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Sonic Avenues releasing a new LP, touring, playing Dirtnap showcase in NYC (stream their new label sampler) (dates)

Garage/punk label Dirtnap Records is releasing a new label sampler with a previously unreleased song from Montreal’s Sonic Avenues, “New Vogues,” as well as previously released material from The Marked Men, Radioactivity, Mind Spiders, Missing Monuments, Bad Sports, Sugar Stems and more…

Young Widows, Trans Am, Radioactivity, Swans & more tix

Tickets to see Hannibal Buress at Beat Kitchen are on sale now. Tickets to see Josh Ritter at City Winery Chicago go on sale this Friday (3/28) at noon CST…

Radioactivity + Bad Sports teaming up for Empty Bottle show

Radioactivity @ Austin’s Lamar Pedestrian Bridge (more by Amanda Hatfield) It’s late-March and there’s still snow on the ground. With that said, here’s your kickoff to summer — Radioactivity (the newish project of Marked Men members Mark Ryan and Jeff Burke) and their Texas cohorts Bad Sports (who are fronted by OBN III’s’ Orville Neeley) will be heading to Chicago for a show at the Empty Bottle on June 20…

Bill's Top 10 things he saw at SXSW 2014

I’m not sure how many artists I saw over the course of five days at SXSW but it was a lot. My week started (Kelley Stoltz) and ended (La Luz) at Hotel Vegas which was probably my favorite place to see bands in Austin…

stream new albums from Nine Inch Nails, Chelsea Wolfe, Okkervil River, Neko Case, Drumgasm, Vattnet Viskar & more

Nine Inch Nails, who will be in the NYC-area for a few shows with Godspeed You! Black Emperor soon, are streaming their new album, Hesitation Marks, on iTunes…

A guide to New Year's Eve shows and parties in Chicago

We’ve been talking New Year’s Eve for quite some time, and since the world didn’t end last week, all the great shows and parties we told you about are still happening…

The Marked Men and Mind Spiders are playing the Bottle in December (separately)

The Marked Men @ Beerland during Chaos in Tejas 2011 (more by Harriet Roberts) Denton, TX punks The Marked Men and Mind Spiders are both headed to Chicago in late-December to play the Empty Bottle…

Nobunny played Otto's Shrunken Head with Bad Sports (pics); playing tonight at Living Bread Deli

Last night at East Village tiki bar Otto’s Shunken Head, Sailor Jerry presented a night of garage bubblegum insanity with Nobunny, The Tough Shits and Bad Sports…

Nobunny readies new album, going on tour (dates) including 2 NYC shows before Gonerfest in Memphis (full lineup)

Nobunny at Bowery Ballroom, September 2011 (more by Ryan Barkan) Bubblegum weirdo Nobunny is currently putting the finishing touches on his new album for Goner records which will be out this fall…

Bill's SXSW Sat. in cameraphone pics (Mean Jeans, Wrong Words, Mikal Cronin, Bad Sports, The Jameses, Elephant Stone, Eternal Summers, Django Django, White Fence + more)

If you’re just joining me, check out WEDNESDAY, THURSDAY, and FRIDAY first. Final day of SXSW. Saturday. St. Patrick’s Day. It shoulda been a recipe for disaster, and I did see my first puking girl at 12:30PM, but I think the hard partying types burned themselves out the night before…
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