This week's playlist includes new music by Aeon Station (Kevin Whelan of The Wrens), Let's Eat Grandma, Parquet Courts, Charlotte Adigery & Bolis Pupul, Wiki ft. Navy Blue, and more
The 2019 edition of the Sled Island music festival happens June 19-23 in downtown Calgary, AB. This year's guest curator is Julien Baker, who hand-picked Japanese Breakfast, JPEGMAFIA, Hop Along, Bully, Torres, Worries, Death Bells and Squirrel Flower to play the festival...
Chunklet owner Henry Owings is celebrating his 50th birthday with a series of cool shows -- a mini festival if you will -- in his home state of Georgia, featuring Elf Power, a reunited Velvet Monkeys, Come, Man or Astroman?, The Gotobeds, Magnapop, Honey Radar, Tar, the Pylon Reinactment Society and more...
Man or Astro-Man? at Bowery Ballroom in 2010 (more by Nathaniel Shannon)
Sci-fi surf punks Man or Astro-Man? will be bringing their costume-filled shows back on the road for multiple strings of US and European dates, beginning later this month through September...
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...
As mentioned, Florida's great Jacuzzi Boys are going on a tour next month with the re-energized Man, Or Astro-Man?. That tour includes two stops in NYC: Mercury Lounge on June 20 (sold-out) and Brooklyn Bowl on June 21 (still tickets)...
Deerhunter took a long time setting up, and a long time scuffling through a needlessly elaborate twinkle-rock atmospheric intro, but at their peak they've got an impeccably sharp sound that cuts through the self-conscious drone from the rest of the weekend...
As discussed, Man or Astro-man? will be on the road with Jacuzzi Boys as part of a set of US dates that will take them from coast-to-coast, including stops at Austin Psych Fest and in NYC twice for a sold-out Mercury Lounge on June 20 and Brooklyn Bowl on June 21 (tickets)...