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Curtis Harvey got his start playing in bands like ’90s-era slowcore vets Rex (whose Doug Scharin was also in Codeine and June of 44) and folk rock “supergroup” Pullman whose lineup also included Chris Brokaw (Codeine, Come), Doug McCombs (Tortoise, Eleventh Dream Day) and others…

We Were Promised Jetpacks in NYC in Oct (more by Dominick Mastrangelo) We Were Promised Jetpacks toured North America with Fat Cat labelmates Twilight Sad, BrakesBrakesBrakes and Frightened Rabbit in September and October (though FR didn’t play on the leg of the tour that hit NYC)…

words & Tuesday night’s Twilight Sad show was just like Friday night, there was just more if it. There was more space for the sound to fill, more shaved heads, more singing along…

We Were Promised Jetpacks @ Southpaw Friday (more by Dominick Mastrangelo) tonight in NYC * DANCE * Digital Primitives @ Zebulon * The Roots @ Highline Ballroom * Tanya Morgan, Black Sheep @ SOB’s * Tune-Yards, Dragons of Zynth @ Union Hall * An Evening Without Monty Python @ Town Hall * Akiko Yano, Will Lee, Chris Parker @ Joe’s Pub * Lights, Stars of Track & Field @ Mercury Lounge * Wovenhand, White Hills, Silver Summit @ The Bell House * Sufjan Stevens, Cryptacize @ Music Hall of Williamsburg * The Honorary Title, Good Old War, Cory Branan @ Maxwell’s * Lou Barlow & The Missingmen, John de Vries @ Mercury Lounge * Ex-Humans, Human Eye, Liquor Store, VLC, Terrible Twos @ Don Pedro * Bushwick Book Club: A Confederacy of Dunces @ Goodbye Blue Monday * The Toxic Avenger, Mixhell, Franki Chan, Alex English @ Studio at Webster Hall * Darlings, Snakes Say Hiss, Boogie Boarder, Tony Castles @ Le Poisson Rouge * Twilight Sad, BrakesBrakesBrakes, We Were Promised Jetpacks @ Bowery * Steve Martin & The Steep Mountain Rangers, Ralph Stanley & The Clinch Mountain Boys @ Carnegie Hall Lou Barlow & The Missingmen and John de Vries (of Agitpop) play Mercury Lounge, kicking off what looks to be a solid week at the venue…

words & If it was possible The Twilight Sad have gone even darker on their new record Forget The Night Ahead (Fat Cat). Yet what was evident on Friday night at Brooklyn’s Southpaw is their live sound has not suffered as a result…

Micachu & The Shapes @ Cake Shop in March (more by Tim Griffin) Holy Fuck @ MHOW in May (more by Tim Griffin) tonight in NYC * DANCE * Foreigner @ Nokia Theatre * Dam-Funk @ The Guggenheim * NY Burlesque Fest @ The Bell House * Holy Fuck, AutoErotique @ Webster Hall * Andrew W…

DOWNLOAD: The Twilight Sad – Reflection Of The Television (MP3) The Twilight Sad is going on a lengthy fall tour with labelmates (Fat Cat) and countrymen (Scotland) We Were Promised Jetpacks…

DOWNLOAD: The Twilight Sad – Reflection Of The Television (MP3) DOWNLOAD: We Were Promised Jetpacks – Quiet Little Voices (MP3) A trio of Scottish bands, We Were Promised Jetpacks, The Twilight Sad and Frightened Rabbit, are touring parts of North America this September — they’ll stick to the West Coast and the South, starting out at Monolith Festival in Colorado on September 12th and 13th…

The line to Bonnaroo, with a rumored wait of up to 5 hours (Cody Gray) Concertgoers are filing in to the eighth annual Bonnaroo Festival in Manchester, TN, which kicks off tonight (June 11th) and runs till Sunday, June 14th…