Junior Prom

She'll play Communion NYC's April takeover of Rockwood Music Hall after hitting SXSW.

Darwin Deez previewed songs off his forthcoming third album, Double Down, at Baby's All Right last week (8/26). He and the band, who still take breaks for some choreographed dance moves every few songs, played new singles "Time Machine" and "Kill Your Attitude" in between older favorites like "Constellations" and "Bad Day...

Darwin Deez will release his third album, Double Down, via Lucky Number on September 18. It finds him in pretty much the same danceable guitar pop mode as his 2009 debut, scaling back a bit from 2013's more lush Songs For Imaginative People, with spare arrangements allowing for a lot of breathing room (kinda the way early Spoon records were)...

Brooklyn's Total Slacker released Slip Away earlier this year, a serious '90s nostalgia trip. The band have cranked out two new videos in the last week, gearing up for a tour with Bear Hands and Junior Prom...

The 2013 CMJ Music Marathon happens from October 15 - 19 at clubs all over New York City. As we've been tweeting about at @BVCMJ, tonight (8/27), the CMJ folks held an announcement party at Bowery Electric with live performances from Weekend and Magic Man...

Florida band Black Kids got a bit of a bum rap, one of the first casualties of the ramped-up hype cycle we now live in. After the shrugs they received from their rushed debut album (less than a year after people went nuts for their free, enjoyable Wizard of Ahhs EP), the band wisely took time out to regroup, finish school and generally live their lives...

FACT recently posted their Top 40 Best Reissues of 2012 list (check out the whole thing HERE) and the number one spot went to Monotonprodukt07, the 1982 album (aka Austrian electronic musician Konrad Becker)...