Beth Wawerna

Beth Wawerna is releasing the new Bird of Youth album Get Off next week (5/20) via Kiam Records (pre-order), and we're premiering the full stream in this post. It follows her 2011 debut Defender and...

Okkervil River are celebrating the 10th anniversary of their best album Black Sheep Boy with a reissue (due 12/4 via Jagjaguwar) and a tour that has them playing the album in f...

I often make the outrageous drunken claim that the Rock*A*Teens were the best rock and roll band of the 1990s. It's sort of ridiculous to say, but as I write this sentence stone sober and drinking a glass of juice, I still kind of believe it...

Death Cab for Cutie frontman Ben Gibbard released his debut solo LP, Former Lives, yesterday (10/16) and celebrated it with a private, intimate release show at HiFi Bar on Avenue A...

Ben Gibbard w/ Death Cab at Beacon Theater in April (more by Dominick Mastrangelo) Death Cab for Cutie frontman Ben Gibbard releases his solo debut LP, Former Lives, this Tuesday (10/16) via Barsuk and he'll play an invite-only record release show in NYC during CMJ on the day of the release (10/16) at HiFi Bar (169 Avenue A, formerly Brownies where Death Cab played way back when)...

DOWNLOAD: Bird of Youth - Bombs Away, She Is Here to Stay (MP3) The Friday night show at Music Hall of Williamsburg featured three very different songwriters who all happen to live within a few blocks of the venue...

Tonight, Tuesday, August 24th, marks the third week of the Bird of Youth residency at the Living Room in NYC. Tonight's guest is Charles Bissell of the Wrens, so that should be especially good...

Field Music didn't make it, but there was a special reunion set, followed by the super duper Wye Oak who played before special guest Rumours last night at The Bell House in Brooklyn (12/3)...

TheRumpus.net is having a launch party at Crash Mansion in NYC tonight (2/5). According to the ticket page, there will be "Music of Okkervil River, Timothy Bracy of the Mendoza Line and Beth Wawerna of Bird Of Youth" and "Comedy by: Kristen Shaal of Flight of the Conchords, and Michael Showalter from Comedy Central's Stella" and "Readings from authors: James Frey, Andrew Sean Greer, Jonathan Ames, and This American Life's Starlee Kine"...