What’s Going on Saturday?
Saturday’s NYC-area shows include My Chemical Romance, Peter Hook & The Light, ODESZA, Lightning Bolt, Bad Bunny, Bodega, and more.
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Pharmakon & more playing Ghost Ship memorial/benefit show at Saint Vitus
Noise great Pharmakon will play Brooklyn's Saint Vitus on December 29, part of a benefit and memorial for the victims of the tragic Ghost Ship fire in Oakland with proceeds also supporting the Bay Area trans community...
Montreal synthwave duo Essaie Pas released new LP on DFA, touring (dates, LP stream)
Montreal duo Essaie Pas are Marie Davidson and Pierre Guerineau who make dark slinky synthwave that could be the soundtrack to a postpunk noir thriller set in 1980...
Primavera 2016 lineup (Radiohead, LCD Soundsystem, Sigur Ros, PJ Harvey, Brian Wilson, Drive Like Jehu, Suede, more)
Barcelona's Primavera Sound festival returns from June 1-5, and as always, the lineup is pretty amazing. They've got Radiohead, LCD Soundsystem, Sigur Ros, PJ Harvey, Tame Impala, The Last Shadow Puppets, Air, Brian Wilson (performing Pet Sounds), Beach House, Suede, Beirut, Animal Collective, Pusha T, Action Bronson, Explosions in the Sky, Moderat, John Carpenter, Vince Staples, Drive Like Jehu, Deerhunter, Dinosaur Jr, Richard Hawley, Kamasi Washington, Neon Indian, Battles, Ty Segall, Julia Holter, Destroyer, Thee Oh Sees, Titus Andronicus, Tortoise, Mudhoney, Boredoms, Royal Headache, Shellac, Dungen, Beach Slang, Venom, Unsane, The Chills, Holly Herndon, Psychic TV, Mbong...
FACT’s Top 50 Albums of 2015
FACT published their 50 Best Albums of 2015 list and as always, it's one of the more unique lists of the year. It's loaded with high-quality electronic music, rap, R&B, indie, pop, and more, and you're almost guaranteed to find something on it you haven't...
A Few Albums That Won’t Be On Pitchfork’s Best of 2015
Yesterday, Pitchfork put out their 100 Best Songs of 2015 list, and today they published their Honorable Mentions for albums of the year. A few of the albums did receive Best New Music during the year, like Lower Dens, Levon Vincent, Prurient and Viet Cong, and others weren't reviewed at all like ...
The Quietus’ Top 100 Albums of 2015
If you're sick of seeing the same names atop every publication's year-end list, you can always count on The Quietus to deliver something almost completely different...
2015 4th of July weekend NYC event guide
The Fourth of July is this Saturday, and for those not using Independence Day Weekend to get away from the city -- or for those who will be visiting from out of town -- there's never a shortage of things to do...
Warm Up at MoMA PS1 2015 lineup (Cut Copy, Boys Noize, Baauer, Samantha Urbani, AG Cook, Sicko Mobb, Jlin, more)
NYC New Year’s Eve Concert Options: Disclosure, Erasure, !!!, Rainer Maria, Perfect Pussy, Obits, more ways to ring in 2015
We've been posting a bunch of New Year's Eve shows happening in NYC throughout the past few months, but there's even more cool stuff we haven't gotten to yet...