logic @ Cameo Gallery * Mykki Blanco, Kool A.D. …

Tamaryn is DJing at New York’s Museum of Modern Art on Sunday evening (4/7) as part of a PopRally event called “Abstract Currents.” Against projections of one-minute videos submitted by the public, Tamryn will provide a “hypnotic soundtrack to the collectively built abstract videoscape…

Austin Psych Fest 2013 Austin Psych Fest is less than a month away (April 26 to 28), and the full line up is out (on the flyer above and listed below) as are the breakdowns by day…

Sailor Jerry, who we were sad to be without in 2013 (they sponsored ‘Hotel Vegan’ at SXSW 2012), took over the Gypsy Lounge for SXSW 2013 with different parties and free tattoos every day including Thursday, March 14th which looked like this:12 NOON – doors 12:00 – Al Lover 12:45 – Hellshovel 01:30 – Acid Baby Jesus 02:15 – Mood Rings 03:00 – Chris Cohen 03:45 – Sinkane 04:30 – Jacco Gardner 05:15 – Jacuzzi Boys 06:00 – Shannon & The Clams 06:45 – Besnard LakesHere are some pictures from the shindig, though not of all the bands listed…