Final Bloom

Dizzee Rascal, Jon Brion, NYU Strawberry Festival, YACHT, Sheer Mag, Vetiver & more NYC shows tonight.

Brooklyn band Heaven’s Gate are back with their second album, Woman at Night, which was released today (9/25) via Dull Tools. Like on their terrific debut album, the band whip together a variety of of noisy influences into their own whirlwind brand of rock that is aggressive, loud, tuneful, and cathartic…

A full decade of abuse in the ’80s pretty much ruined the saxophone’s rep in pop music. (The nadir was maybe Beach Boys’ 1988 comeback hit “Kokomo…

Joyce Manor at Rough Trade in July (more by Amanda Hatfield) Love Inks at MHOW in 2013 (more by Amanda Hatfield) You can browse our full NYC show calendar for all of tonight’s shows, but here are some highlights…

Will any Australians actually be in Australia the month of September? They all seem to be touring North America in their many indie rock bands, many of whom are playing Gonerfest…

Sunday (7/13) was our party we threw with the good folks at Dull Tools out at Rockaway Beach Surf Club. Fruity drinks were consumed (with specially-made koozies), people danced and hoola-hooped, and four vaguely post-punk style bands of varying specifics played…

We really mean to go to the beach during the summer more than we do, but you get busy living in NYC and sometimes it’s September and you realize you never made it out once…

Parquet Courts will release a new 7″ for Record Store Day with two new songs, “Pilgrims to Nowhere” and “Sunbathing Animal.” You can hear the latter right now — if you can read sheet music and have access to a musical instrument, or know someone who can/does…

Brooklyn’s Future Punx just put out their first 7″ via Dull Tools, and its songs “999” and “Living in a Movie” are two terrific slices of 1980-style synthy new wave…