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Alex Calder hails from Edmonton, Alberta, and was a member of Makeout Videotape, aka Mac DeMarco’s old band. Like Mac, he’s now part of the Captured Tracks roster and will release his debut album, Strange Dreams, on January 20…

You can browse our full NYC show calendar for all of tonight’s shows, but here are some highlights… Neneh Cherry, Sinkane, Kaki King @ Highline Ballroom Nearly 30 years after “Buffalo Stance” (and with a new, Four Tet-produced LP under her belt), Neneh Cherry plays her first-ever NYC show tonight with solid support…

UK band CYMBALS released their new album, The Age Of Fracture, earlier this year. The album’s pulsing, penultimate track, “The End,” has just gotten a gorgeous, pensive music video that takes a 24-hour look at London…

Little Dragon at Prospect Park in 2012 (more by Ryan Muir) You can browse our full NYC show calendar for all of tonight’s shows, but here are some highlights…

Georgia resident Ben Asbury is just 23 but has been into music for a long time (“I got into punk in the third grade” claims his press release) and now records under the guise Axxa/Abraxas…

Titus Andronicus at Terminal 5 in 2013 (more by David Andrako) The 2014 Northside Festival returns to multiple Brooklyn venues from June 12-15, and the initial lineup was just announced…

MINKS sophomore album, Tides End, was released this week via Captured Tracks. As mentioned, main man Sonny Kilfoyle makes an about-face from 2011’s tunefully dour By the Hedge, this time bright, shimmery, wistful and loaded with extremely hummable pop songs…