Big Eyes

The Fest also added Lemuria, Mean Jeans, Somos, Vacation, Iron Chic, Slingshot Dakota, PUP, RVIVR, Timeshares, Frameworks, Lifted Bells, Antarctigo Vespucci, Ian Graham, Katie Ellen, Roger Harvey, Museum Mouth, Hiccup, Amanda X, Die Choking, Sonic Avenues, Mac Sabbath, Creepoid, Sports and mannnnnny more.

It includes Planes Mistaken For Stars, Propagandhi, Small Brown Bike, Samiam, Dead To Me, Strike Anywhere, Knapsack, Tim Barry, Braid, Latterman (who are reunited again), The Menzingers, AJJ, War On Women, Underground Railroad to Candyland, Toys That Kill, United Nations, Iron Reagan, Jeff Rosenstock, Night Birds, and many more.

Not to mention Phil Lesh, Tiny Moving Parts, Steven Tyler, Mitski, Minor Victories, Leftover Crack, Inter Arma, Hamilton Leithauser, Pete Silberman, and even more NYC shows on sale today.

The festival aims to be “held in direct opposition to the apolitical sludge that has come to pass as ‘indie’ and that has nothing to do with operating independently.” They add, “There will be no sponsors, no backdoor advertising via branded content, or other base money-making schemes.”

Tickets for The Residents show at Gramercy Theatre go on Live Nation/Music Geeks presale (password: musicgeeks) today at 10 AM. Tickets for The Zombies’ shows at Bears Den, Wellmont Theatre, NYCB Theatre, and Count Basie Theatre go on fan club presale to…

As far as modern punk bands in the catchy, stripped-down, post-Ramones fashion go, Big Eyes are one of the best (and most underrated). Not just ’cause they’ve got the tunes, but also because if you’ve seen them live you know they’re one of the tightest bands doing this kind of th…

Dillinger Four don’t play shows very often these days and they haven’t played NYC in many years, but that finally changed over the weekend when their run of dates with Night Birds, Iron Chic (with the singer of Broadcaster filling in on guitar) and Big Eyes came to Brooklyn for sold-out shows on Saturday (10/10) at Music Hall of Williamsburg and Sunday (10/11) at Saint…

Cold Beat have just released the video for “Cracks,” arguably the highlight of their terrific new album Into the Air. Much like the song itself, it could’ve been from the early ’80s, using vector graphics (think Tempest or TRON) and old-school video effects…

Riis Park Beach Bazaar has been hosting free shows right on the water at Rockaway Beach every weekend all summer, and they’ll continue to do so through the end of Septem…

The latest BrooklynVegan Red Bull Sound Select show happened Friday night at Asbury Park’s Stone Pony (9/4).