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What's going on Thursday? (Year of No Light, Prince Rama, Rural Alberta Advantage, Mitski, DD Dumbo, Lures & more)
Prince Rama at the Whitney in 2013 (more by Ryan Muir)
You can browse our full NYC show calendar for all of tonight’s shows, but here are some highlights…
Austrian band Sex Jams releasing US compilation (streams), touring w/ Ed Schrader, playing CMJ, other dates
Austria is not a huge country and hasn’t had that many famous musicians (Mozart, Falco, Belphagor…) but that hasn’t stopped Vienna’s Sex Jams from pursuing their dream of making shouty-punky rock for all to hear…
Left & Right releasing an album on Infinity Cat, touring, playing NYC w/ Dead Stars & Crow Bait (dates & stream)
The way they tell it, Philly’s Left & Right are just “four regular ass dudes trying to live their fucking lives man.” They also happen to make pretty good poppy punk, as you can hear on new single “Age of Independence” off their upcoming album, Five Year Plan, which comes out on September 9 on Infinity Cat’s Cassette Ser…
Backwords ready 'Nest' (stream a track), playing release show with Radical Dads, Dead Stars & Wild Yaks
Brooklyn’s Backwords are set to release their new album, Nest, on September 16 via Campers Rule. The band, which features multiple members who both write and sing lead, decamped to a Sunset Park warehouse to record the album, the bones of which were done live to tape…
What's going on Thursday? (Future Islands, Mykki Blanco, Temples, Tashaki Miyaki, Pulp doc, Borts Minorts, more)
Future Islands in Austin in April (more by Sarah Frankie Linder)
You can browse our full NYC show calendar for all of tonight’s shows, but here are some highlights…
4Knots Festival in pics (Dinosaur Jr, Mac DeMarco, Speedy Ortiz, Viet Cong, Nude Beach, Those Darlins, more)
NYC’s free, all-ages 4Knots Music Festival went down across two stages at the South Street Seaport. On the main stage (Pier 16), Radkey kicked things off with their classic-style punk, and (as you can see in the video below) at one point the PA cut out but they just kept rocking…
Ten Foot Pole, Sloppy Seconds, D.I., Antidote, Slaughter & the Dogs, Joey Cape and more punk tours hitting Grand Victory
Punk veterans Ten Foot Pole, who formed as the hardcore band Scared Straight in the early ’80s but changed their name before 1993’s more melodic punk-styled Swill, have announced that they’ll release their first new album since 2004’s Subliminable Messages in 2015 via Cyber Tracks (El Hehe of NOFX’s label)…
Gigawatts Fest expanding to 4 days, lineup includes Fiasco, Frankie Cosmos, Field Mouse, Tonstartssbandht & more
Fiasco at (the old) Silent Barn in 2010 (more by Leia Jospe)
Free bi-monthly DIY music, art and fashion mag 1.21 Gigawatts will once again put on their Gigawatts Festival this summer in Bushw…
Mac DeMarco & more added to 4Knots 2014 lineup
Mac DeMarco @ Burgerama III (more by Debi Del Grande)
The Village Voice has finalized the 2014 4Knots Festival lineup, adding Mac DeMarco to the lineup that already includes headliner Dinosaur Jr……
