Laura Gibson

Laura Gibson is following 2012’s La Grande with her new album Empire Builder this Friday (4/1) via Barsuk (pre-order). The album is named after the Amtrak route Laura took in 2014 when she moved from Portland, OR to NYC, where she sadly was living in the East Village building that collapse after a gas explosion last year. After losing her home…

Former Pedro the Lion frontman David Bazan will follow 2011’s Strange Negotations with his next album, Blanco, on May 13 via Barsuk. He’s also going on tour.

Like last year, Brooklyn venue Music Hall of Williamsburg will host a Planned Parenthood benefit on Valentine’s Day (2/14). It’s once again a great lineup, this time including Mac DeMarco, Kevin Morby, Kid Congo, Delicate Steve, Cymbals Eat Guitars singer Joseph D’Agostino, Saint Rich, Cassie Ramone, Mutual Benefit, Laura Gibson, Mark Eitzel, Marlon Williams, The Mystery Lights, No Eagles, DJ Jonathan Tou…

You can browse our full NYC show calendar for all of tonight’s shows, but here are some highlights… Buzzcocks, Residuels, Otherworldly Things @ Irving Plaza One of the OG UK punk bands, Buzzcocks had pop smarts from the get-go with a string of classic singles…

Seattle label Barsuk began its life as a way for This Busy Monster to put out their 7″ singles, but began in earnest in 1998 with the release of Death Cab for Cutie‘s Something About Airplanes…

Laura Gibson @ Mercury Lounge in January (NYC) (more by Jessica Amaya) Singer-songwriter Laura Gibson welcomed her great new album, La Grande, in late January via Barsuk Records…

It’s been exactly one week since Laura Gibson teamed with Alexa Wilding to play Mercury Lounge (on 1/30) and two weeks since Gibson’s WFMU appearance (stream it)…

Laura Gibson @ Mercury Lounge in NYC (more by Jessica Amaya) Oregonian songwriter & multi-instrumentalist Laura Gibson, who recently started her tour in New York , is playing Mohawk on Sunday (2/12)…

Though we missed Laura Gibson‘s tour-kickoff at Other Music last week, I realized we had this unposted set of pictures from her May show at the Rock Shop…

DOWNLOAD: Laura Gibson – La Grande (MP3) Laura Gibson‘s latest, La Grande, is out this week via Barsuk. The album, her third, also saw her in the producer’s chair…