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Big Thief's Buck Meek signs to 4AD, announces new LP 'Haunted Mountain,' shares title track

“Not break-up songs, but an actual love song written in earnest? That is taboo now,” Buck says of writing the album. “Sometimes it can feel like all the great love songs have already been written.”

Sleepers Work readies debut LP (streams), playing two free NYC shows (one w/ Joel Ford)

Sleepers Work is the alias of Brooklyn-based multi-instrumentalist William Flynn who has toured with St. Vincent, and has worked with Acrylics, Aufgang, and others…

What's going on Thursday? (TOY, Connan Mockasin, Against Me!, Neil Young, DVA, Jherek Bischoff, Big Ups & more)

TOY at BV-SXSW 2013 (more by Sarah Frankie Linder) Connan Mockasin at Mexican Summer Five (more by PSquared) Browse our full NYC show calendar for all of tonight’s shows…

Luke Temple released new LP (streams), doing guest-filled NYC "improvisational" residency in December & other dates

While he’s spent the last few years concentrating on Here We Go Magic, Luke Temple recently returned to solo mode with Good Mood Fool which was released a couple weeks ago via Secretly Canadian…

Rafiq Bhatia readies EP & LP, kicking off Pianos residency w/ Anti-Pop Consortium (BV presents) ++ other shows & streams

Anti-Pop Consortium His set at Cameo Gallery in Williamsburg, Brooklyn, on Friday came at least partially from jazz. Not standards and bebop, but jazz of the past 30 years, let’s say, involving solid-bodied guitars…

Doldrums playing Muchmore's in Brooklyn after 4Knots (dates)

Doldrums at NXNE 2012 (more by David Andrako) You should know at this point that the free 4Knots Music Festival happens this Saturday (7/14) at South Street Seaport with a bunch of bands including Archers of Loaf, The Drums, Crocodiles, Hospitality, Bleached, Doldrums, and more…