Dirty Beaches

As mentioned, Dirty Beaches (aka Alex Zhang Hungtai) just released a new double album, Drifters/Love is the Devil (stream it via Spotify), and is in NYC this week for two shows...

Tom Petty at MSG in 2008 (more by Eric M. Townsend) today in NYC * Onra @ Le Bain * Whiplash @ UCB * Brain Cloud @ Barbes * Chicha Libre @ Barbes * Doron Sadja @ Roulette * John Hodgman @ Union Hall * Majical Cloudz @ Other Music * French Montana @ Fuse Studios * Doug Benson @ Gramercy Theatre * Andy D, Sofa Club, Ferns @ Glasslands * Snowmine, Ski Lodge @ Mercury Lounge * Laura Mvula, Foy Vance @ Bowery Ballroom * Portugal...

Existing for a barely five years, UK psych band Loop were one of the most perfectly-named bands ever. Rarely bothering with verse-chorus-verse song structure, the South London group took a riff and added layer upon layer till it had its own gravitational field...

Dirty Beaches (aka Alex Zhang Hungtai) is set to release his new double album, Drifters/Love Is The Devil, on May 21 via Zoo Music. The record evokes acid western imagery through lo-fi-as-an-art recording techniques, and the whole thing is really desolate sounding...

Dirty Beaches at LPR in 2012 (more by Fred Pessaro) As mentioned, Dirty Beaches (aka Alex Zhang Hungtai) is releasing his new double album, Drifters/Love Is The Devil on May 21 via Zoo Music...

today in NYC * Whiplash @ UCB * Francois K @ Cielo * Brain Cloud @ Barbes * Chicha Libre @ Barbes * Zack Zadek @ Joe's Pub * Johnny Winter @ B...

Grizzly Bear at Terminal 5 in 2012 (more by Amanda Hatfield) Grizzly Bear are still producing singles off of 2012's great Shields, and they've just made a video for "gun-shy," which was directed...

Band of Horses @ House of Vans, September 2012 (more by David Andrako) Jack White @ Roseland, May 2012 (more by Dana Yavin) today in NYC * DUMBO Arts Festival * Bill Ware @ The Stone * Mireya Ramos @ Barbes * Jay-Z @ Barclays Center * David Rogue @ Joe's Pub * The Pre-War Ponies @ Barbes * Pictureplane, DJ Dog Dick @ P...

Iceage finished a round of NYC shows with a performance at Le Poisson Rouge last night (7/22), appealing to their more gothic tendencies with appearances from Dirty Beaches, Martial Canterel and Rosenkopf...

If the many artists playing the Pitchfork Festival in Chicago this weekend, only a few will be part of the webcast on Pitchfork's Youtube Channel...