Steve Sobs

Notable Releases of the Week (7/7)

This week’s Notable Releases include the devastating third album from New York singer/songwriter Julie Byrne, long-awaited comebacks from PJ Harvey and ANOHNI and the Johnsons, and more…

What's going on Saturday? (Royal Trux, Todd Rundgren, The Dickies, The Slackers, Expert Alterations, Matmos & more)

You can browse our full NYC show calendar for all of tonight’s shows, but here are some highlights… Royal Trux, Blues Control, IUD, Lexie Mountain Boys @ Webster Hall As Royal Trux, Neil Hagerty and Jennifer Herrema made music that sounded like the rock n’ roll equivilent of the final hour of a three-day very hedonistic pa…

Advance Base released 'Nephew in the Wild,' touring, playing NYC shows w/ Julie Byrne, Small Wonder, more (dates)

Advance Base, the current project of former Casiotone for the Painfully Alone main man Owen Ashworth, released its second album, Nephew in the Wild, in August…

What's going on Sunday? (Zola Jesus, Fleetwood Mac, Sufjan, They Might Be Giants, Wildhoney, Smoke DZA & more)

You can browse our full NYC show calendar for all of tonight’s shows, but here are some highlights…

iLoveMakonnen's band Phantom Posse released an album (stream, download), playing Silent Barn tonight

Phantom Posse is the NYC collective led by Eric Littmann, aka Steve Sobs, which includes a handful of local musicians, one of which is the now-famous iLoveMakonnen…

Julie Byrne released an LP, touring, playing NYC with Sea Oleena, Foxes in Fiction, Small Wonder, more (dates, stream)

Seattle’s Julie Byrne put out her debut album, Rooms With Walls and Windows, earlier this year (via Orindal), which followed a couple EPs and is a fantastic record of lo-fi folk…

Small Wonder released an album (stream it), playing shows

Small Wonder is the project of Brooklyn’s Henry Crawford, who released his new album, Wendy, earlier this year and puts it on cassette on May 6 via Father/Daughter Records (the label that just put out the Faux Real comp on RSD)…