Glasslands

The media world is buzzing from news that Vice Media laid off a significant number of staff on Thursday and that it will reportedly be consolidating its NYC offices to the Brooklyn Navy Yard...

Thursday frontman Geoff Rickly's band No Devotion is signed to the label (which has now partnered with Equal Vision) too.

The first wave of shows for Elsewhere have been announced, including Parquet Courts, ADULT, No Age, Sunflower Bean, Anamanaguchi, and more.

New Year's Eve was the last-ever show for Glasslands on Kent Ave in Williamsburg. The night's secret lineup turned out to be DIIV, Sky Ferreira, Smith Westerns, and openers Beverly...

"It is still tough to play it cool when a crowd goes as nuts as you guys did @glasslands last night. Thank you for an amazing show." - @CYMBLS_EAT_GTRS

Cymbals Eat Guitars @ Glasslands 12/30/2014

Cymbals Eat Guitars headlined Glasslands' penultimate night (12/30) on Kent Avenue last nig…

Every few months, it seems, one of the spaces that transformed Williamsburg from warehouse-heavy cultural dead zone to warehouse-heavy primordial soup for the city's creative life finally surrenders to the neighborhood's ongoing condo-fication, literal and metaphorical...

; photos via @Glasslands



Williamsburg venue Glasslands only has eight more nights left in business. In its early Glasslands Gallery days, the place had a lot of art-related events and, in that spirit, has added a bunch of new pieces for it's final days, all curated by Collective Craft...

As mentioned, Glasslands will be closing out their time on Kent Ave with a New Year's Eve Party featuring four "special, secret" guests, all of whom have history with the venue...

As you may know, Williamsburg's Glasslands -- the last holdout of the Kent/S. 2nd block -- will be closing at the end of the year. Like Death by Audio did, Glasslands has seen a few mainstay bands get back together to say goodbye to the venue...

Cymbals Eat Guitars wrapped up their tour with Alex G (more on him here) over the weekend (unfortunately they had to cancel their Albany show though), hitting NYC on Friday (12/12) at Knitting Factory...