Plus Minus
tix on sale: Steely Dan, Leon Bridges, Nils Frahm, Robyn Hitchcock and more
Plus: Drugdealer, Rise Against/AFI/Anti-Flag, Everclear/Marcy Playground/Local H, Robyn Hitchcock, Superchunk, The Posies, Bongripper, Le Poisson Rouge’s LPR X series, Sam Evian, Martha Wainwright, Plus Minus, and more tickets on sale.
tix on sale: Slowdive, Pixies, Third Eye Blind/Silversun Pickups, Ty Segall & more
More NYC shows on sale today include Jonathan Richman, The Feelies, The LOX, Mates of State, +/-, Baths, Coheed & Cambria, Portugal. The Man, Shura, Nao, Tycho, and Piebald.
What's going on Friday? (Murder City Devils, Waxahatchee, Market Hotel, Horrendous, SAVAK, Metro Boomin, more)
You can browse our full NYC show calendar for all of tonight’s shows, but here are some highlights…
Murder City Devils, Deep Creep @ Webster Hall
Seattle’s eccentric garage punks Murder City Devils have been a fully functioning band again for a while …
pre-Versus band Flower added to Tsurphu Goshir Dharma Center benefit at Cake Shop (+/- and more)
Before Versus, brothers Richard and Ed Baluyut were in NYC band Flower who put out two albums and an EP’s worth of moody indie rock during the second half of the 1980s…
Plus/Minus playing Tsurphu Goshir Dharma Center benefit
2000s-era indie rockers +/- (Plus/Minus) reactivated this year with a new album, Jumping The Tracks, which was their first since 2008 and pretty in line with their earlier material (in a good way)…
'+/- (Plus/Minus) releasing a new LP, playing live (streams)
Brooklyn indie rockers +/- (aka Plus/Minus), who share members with the recently active-again Versus, are becoming active again themselves…
The Cribs, BOAT, Slumberland, Pants Yell!, GhostDigital, Versus, Music For 16 Futurists & more in This Week in Indie
DOWNLOAD: The Cribs – We Were Aborted (MP3)
DOWNLOAD: BOAT – Prince of Tacoma (MP3)
DOWNLOAD: BOAT – We’ve Been Friends Since 1989 (MP3)
DOWNLOAD: BOAT – Lately (MP3)
DOWNLOAD: BOAT – I’m a Donkey for Your Love (MP3)
DOWNLOAD: BOAT – Last Cans of Paint (MP3)
DOWNLOAD: Pants Yell…
Versus playing Seaport & Mercury Lounge with Plus/Minus
Indie rock nostalgia continues this summer at South Street Seaport. The band Versus have been added to the free show schedule that already includes Polvo and Superchunk (who Versus are opening for on July 17th)…
Quasi, Vetiver, Crystal Stilts, Marnie Stern, +/-, Hot Snakes, Sic Alps & more in This Week in Indie
Quasi
This time of year is usually pretty slow, show-wise, but this seems to be an especially-packed week for shows. Here’s some of the stuff I’m considering attending while I procrastinate on holiday gift shopping and doing all my year-end lists over on my own blog…