Union Hall

Union Hall , Mercury Lounge , Hockey played four NYC shows last week. After a negative first impression, I thought maybe I would give them a chance live, but I never made it out…

AHAAH @ Mercury Lounge – Jan 10, 2009 (more by Natasha Ryan)A Hawk And A Hacksaw plays the grand opening party at the new Lomography Gallery Store in Manhattan this Monday 26 January (approx 9pm)…

Ida Maria @ Union Hall (more by Kyle Dean Reinford) Ida Maria will be touring North America with fellow Europeans Glasvegas in the Spring (basically from probably-SXSW to probably-Coachella)…

words & “We’re going to do our sound check now, usually we have other people do this, but it’s the recession,” said a joking Tim Kasher as he took the stage nearly an hour after the scheduled 11:30pm slot…

It is ungenerous, maybe, to call Ida Maria the thinking person’s Katy Perry. But just as Ms. Perry’s generally execrable “I Kissed a Girl,” a No…

DOWNLOAD: Max Tundra – “Which Song” (MP3) DOWNLOAD: Max Tundra – Playboy (Hot Chip) (MP3) DOWNLOAD: Max Tundra – promo mix 2008 (MP3) Enigmatic Brit artist Max Tundra has been releasing music for 10 years but only just released his third album, Parallax Error Beheads You, back in October — his first in six years…

For fans of Shoegaze/Dreampop/etc, the Bell House is where you want to be tonight (1/8) for a free show with locals The Depreciation Guild, Dead Leaf Echo, and Luxa…

DOWNLOAD: AA Bondy – Rapture Sweet Rapture (live for HearYa) (MP3) HearYa is a website that, like Daytrotter, does live sessions with bands and then posts the MP3s…

DOWNLOAD: Loney Dear – “Airport Surroundings” (MP3) DOWNLOAD: AC Newman – “Submarines of Stockholm” (MP3) DOWNLOAD: Matador Records Intended Play sampler 2008 (ZIP file) I’m excited for Ida Maria, but those shows are a month away…

DOWNLOAD: Benjy Ferree – Fear (MP3) , the second full-length album from Ferree, is a musical eulogy to the forgotten child star, Bobby Driscoll…