Hollis Brown

The 2014 SXSW Festival is coming up soon — March 11 – 16 in Austin, Texas — and they’ve just announced the third round of showcasing bands which is a massive update…

The Lou Reed tributes keep coming. Two of them just happened, including the one at Rodeo Bar on Wednesday (11/20) and the one with Jeffrey Lewis, Dawn Landes, and others at the Jalopy Theatre last night (11/21)…

Garage rock, as most of us have come to know it, hasn’t been a genre that NYC has bred that much of in the last 10 years. Maybe it’s the lack of actual garages but we tend to leave that to folk in San Francisco, Austin, Seattle and other points…

DFA1979 @ Treasure Island Fest 2011 (more by Autumn Andell) We already knew Japandroids would be playing a Governors Ball afterparty at Music Hall of Williamsburg on June 7…

Ian O’Neil of Deer Tick @ Carnegie Hall (more by Chris La Putt) Deer Tick‘s three-week Brooklyn Bowl residency begins TONIGHT (12/5). As mentioned, they’ll be performng different albums and EPs in full at the three shows…

Now we really know what’s going on. The CBGB Festival is happening July 5 – 8 at some 30 venues across the city, with over 300 bands participating, including the previously mentioned free Guided by Voices, Pains of Being Pure at Heart, and Cloud Nothings show at Summerstage (which now also includes The War on Drugs), the The Baseball Project and Craig Finn at City Winery, L……

DOWNLOAD: The War On Drugs – “Baby Missiles” (MP3) The War On Drugs at Webster Hall in April (more by Amanda Hatfield) The War On Drugs are releasing Slave Ambient on August 17 via Secretly Canadian…