BV Studio Sessions

New Brunswick's ROMP recently released their debut album Departure From Venus (Bad Timing Records), which is full of tuneful, lyrical indie-pop punk. We recently met up with the band at an arcade in Philly to film singer/keyboardist Madison Klarer and guitarist Lucas Dalakian playing a stripped…

Welsh band Los Campesinos! were recently in NYC playing one of a handful of U.S. shows in support of new album No Blues. While they were here, the band made time to perform the ninth installment of our BV Studio Sessions recorded at Grand Street Recording in Brooklyn...

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Hospitality's terrific second album, Trouble, is out today via Merge. It finds the Brooklyn band loosening up and confident taking their sound into new areas -- most notably prominent use of keyboards...

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Jordan Lee's art pop collective Mutual Benefit celebrated the vinyl re-release of their 2013 debut LP, Love's Crushing Diamond, via Other Music this week (1/7), and part of that celebration included performing one of its tracks, "Advanced Falconry," plus …

video and Chris La PuttWhat has being "Eleanor Friedberger" brought you that being a Fiery Furnace hasn't?

Eleanor Friedberger: Well, if it doesn't sound too corny, it's helped me tremendously...

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Savoir Adore are currently on the West Coast, having played LA's The Echo on Wednesday (8/7) with Only You and Fever the Ghost, and pictures from that show are in this post...

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Noun, the project of Screaming Females frontwoman Marissa Paternoster (whose birthday is today...

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Ex Cops are taking it easy this summer after a winter and spring filled with touring. The band played July 4 at MoMA (did you go to that...

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Brooklyn poppy shoegazers Field Mouse are currently on tour with Laura Stevenson and the Cans, and that jaunt will finish on May 24 at Bowery Ballroom...

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It's a busy day for Brooklyn's Ski Lodge. Their new single, "Just To Be Like You" was released today via Dovecote (music video is below) and tonight they'll open for Born Ruffians' sold-out show at Bowery Ballroom with Moon King...