Asobi Seksu

Fun Fun Fun Fest 2011 came to a close on Sunday night. It was another successful year for the well-rounded music fest, and the end of its first in the larger (and much dustier) Auditorium Shores...

Japanese band Boris have been touring across America with a rotating cast of notable openers including Coliseum and Tera Melos (who they played with in Chicago), and Asobi Seksu and Liturgy who supported them in NYC at Irving Plaza on Thursday night (10/27)...

Slayer at Izod Center (photos by Samantha Marble) Slayer, Thee Oh Sees, Public Enemy, Girls, Danzig Legacy, (Danzig + Doyle von Frankenstein playing Misfits, Samhain & Danzig), Hot Snakes, Diplo, Major Lazer, Henry Rollins, Ted Leo & The Phramacists, Spank Rock, Murder City Devils, Hum, Lykke Li, Passion Pit, Four Tet, Rakim, The Damned, Austra, Purity Ring, and Flynt Flossy are just a few of the acts announced today as part of the Fun Fun Fun Fest 2011 lineup...

and Chris La Putt Asobi Seksu opened the Radio Dept show at South Street Seaport last night (7/15), on the very stage that The Black Angels will headline today as part of the 4Knots Music Festival...

Boris's new LP offerings Attention Please and Heavy Rocks (2011) represent a bit of a stylistic change for the ever-shifting Japanese band...

Swedish dream-poppers The Radio Dept are releasing all three of their albums on 180 gram vinyl. This includes the classic Lesser Matters, its followup Pet Grief, and the more recently released Clinging to a Scheme, which came out during a time the sound they helped make popular was achieving massive success...

Joan of Arc in 2008 (more by Leia Jospe) After dates on their current southwestern tour and a forthcoming UK tour come to an end, Joan of Arc will kick off another leg of dates in Pontiac, MI with Implodes heading toward the East Coast before looping back to a tour-ending show in St...

fireworks @ the Seaport in 2010 (more by Chris La Putt) INITIAL SOUTH STREET SEAPORT CONCERT LINEUP June 24: The Ghost of a Sabre Tooth Tiger (Sean Lennon) + TBA June 26: My Teenage Stride (Sunday) July 01: Lower Dens & Dirty Beaches July 03: The Hairs (Sunday) July 08: The Wake & Weekend July 10: Pow Wow...

DOWNLOAD: Asobi Seksu - Trails (Deerhoof remix) (MP3) DOWNLOAD: Asobi Seksu - Perfectly Crystal (Beach Fossils/Spirit Animal remix) (MP3 premiere) Shoegazey rockers Asobi Seksu's new album Fluorescence was released via Polyvinyl in February...

Asobi Seksu @ a CMJ-BV show at Public Assembly (more by Chris Gersbeck) Asobi Seksu's appearance at Highline Ballroom was recently called off due to snow, and the band's forthcoming Record Release party at Mercury Lounge on 2/17 is now officially sold out...