Kyle Dean Reinford

Phosphorescent closed out the day at the free BrooklynVegan day party at Pianos on Thursday, October 23rd. He played to a packed room upstairs right after Wye Oak who also tested that room’s capacity limits…

Those lucky enough to be upstairs at the Thursday BV party at Pianos (10/23/2008) got to hear the sweet singing voice of Sharon Van Etten. Those who missed her have plenty more chances including a November 25th show at Glasslands with Luke Temple who is playing with Deer Tick this Saturday and who played one of the 2007 BV afternoon CMJ parties in the same exact room Sharon played in this year…

Our Thursday (10/23) day party at Pianos got a late start – the upstairs anyway. That ended up being a good thing for Twi the Humble Feather whose set time switched from 12:15 pm to the usually more-desirable 2:00…

words & Last night, election night, I made my way to The Bell House in Park Slope/Gowaus for what was sure to be a nervously excited crowd counting down the minutes until the new president was announced…

DOWNLOAD: The Carps – Heaven’s Gate Hell’s Flames Remix w/ the Cool Kids (MP3) It was early, but it was fun. The Carps were one of the first bands to hit the main stage (12:45) at the Brooklyn Vegan Day Party at The Knitting Factory on Oct 25th, but that didn’t mean they were, or left anyone else, half-asleep…

I was running late to the Merge showcase Saturday night (10/25), but luckily caught The Music Tapes in the middle the fantastic rendition of “An Orchistration’s Overture,” a duet between frontman Julian Koster and a TV-headed robot (who appeared on stage across from a 7-foot wooden metronome)…

Women played the Knitting Factory Tap Room on Saturday (10/25), early evening, as part of BV’s CMJ day party. Hawking their new Jagjaguwar released self-titled debut, the band split its sound between downtown arty and straight-up psych-pop…

From their gig in the Knitting Factory Old Office (10/25), I’d say that that seeing The Mae Shi live is a lot like walking into a Mae Shi practice, with the band kicking through a set of rough sounding punk ditties that eventually settle into their charming power-pop shtick…

Mission Of Burma headlined the Rhapsody/Becks/IBM/McDonalds/Taco Bell party at Music Hall Of Williamsburg along with The King Khan & BBQ Show, The Dutchess & The Duke, and Jay Reatard (pics here)…

“I could give you a million adjectives to describe it, but just ‘disappointed’ would probably be the most important one,” he says over the phone from his home in Memphis during a brief break in an exhaustive tour schedule…