Conversion Party

(via) When underrated Brooklyn indie rock outfit Conversion Party disbanded last year, some of the members soldiered on to form Pre War who have been gigging and working on their debut album for most of 2013...

We already posted lots of posts today. Here's some more, and some reminders too... Jay-Z & Beyonce raised a cool $4M for Barack Obama at their benefit last night ("Beyonce could not be a better role model for my girls," Obama said,)...

Clap Your Hands Say Yeah and Conversion Party played a last minute BrooklynVegan-presented show, announced that morning, at Littlefield on Monday...

CYHSY @ Sasquatch 2007 (more by Jerry Yeti) Surprise! Clap Your Hands Say Yeah, whose sold out 9/20 Bowery Ballroom show was your next and first public time to catch the band in NYC since their return, will play a BrooklynVegan-presented show at the smaller (but 21+) Littlefield in Brooklyn TONIGHT (8/8) with Conversion Party ...

DOWNLOAD: Title Tracks - All Tricks (MP3) DOWNLOAD: Pursesnatchers - Baseball on the Radio (MP3) DOWNLOAD: The Paperhead - Back to Those Days (MP3) First up is The Paperhead who are in town for two shows: Tonight (7/2) at Death by Audio and Friday (7/22) at Bruar Falls...

I absolutely hated Cake Shop, which opened around this time back in 2005, the first few times I went. Not the idea of the place, which was fantastic: part coffee shop, part record store, part indie rock venue...

DOWNLOAD: Surf City - Kudos (MP3) DOWNLOAD: Surf City - Crazy Ruler of the World (MP3) If you missed them in April:NZ shoehazers, Surf City will hunker down in New York City to begin recording their follow up to the acclaimed Kudos (to be released by Fire Records in 2012)...