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Waking Windows 2017: lineup and tickets for Vermont & Detroit editions

The Vermont edition includes Real Estate, Dan Deacon, !!! (Chk Chk Chk), Pond, Frankie Cosmos, Big Thief and more; Detroit’s Waking Windows has Car Seat Headrest, Whitney, Priests, Mount Eerie, Julie Byrne, Deradoorian and more.

The Essex Green working on first new LP in 10 years, playing Vermont's Waking Windows fest (line-up)

Former Brooklynites and makers of ’60s-inspired baroque psych pop, The Essex Green, have been, for the most part, in hibernation since 2006’s Merge-released Cannibal Sea…

Delicate Steve playing VT's Waking Windows fest with Titus, King Tuff & more ++ also playing free Moscot show in NYC

Waking Windows Music & Arts Festival happens this weekend (May 1-3) in Winooski, VT, featuring over 100 music acts and comedians at 11 different venues in the city’s downtown area. Ar…

Darren Hayman (Hefner) playing first NYC show in 15 years, with The Smittens and Pale Lights (who have new records)

Darren Hayman UK singer/songwriter Darren Hayman spent much of the ’90s in cult indie band Hefner where his literate takes on romance (and warbly vocal style) played like a Mike Leigh movie…

The Ballet ready new LP, playing free NYC Popfest show

NYC synthpop band The Ballet have been hibernating the last few years, rarely playing live and no recorded material since 2009’s terrific Bear Life…

The Bats, Close Lobsters, The Wolfhounds, The School, Flowers and more playing 2013 NYC Popfest (line-up, tix on sale)

We already knew that The Monochrome Set would be performing at this year’s NYC Popfest (May 30 – June 2) but now the rest of the line-up has been announced and it’s pretty great with appearances from New Zealand Flying Nun legends The Bats, two bands who featured on NME’s legendary C-86 cassette (Scotland’s Close Lobsters and London’s The Wolfhounds), and long-running California band The Orange Peels; plus newer bands like Wales’ The School, UK group Flowers, Hobbes Fanclub and Tigercats, Sweden’s Alpaca Sport and Azur Blue, Norway’s Making Marks, and Spain’s Zipper; and American groups Ringo Deathstarr, Math & Physics Club, Literature, Ski Lodge and more…

NYC PopFest Day 1 & 2 in pics (belated pics)

“The fourth annual NYC Popfest, which ran from Thursday through Sunday , consisted of five showcases featuring more than 30 bands, mostly those that adhered to a few key tenets: summery, lo-fi, melodic, twee, nonconfrontational…

a massive guide to NYC Popfest 2010, lots of MP3s & a chance to win a festival badge

DOWNLOAD: The Wake – Oh Pamela (MP3) DOWNLOAD: Neverever – Blue Jeans (MP3) DOWNLOAD: Neverever – Young and Dumb (MP3) DOWNLOAD: Tender Trap – Girls with Guns (MP3) DOWNLOAD: Allo Darlin – Dreaming (MP3) DOWNLOAD: Allo Darlin’ – My Heart is a Drummer (MP3) DOWNLOAD: Veronica Falls – Found Love in a Graveyard (MP3) DOWNLOAD: Moustache of Insanity – Amazon Wishlist (MP3) DOWNLOAD: Horowitz – Winona (MP3) DOWNLOAD: The Embassy – It Pays to Belong (MP3) DOWNLOAD: Leaving Mornington Crescent – Corners (MP3) DOWNLOAD: Very Truly Yours – I’d Write You a Song (MP3) DOWNLOAD: Pants Yell…

NYC Popfest 2010 lineup announced (Veronica Falls, The Wake, The Tender Trap, BOAT & more)

DOWNLOAD: Veronica Falls – Found Love in a Graveyard (MP3) DOWNLOAD: Allo Darlin’ – My Heart is a Drummer (MP3) DOWNLOAD: BOAT – Lately (MP3) The line-up for the fourth annual NYC Popfest has just been announced, which will happen May 20 – 23 at a variety of venues in Manhattan and Brooklyn…

NYC Popfest (2009) - night 4 pics & video from Cake Shop

NYC Popfest ended last Sunday with a marathon of a show in the basement of Cake Shop on the Lower East Side. We already posted the pictures of The Drums (with a short summary of that day), and you can browse pics from the first three nights of NYC Popfest HERE…
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