What’s Going on Saturday?
Saturday’s NYC-area shows include Destroyer, Nilüfer Yanya, Lingua Ignota, The Chats, The Slackers, and more.
Flower
Tour news: Nick Cave & Warren Ellis, Lady Gaga, The Cult, Bad Religion, more
Plus: Gov't Mule, Breakbot & Irfane, AFI, Warthog, Halsey, Peaches, slowthai, Koffee, Kae Tempest, Bad Bunny, and more tour and festival news.
What’s Going on Sunday?
Today's NYC-area shows include The Songs of Big Star, Adrianne Lenker, Armand Hammer, Chaka Khan, Sloppy Jane, and more
Bill’s Indie Basement (7/24): the week in classic indie, college rock, and more
This week in Indie Basement: reviews of new albums by pre-Versus band Flower, John Foxx & The Maths, Winter, and Pye Corner Audio, plus two classic Chills albums get vinyl reissues.
pre-Versus band Flower’s 1st album in 30 years out in July (listen to “Annihilation Time”)
None Is (But Once Was), Flower's first album in 30 years, will be out July 24.
Sebadoh announce 2020 spring tour with Versus, Flower & more
While Dinosaur Jr are working on their new album, Lou Barlow has additional plans -- touring with Sebadoh behind last year's Act Surprised.
pre-Versus band Flower prep 1st record in 29 years, touring w/ Sebadoh (stream 2 songs)
Before forming Versus, Richard and Ed Baluyut played in NYC indie rock band Flower, who traveled in similar noisy circles to Sonic Youth and Swans and released two albums and an EP before calling it quits in 1990. The original lineup have gotten back together and will release...
What’s going on Saturday?
Saturday options include Sharon Van Etten, Morrissey, The Feelies, Hot Snakes, the Tribeca Film Festival, Jerry Seinfeld, Infest, Earth Crisis, and more.
What’s going on Friday?
Tonight's NYC-area shows include Better Oblivion Community Center, the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame induction ceremony, The Soul Rebels (with Talib kweli & DMX), Nils Frahm, Swervedriver/Failure, and more.
Versus prep first new records in 9 years (listen to “Invisible Love”), playing SXSW
It's been nine years since indie rock vets Versus released an album but they'll play catchup this year. Meanwhile, Versus-related groups Flower and +/- are working on new records too.