Happy Birthday

DOWNLOAD: King Tuff - Bad Thing (MP3) DOWNLOAD: King Tuff - Keep on Movin (MP3) DOWNLOAD: Jaill - Waste a Lot of Things (MP3) DOWNLOAD: Jaill - Perfect Ten (MP3) After a 2010 album with his band Happy Birthday, Scuzz popper extraordinaire Kyle Thomas has returned to his solo King Tuff moniker for his brand new album, out this week on Sub Pop...

Way back at the beginning of CMJ, Times New Viking, Happy Birthday and Wild Nothing opened for Jenny and Johnny at Irving Plaza. This post has the pictures of those openers...

"I, for one, enthusiastically accept Scion as my new corporate overlord. If they can bring the Gories, the Oblivians, King Khan and a cast of garage punks from far and wide to town in one day, they can sell me a sewage soda and I'd say thank you...

Sub Pop-signed band Happy Birthday (more about them HERE and HERE) play a free show at Brooklyn Bowl on Tuesday night (9/7). The "Fader Bowl" party will also feature a DJ set (Doors: 6:00 PM / Show: 9:00 PM)...

After detours in The Raconteurs and The Dead Weather among other projects, The Greenhornes are back at it and will release their first LP of new material in eight years via Jack White's Third Man imprint...

interview, top photo DOWNLOAD: DOM - Jesus (MP3) DOWNLOAD: DOM - Living In America (MP3) DOWNLOAD: DOM - Burn Bridges (MP3) Dom, pictured above playing at a party inside Pitchfork's Brooklyn offices on Tuesday night, are in town to play two Northside Festival shows...

DOWNLOAD: BOAT - Prince of Tacoma (MP3) DOWNLOAD: BOAT - We've Been Friends Since 1989 (MP3) DOWNLOAD: BOAT - Lately (MP3) DOWNLOAD: BOAT - I'm a Donkey for Your Love (MP3) DOWNLOAD: BOAT - Last Cans of Paint (MP3) BOAT (more by Ryan Muir) In addition to playing this year's NYC Popfest (Saturday, May 22 at Bell House), Seattle's BOAT have two other shows lined up while visiting our city...

DOWNLOAD: Standard Fare - Dancing (MP3) DOWNLOAD: Diehard - Cool Kids (MP3) DOWNLOAD: Sally Head - Man with Small Hands (MP3) DOWNLOAD: Woods - I Was Gone (MP3) Standard Fare It's March Madness, people...

DOWNLOAD: Dum Dum Girls - Jail La La (Mp3) DOWNLOAD: Happy Birthday - Girls FM (MP3) DOWNLOAD: The Bloodsugars - Light at the End of the Tunnel (Mp3) It's another jam-packed week of shows...

Girls @ Bowery Ballroom in Nov (more by Vincent Cornelli) San Francisco's Girls are currently on the road with their friends the Smith Westerns and Magic Kids, the many-membered pop group from Memphis who played NYC last July and whose debut LP, it was just announced, comes out later this year on True Panther Sounds (which is now part of Matador and also the label that put out the Girls record)...