Kevin Barker

Where did the summer go? Wanna see some live music in NYC this Labor Day Weekend? We have some suggestions.

The Strokes (fan) @ SXSW (more by Dominick Mastrangelo)”The Strokes‘ guitarist Albert Hammond, Jr. has opened up about the drug rehab treatment he received while the band recorded their new album ‘Angles’…

DOWNLOAD: Antony – Thank You For Your Love (MP3) Antony and the Johnsons will release their five track EP ‘Thank You For Your Love’ on August 30th via Rough Trade…

DOWNLOAD: Unrest – Cherry Cherry (MP3) DOWNLOAD: Versus – Deseret (MP3) DOWNLOAD: The Rondelles – Please Shut Up (MP3) DOWNLOAD: Bossanova – Calvary (MP3) Teen Beat Records is celebrating its 26th year of existence and in celebration, label founder Mark Robinson is getting the old band back together — Unrest — for a reunion tour, their first in 15 years…

DOWNLOAD: The Yummy Fur – Policeman (MP3) DOWNLOAD: Big Troubles – Freudian Slips (MP3) DOWNLOAD: Adam Green – What Makes Him Act So Bad (MP3) DOWNLOAD: Total Slacker – Demos (mediafire zip) There’s a lot of great shows this weekend, but top of the list for me is Scottish cult indie rockers The Yummy Fur who have reformed to play a few shows surrounding a new best-of compilation, titled Piggy Wings, due out sometime soon on What’s Your Rupture…

DM Stith plays The Stone on X-Mas… pictured @ 92YTribeca in October (more by Vincent Cornelli) The Stone has a great lineup of innovative pop-based acts scheduled for this December…

Four distinctly non-metal acts came together to celebrate the upcoming release of Until The Light Takes Us, a much-anticipated documentary on the Norwegian Black Metal scene written and directed by Brooklynites Aaron Aites and Audery Ewell…

A pale and heavily photoshopped David Pajo returns from church As previously discussed, Until The Light Takes Us is the much talked about documentary chronicling the Norwegian Black Metal scene, which after months of anticipation, is FINALLY getting a theatrical release in NYC on Dec 4th (you can catch it at Cinema Village)…

Denver Post: What have you learned from playing in groups like the Shins, Vetiver and Califone over the years? Eric D Johnson: It’s sort of intangible…

DOWNLOAD: Fruit Bats – My Unusual Friend (new MP3) Fruit Bats, the other project of Eric Johnson of The Shins, will be release its fourth album, The Ruminant Band, on August 4th on Sub Pop…