M Geddes Gengras

Akron/Family are about to drop their new album, Sub Verses this week (4/30) (stream it) and they've been supporting that on a tour that just landed the freak folk crew in NYC for a show this past Wednesday (4/24) at Bowery Ballroom...

Akron/Family at LPR in 2010 (more by Anna Scialli) As mentioned, Akron/Family are releasing their new album, Sub Verses, on April 30 via Dead Oce...

As mentioned, tickets went on sale today for the previously announced Red Bull Music Academy events, which take over NYC from April 28 to May 31...

Sun Araw at BV-SXSW 2012 (more by Nate "Igor" Smith) Sun Araw and M. Geddes Gengras took part in one of 2012's most interesting (relatively) obscure releases with Icon Give Thank, a collaborative album with reggae legends/Lee "Scratch" Perry associates The Congos...

Pitchfork just posted their Honorable Mention Albums of 2012, which they consider "20 records didn't make Top 50 but they're not necessarily just Nos...

UK music magazine Uncut put out their list of the top 75 albums of 2012. The top ten leans pretty heavy on long-running '60s/'70s survivors who put out new albums this year, but plenty of the list-topping regulars from newer acts are on there too, along with a few interesting surprises (Sun Araw, M Geddes Gengras & the Congos...

Chicago footwork producer DJ Rashad released the excellent TEKLIFE Vol. 1: Welcome to the Chi album earlier this year, and played a Brooklyn show at 285 Kent soon after with Total Freedom and J-Cush...

Laurel Halo at MoMA PS1 in 2011 (more by Amanda Hatfield) Producer turned art pop wizard Laurel Halo and post-hardcore noisemaker turned producer Ital are teaming up for a tour together later this year...

"Seeing Sun Araw live feels as much like a dream as reality, and high energy never came easy. It felt a bit like drowning in codeine syrup, you struggle at first, and then eventually realize it feels better to be in the syrup than out of it...

Ryan Adams seems to usually play very crowd-friendly venues, so it was definitely a surprise to see that his next NYC show is at the less-popular Hammerstein Ballroom on Halloween...