Mercury Girls

Philadelphia’s Mercury Girls have a new single, “Ariana,” which will be out May 20 via Slumberland. Singer Sarah Schimineck tells us, “’Ariana,’ like many of our songs, attempts to take the reigns of my own nostalgia. If I can conjure up some phantom longing and make it real, then maybe something will happen. Anything.” Musically, […]

UK band Flowers released their new album, Everybody’s Dying to Meet You, back in February via Kanine/Fortuna Pop. It’s a little fuzzier than their debut while still retaining their minimal, heavenly sound. (Rachel Kenedy’s gossamer voice soars as always.) If you haven’t checked that out, you can stream the whole LP below. The band have […]

LP #2 for this ethereal UK band drops in June, listen to the lovely “Island” right now. They’ll be playing one of BrooklynVegan’s SXSW day parties, along with many other shows in Austin, and NYC after the fest.

This year marks the 10th edition of NYC Popfest which will happen May 19 – 22 at venues in Manhattan and Brooklyn. The lineup was just announced and the Popfest folks have really outdone themselves for this benchmarck year, with performances, Trash Can Sinatras, Allo’ Darlin, ’80s-era Factory Records band The Railway Children, Sarah Records labelmates Secret Shine, , and Even As We Speak, plus The Chesterfields, The Primitives, Alpaca Sports, Mercury Girls, The Hermit Crabs, Spook School, the live debut of Lake Ruth, and more…

Philadelphia’s Mercury Girls won the battle over use of their name (Toronto’s Mercury Girls are now called Pavilion). With that settled, look for a 7″ out early next year on venerable indiepop label Slumberland…

Fucked Up are going on a “temporary hiatus” right now, but members are staying busy with other projects. Ben Cook released a new album with Young Guv and reignited his old hardcore band No Warning…

Tickets for the Jeff Lynne’s ELO show at Irving Plaza go on sale at 10 AM. Tickets to see Anthrax with Lamb of God at Hammerstein Ballroom go on s…

If you have the advantage of being free in the afternoons during CMJ week, day parties offer an easy way to catch many of the most talked about bands at the fest, usually for free with maybe some free drinks/food too…

Philadelphia’s Mercury Girls played CMJ just a bit ago at the Kanine / Dr. Martens day party at Pianos. It was their only show of the fest but you can get a taste of what they sound like, as the band (which includes Literature’s Kevin Attics and Little Big League’s Kevin O’Halloran) recently went into the studio and recorded their set live to tape…

We’ve done a few of these “Band Vs. Band” posts over the years, but maybe never one where both bands have the exact same names, similar(ish) sounds, formation dates, and factoids…