Weekend

As we posted last night, CMJ held a 2013 Music Marathon line-up announcement last night (8/27) in NYC at Bowery Electric. In addition to finding out that The Long Winters, Obits, Yamantaka // Sonic Titan, Savages, Pelican and more were going to be here for the fest in October, those in attendance were also treated to live sets from Brooklyn sandblasters Weekend and Providence, RI’s widescreen dancepop act Magic Man…

Medicine played their first NYC show in nearly two decades over last Friday (8/16), with support from Weekend and Leverage Models. We already posted one set of pictures and a review from that show, and now we have another that are in this post…

After an 18-year absence, LA ethereal noisemakers Medicine returned with To the Happy Few, which surprisingly picked right up where they left off, as weird and beautiful and dissonant as ever…

‘Jinx’ artwork Weekend‘s second album, Jinx, isn’t out till next week (7/23) but you can stream the whole thing right now over at NPR. If you’re a fan at all of mid-’80s style gothy postpunk (Chameleons, The Sound, Comsat Angels), Jinx will hit the sweet spot…

Leverage Models (aka Shannon from Stars Like Fleas and friends) are set to release their debut on October 1 via Hometapes. You may have already heard their track, “Cooperative Extensions” (which will be on the album), but the band have now made a video for it and we’ve got its premiere in this post…

Deafheaven‘s second NYC show this week with Marriages , scheduled for July 4 at 285 Kent, has added more for your patriotic, loud entertainment dollar…

As we just told you, Disappears have a new record, called Era, coming out on August 27 via Kranky. The album was recorded, who frontman Brian Case had worked with while in 90 Day Men, at Electrical Audio in January…

Disappears @ Do Division 2013 (more by Kirstie Shanley) Chicago’s Disappears are set to release a new full-length album, called Era, on August 27 via longtime label Kranky…

Weekend at SXSW 2011 (more by Amanda Hatfield) Shoegazy post-punk trio Weekend have announced a fall tour to support the release of their album, Jinx (due out on 7/22 via Slumberland), which you can preorder now…

Weekend have shared a second track from their upcoming second album, Jinx which is out July 22 via Slumberland. You can stream the pounding, rhythm-section-heavy “It’s Alright” below…