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NYC record store Other Music may be gone but we've got year-end lists from 20 of their staff members.

San Francisco's The Love-Birds, who released the terrific, jangly/messy Filled With Hate EP this summer, have signed with Trouble in Mind who will release their debut LP in spring of 2018...

The great queercore band Limp Wrist said they'd be releasing their first album in nine years, Facades, early this month, and now it's here. It's as ferocious and uncompromising as Limp Wrist ever were.

Tonight's NYC shows include a free Battles/Protomartyr show, LCD Soundsystem, This Is The Kit, Chastity Belt, Dr. Danny and Michael D'Addario of Lemon Twigs, and more.

Philadelphia's Mercury Girls won the battle over use of their name (Toronto's Mercury Girls are now called Pavilion). With that settled, look for a 7" out early next year on venerable indiepop label Slumberland...

Cold Beat, the newish band from Grass Widow's Hannah Lew, release their second album, Into the Air, on Friday (9/4) and it's a killer mix of post-punk influences, from early '80s scratchy UK indiepop to minimal wave synth and more aggressive guitar blasts...

Royal Headache have shared a second song from their upcoming album, High. "Another World" is a little more typical of the new album (and Royal Headache) than "High," a ripper that recalls the poppier side of UK punk...

Mexican Summer's 5th Anniversary celebration is this weekend (October 11 & 12) happening at Pioneer Works in Red Hook. The shows will happen inside and outdoors and Friday (10/11) features Ariel Pink, Tamaryn, The Fresh & Onlys, Mike Wexler, Bobb Trimble's Flying Spiders, and Home Blitz; Saturday (10/12) has Spiritualized, No Joy, Connan Mockasin (first US show), a reunited Lansing-Dreiden, Co-La, Lilacs & Champagne, Happy Jawbone Family Band, folk cult hero Linda Perhacs (first NY show), Quilt, Weyes Blood and Soldiers of Fortune. Tickets ar...

Spiritualized at Webster Hall last week (more by Greg Cristman) Last week, we mentioned that Brooklyn label Mexican Summer would be throwing a fifth anniversary party in Red Hook (like Captured Tracks just did in Bushwick)...

Game Theory and Loud Family frontman Scott Miller died back in April which hit a lot of fans hard. And he had a lot of fans, many of whom are musicians...