Rob Crows Gloomy Place

James Alex will play a solo acoustic Samsung session in NYC on 4/20 before Beach Slang begin their tour at Music Hall of Williamsburg. Beach Slang are also on the new Nirvana ‘Bleach’ tribute — with Rob Crow’s Gloomy Place, Defeater, Basement, Daughters, Thou, This Will Destroy You, Young Widows, Mean Jeans, The Saddest Landscape and more — which came out on Record Store Day and can now be streamed in full.

Former Pinback frontman Rob Crow’s new band Rob Crow’s Gloomy Place released their excellent debut album You’re Doomed. Be Nice. last month, and they’ve since given the video treatment to its mathy (and sometimes near-metal) opening track “Oh, The Sadmakers.” The video splices footage of the band performing with Rob acting out the sad clown character on the album cover…

Robotic Empire releases the tribute album on Record Store Day, the followup to their In Utero and Nevermind RSD tributes. You can stream the lead single, Circa Survive’s take on “Love Buzz,” now.

Last year, Rob Crow said he was quitting music, putting Pinback on indefinite hiatus, but then he surprisingly quickly returned with a new project called Rob Crow’s Gloomy Place, which will release its debut album You’……

The third episode of BrooklynVegan’s “In Residence” show on Spotify is now live. For this one, BV editors Bill Pearis, Andrew Sacher and site founder Dave play some singles off 2016 records they’re excited for, some Wolf Parade and LCD Soundsystem in anticipation their return, plus music and memories about David Bowie …

Earlier this year, Rob Crow of Pinback and other bands announced that he’d be quitting music (and social media), but it turns out that he couldn’t sta…