Mercury Lounge

New Zealand's Fazerdaze are on their first, albeit short, North American tour, supporting the this year's debut album, Morningside which she played all of at Mercury Lounge on Wednesday night...

Bowery Presents/AEG confirms they are parting ways with the LES establishments.

A 24-block chunk of the Lower East Side, bordered by East Houston, Allen, Delancey and Essex has been dubbed by some as "Hell Square" for its abundance of bars and hard-partying crowds...

Ben Watt noted that his current tour through U.S. and Canada was nearly cancelled just a few days before the shows were to begin as his voice was going during rehearsals in Virginia. Fortunately...

Toronto band Weaves is now streaming their self-titled debut album which is out this Friday (6/17)...

Bowery Presents' venues switched from Ticketweb to its owner Ticketmaster a long time ago, but two of their venues, Bowery Ballroom and Mercury Lounge, will soon switch to Ticketfly, reports Billboard. Ticketfly, which was bought by Pandora last year, is also the ticket seller for SummerStage, Baby's All Right, The Bell House, Port Chester's Capitol Theatre, and other venues in the NYC area... Rea

Daniel Martin Moore releases his new album, Golden Age, on October 9 via Sofaburn Records (pre-order). Past collaborator and My Morning Jacket frontman Jim James produced it, and JIm appears in Daniel's brand new ...

Tits of Clay played small NYC club Mercury Lounge three times already. The first show completely slipped my radar until I heard afterwards that Neil Patrick Harris performed multiple Hedwig songs on stage with them in the very small space, to warm up for his role as Hedwig on Broadway (watch video below)...

It's always exciting trying to figure out who a 'Special Guest' is playing a show, especially a show at an intimate venue like Mercury Lounge in Manhattan where a 'Special Guest' just so happens to be playing this Sunday night...

You may have heard that yesterday (5/22) a water main ruptured and caused a giant sinkhole on Houston St. outside Katz's Deli which flooded their basement (but didn't cause them to close), affected other nearby business, and caused both shows at Mercury Lounge to move to new venues...