Pity Sex

Riot Fest Chicago is currently underway at Chicago’s beautiful Humboldt Park. It kicked off on Friday (9/12) and that first day was plagued by light to heavy rains that pretty much continued from doors until the headliners…

I walked into Webster Hall on Tuesday (8/19) around 7:20, about three quarters of the way through Ovlov’s set, the first set of a four-band bill, and it was packed…

The UK’s Basement ended their 2-year hiatus earlier this year, and have since announced that they’ll put out a new EP, Further Sky, next week (7/29) via Run For Co…

Sounds like show bookers in Detroit are definitely amusing themselves! The Detroit show is September 6th. Most of New Porn’s tour is later in the fall, and with The Pains of Being Pure at Heart…

Last night (6/18), Tigers Jaw and Pity Sex brought their tour to NYC for a sold out show at Music Hall of Williamsburg. Pity Sex played to the largest and wildest crowd I’ve seen them play to in NYC, and it seemed like the band may have agreed with that…

Riot Fest Chicago keeps getting crazier. First they announced their stacked lineup, then revealed that ten of those artists would be performing classic LPs in full, and now they’ve added more bands to the fest including a handful of heavy hitters…

The already-killer Riot Fest Chicago lineup was just expanded to include Primus, Tokyo Police Club, Say Anything, The Hold Steady, Only Crime, Lemuria, Pity Sex, From Indian Lakes, Lucki Eck$, Tiny Moving Parts, The Picturebooks and Survay Says…

NYC-area chiptune band Crying, who put out their Get Olde EP on Double Double Whammy last year, recently announced that they’ve signed to larger label Run For Cover (Modern Baseball, Basement), who say new music is coming soon…

Pity Sex at BV-CMJ 2013 (more by Chris La Putt) As previously discussed, UK post-hardcore band Basement ended their hiatus and will be touring North America this year, which includes a NYC show at the Grand Ballroom in Webster Hall on August 19 (moved from the Marlin Room, which had been moved from the Studio)…

Tickets to see Hannibal Buress at Beat Kitchen are on sale now. Tickets to see Josh Ritter at City Winery Chicago go on sale this Friday (3/28) at noon CST…