MPHO

Today’s NYC-area shows include Dropkick Murphys and Rancid, ESG, Ghostface Killah, Stetsasonic and Friends, HR of Bad Brains, For Your Health, and more

It’s a stacked Saturday in NYC: White Lung, Woods/Ultimate Painting, Crystal Castles, Ivan Julian Benefit, Ought/Priests, DJ Windows 98, and lots more show options.

You can browse our full NYC show calendar for all of tonight’s shows, but here are some highlights… She-Devils @ Baby’s All Right Having just opened last night for Majical Clouds, fellow Montreal duo She-Devils (whose music is sample based, but not exactly dancepop) play their own show toni…

Annie Hart of Au Revoir Simone has been quietly releasing music on her own via her SoundCloud page over the last year or so. While not terribly different than the synthpop that ARS make and still with a strong ear for melody, her solo songs have their own idiosyncrasies and her latest, “Hard to Be Still,” is probably the closest she’s ever come to “rock…

You can browse our full NYC show calendar for all of tonight’s shows, but here are some highlights… Jeff Lynne’s ELO @ Irving Plaza With the first ELO album in 15 years just out, Jeff Lynne is officially back in the Orchestra …

You can browse our full NYC show calendar for all of tonight’s shows, but here are some highlights…

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…

You can browse our full NYC show calendar for all of tonight’s shows, but here are some highlights… Ghostface Killah & GZA, Joey Bada$$, DJ Envy @ House of Vans Wu-Tang members Ghostface Killah and GZA are headlining this free show with a collaborative set, and opening is a much newer New York rapper who owes much to the era Wu came from, Joey Bada$$…

Elle le fantôme (aka Brooklyn resident Tyler Elizabeth) makes spare synthpop, the kind of miniature rainy day symphonies that are both featherlight and gloomy…

Cold Beat, the newish band from Grass Widow’s Hannah Lew, release their second album, Into the Air, on Friday (9/4) and it’s a killer mix of post-punk influences, from early ’80s scratchy UK indiepop to minimal wave synth and more aggressive guitar blasts…