Purity Ring

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Purity Ring brought their North American tour with Young Magic to NYC for two sold Webster Hall shows this past weekend (Friday and Saturday )…

Hard to believe, but our BrooklynVegan “Blog Radio” show has been airing weekly on satellite radio for over 6.5 years. It started on Sirius which then merged with XM and became Siriu…

Today Pitchfork posted the first half (well, first 30 albums) of their Top 50 Albums of 2012 list. There are some surprises on it, like Peaking Lights and Sharon Van Etten, who seemed more likely to end up on their Honorable Mentions list due to their relatively lower scores and the fact that most of the albums on this list were awarded Best New Music throughout the y…

Pitchfork just posted their much anticipated list of the top 100 tracks of 2012. The #1 slot went to… Grimes! Whether you thought the whole of her album Visions was good or not, it was hard to deny the charms of “Oblivion…

Guns N Roses at Webster Hall Photographer Ryan Muir is the latest of our uber-talented contributors to drop off his favorite photos that he took in 2012, leaving us with shots of Guns n Roses, The Hives, Purity Ring and much more…

Purity Ring at Pop Montreal 2012 (more by Dominick Mastrangelo) Purity Ring‘s debut album Shrines has been a mainstay on Best of 2012 lists, from NME and SPIN to personal lists from Freelance Whales and Bowery Presents’ Josh Moore…

Grimes @ Music Hall of Williamsburg (more by Amanda Hatfield) Josh Moore, talent buyer at Bowery Presents, is in charge of booking shows at Music Hall of Williamsburg, but you’ll also find gigs he booked at places like Brooklyn Bowl, Webster Hall and Terminal 5…

Freelance Whales @ Webster Hall, 11/7/2012 (more by Sarah Gainer) Winsome indie outfit Freelance Whales released their latest album, Diluvia, back in October and were just on NPR’s World Cafe for a chat about the album and live session as well…

“Here’s a riddle: Grimes + LDR = the #1 and #2 most-blogged artists of 2012. Grimes LP on tons of year-end blogger lists. Why not LDR?” – Dev Sherlock Hype Machine, which compiles data from countless music blogs, posted the Top 50 Most Blogged About Artists, complete with pretty pictures (like the one of the #1 artist above), and ways to listen to those artists…