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The third edition of McGill, NV’s Schellraiser Fest happens May 30-June 1 and also features The Besnard Lakes, Megafauna, No Joy, Corridor, Wild Pink, and more.

Get your cardigans out: NYC Popfest is upon us and here’s an exhaustive guide to the weekend’s goings-on, including The Chills, Trashcan Sinatras, Allo Darlin’, The Railway Children, The Primitives & more.

The Chills will be visiting the East Coast next month to play the closing night of NYC Popfest and that show is now sold out. They’ve just added a second NYC-area show, playing Monday, May 23 at WFMU Monty Hall in Jersey City. Soft Science open the show, and tickets are on sale now. Updated […]

This year marks the 10th edition of NYC Popfest which will happen May 19 – 22 at venues in Manhattan and Brooklyn. The lineup was just announced and the Popfest folks have really outdone themselves for this benchmarck year, with performances, Trash Can Sinatras, Allo’ Darlin, ’80s-era Factory Records band The Railway Children, Sarah Records labelmates Secret Shine, , and Even As We Speak, plus The Chesterfields, The Primitives, Alpaca Sports, Mercury Girls, The Hermit Crabs, Spook School, the live debut of Lake Ruth, and more…

Brooklyn-based indiepop band Pale Lights, which features sometimes Comet Gain member Phil Sutton and Crystal Stilts’ Andy Adler, released a new 7″ titled “Fourteen Stories Tall” at the tail-end of 2014 which is another fine example of the band’s jangly sound (think Lloyd Cole, Felt, Camera Obscura)…