Drawing Boards

The Garden Bar, which is set up on Fulton Street at Front St, will host free live music all summer long on Thursdays and Saturdays. Acts include Breanna Barbara, Showtime Goma, Annie Hart, Calvin Love and more.

The record’s sound should be recognizable to any ARS fan — warm, delicately layered synthpop — but Annie brings a directness, lyrically, that we haven’t heard before.

The December 2 opening night features a Q&A with Matt Conboy and a free afterparty at the Alamo’s House of Wax bar.

Tonight’s NYC shows include Modern Baseball/Joyce Manor/Thin Lips, Downtown Boys, Pissed Jeans/Lydia Lunch, Sting/Peter Gabriel, Ladyhawke, Soul Asylum/English Beat, Natural Child, and more.

Outer Spaces, the current band of Cara Beth Satalino (ex-Witches), release their debut album A Shedding Snake today on Don Giovanni. Like early EPs and singles hinted, it’s poppy/punky/folky indie rock that fans of the Hop Along/Waxahatchee crowd or You Are Free-era Cat Power should probably give a spin. We’ve got the premiere of the […]

Todd Goldstein will release his third album as ARMS, titled Patterns, later this spring via Paper Garden Records. The first single from the album is “Keep it Light,” a nicely chugging indie rock nugget that Goldstein says is “an open letter to the voices in my head that delight in telling me to tone it […]

CFM, the solo project of Ty Segal/Mikal Cronin cohort Charles Moothart, has shared “Purple Spine” of his forthcoming album Still Life of Citrus and Slime…

You can browse our full NYC show calendar for all of tonight’s shows, but here are some highlights… Yo La Tengo, Alvin Lucier @ Merkin Concert Hall Part of the Ecstatic Music Festival, this show features Hoboken’s finest paying tribute to composer Alvin Lucier…

Drawing Boards are a new band featuring longtime members of the Brooklyn music scene. It was started as a project between Doug Marvin (Dirty on Purpose) and Aaron Pfannebecker (Sisters)…

Cosmicide, the current musical project from onetime Secret Machines frontman Brandon Curtis, have an upcoming residency at Pianos every Thursday in February:February 4 with Exiles, Ohnomoon, Sleepy Ha Has, and Queen of Jeans February 11 with Hellbirds, New Myths, Secret Servants, and Everest Cale February 18 with Heaven, The Vandelles, Drawing Boards and Willows February 25 with Lip Talk, Dead Leaf Echo, Arc Waves and Crown the InvisibleTickets for all four residency shows are on sale now…