Chet “JR” White, Girls member and producer, RIP
Girls singer Christopher Owens wrote, ”I hope you feel nothing but peace now my brother. I love you, and thank you for believing in me, and for what you brought to the table.”
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Christopher Owens’ new band Curls preps debut (listen), playing shows
Onetime Girls frontman Christopher Owens was working on his next solo record when he started playing with Cody Rhodes and Luke Baće. They clicked and Curls was born...
DIIV went “unplugged” at Murmrr Theatre (pics, setlist)
DIIV played a special "unplugged" show at Brooklyn's new (old) Murmrr Theatre on August 17 where they promised "new arrangements, covers, new music, maybe even some new clothes (but probably not)." There were definitely a bunch of interesting covers...
Remembering Cake Shop (pics, video, tributes)
The Lower East Side indie rock venue closed on New Year's Eve weekend.
Zosia Mamet of ‘Girls’ to play Patti Smith in Robert Mapplethorpe biopic from the director of DiG!
Ondi Timoner, who spent years filming The Brian Jonestown Massacre for rock doc DiG!, will make her non-documentary feature debut with Maplethorpe, about acclaimed and controversial artist Robert Maplethorpe who died in 1989...
Natasha Lyonne (OITNB) & Alex Karpovsky (‘Girls’) star in funny new Tanlines video, “Palace”
Tanlines have just made a new video for "Palace" from this year's Highlights. Starring Orange is the New Black's Natasha Lyonne and Girls' Alex Karpovsky (who co-directed with Teddy Blanks who did the music for Tiny Furniture), the video takes a ripple theory approach to relationships/breakups, asking "what if...
‘Broad City’ & ‘Girls’ are back with new seasons (watch teasers and catch up on previous episodes now)
Two very popular comedies about struggling 20-somethings in NYC return to TV soon. Lena Dunham's Girls returns for its fourth season this Sunday (1/11) on HBO...
Christopher Owens streaming new album; his two NYC shows are this week (updated dates)
Former Girls frontman Christopher Owens will release his second solo album, A New Testament, next week (9/30) and you can stream the entire album over at Pitchfork Advance...
Lena Dunham, Matt Groening, Neil Gaiman & others having conversations at BAM
The Brooklyn Academy of Music has announced:Bestsellers, trend-setters, celebrities, visual wizards, and story-tellers converge at BAM in three wide-ranging, one-night-only events in the winter of 2015...
Pitchfork’s Top 100 Albums of the Decade So Far (2010-2014)
Yesterday, Pitchfork posted their top 200 tracks of the decade so far, and today they've listed the top 100 albums to have come out between 2010-2014...