Miniature Tigers

New York Press: You guys reunited last year and now you’ve got this new record. Tell me how it all happened. Get Up Kid Matt Pryor: The band broke up basically because we were sick of each other…

Freelance Whales @ Webster Hall – 12/15/10 (photo by Emily O’Brien) Freelance Whales headlined a tour-ending show at the rather large Webster Hall in NYC on Wednesday night, 12/15…

DOWNLOAD: The Get Up Kids – Pararelevant (MP3) DOWNLOAD: Get Up Kids – Regent’s Court (MP3) Reunited since 2008, The Get Up Kids have recorded their first studio album since 2004’s Guilt Show…

Freelance Whales break into song while waiting for that confounded L-train (more by Ryan Barkan) Freelance Whales are hitting the road two weeks from today for a string of dates with Minature Tigers…

DOWNLOAD: Au Revoir Simone – Another Likely Story (Neon Indian RMX) (MP3) Special guests are usually show highlights, and this time was no exception though Erika Forster‘s appearance on stage with Neon Indian on Governors Island was a bit marred by the fact that you could barely hear her at first…

Neon Indian in Austin in March (more by Bryan Bruchman) today in NYC * KISS @ Jones Beach * Congs For Brums @ The Stone * Roger Kleier’s El Pocho Loco @ The Stone * Dax Riggs, Motel Motel @ Mercury Lounge * Anamanaguchi, XXXChange @ Brooklyn Bowl * Psychic Ills, Cave, Prince Rama @ Cake Shop * Nite Jewel, The Samps, Blood Orange, ARP @ Glasslands * Rubblebucket, Pretty Good Dance Moves @ Brooklyn Bowl * Screaming Females, Big Soda, Nude Beach @ Death By Audio * The Girls at Dawn, Rayon Beach, Xray Eyeballs @ Bruar Falls * Chief, Frankie & The Outs, MINKS, Total Slacker @ Rock Yard * City of Ships, Constants, Vaste Burai, Wizardry @ The Acheron * Psychobuildings, Open Ocean, Jailbait, Mike Bones @ Union Pool * Wahoo Skiffle Crazies, The Young Empires, Jirapah @ The Rock Shop * Ball of Flame Shoot Fire, The Armchairs, The Lisps, Afuche @ Pianos * The Babies, Air Waves, Total Slacker, The Girls at Dawn, Hemlock Ersnt @ Silent Barn * Home Blitz, Fergus & Geronimo, Liquor Store, Pujol, Moonmen On The Moon, Man @ Don Pedro * Logjam, Alana Amram & The Rough Gems, Breedlove (Harry Nilssen Tribute Night) @ 92YTribeca * Inside Out, Merauder, Justice System, Razorblade Handgrenade, Vigilant Hotel, Activator @ Santos * Turkuaz, Chin Chin, Deadbeat Darling, Sa…

The Whitest Boy Alive @ Coachella 2010 (more by Rachell Carr) tonight in NYC * The Luyas secret show * The Specials @ Terminal 5 * Kings Go Forth, Rafter @ Mercury Lounge * Micachu & the Shapes, Mon Khmer @ Mercury Lounge * Sonos, Peter Bradley Adams @ (Le) Poisson Rouge * Capstan Shafts, USVS, Lame Drivers @ Public Assembly * Sunglasses, My Gold Mask, Lagoon, Neighbors @ Union Hall * The Thermals, Past Lives, The Tony Castles @ Brooklyn Bowl * The Whitest Boy Alive, Keepaway @ Music Hall of Williamsburg * The Midnight Sounds, Valleys, Sally Head, Psychic @ Glasslands * Kelis, Maluca, Skeet Skeet, Sammy Bananas @ Santos Party House * Apples in Stereo, Generationals, Laminated Cat @ Bowery Ballroom * Mixel Pixel, Hosannas, Unicornicopia, Hermit Thrushes @ Cake Shop * Jakob Dylan & Three Legs (with Neko Case & Kelly Hogan) @ Town Hall * MATA Festival w/ Ensemble Pamplemousse, Lisa Moore @ (Le) Poisson Rouge * Miniature Tigers, The Grates, The Stationary Set @ Knitting Factory Brooklyn * Amanda Diva, Apollo Heights, Black Thought, Styles P, Currensy @ Highline Ballroom * Mastodon, Between The Buried And Me, Baroness, Valient Thorr @ Starland Ballroom * Dusty & The Dreaming Spires, Atlantic/Pacific, The Oxygen Ponies, Cat Martino @ The Bell House Miniature Tigers headline a show at Knitting Factory tonight, which is one night before they open for The Morning Benders at Knitting Factory which is four nights before they go out on tour with Free Energy and Jukebox the Ghost, which is three days before they are back in NYC with that tour to play Bowery Ballroom The Grates open that show at Knitting Factory tonight…

Free Energy @ SXSW 2010 (more by Dominick Mastrangelo) There is much touring in DFA band Free Energy‘s future including that series of Daytrotter Barnstormer dates with Nathaniel Rateliff and others, the Pitchfork Festival, and three weeks on the road with Jukebox the Ghost which brings them to Bowery Ballroom on May 29th…

“The 2010 Lollapalooza line-up is official: Soundgarden, Green Day, Lady Gaga, Arcade Fire, The Strokes, and Phoenix will headline, joined by Social Distortion, MGMT, Jimmy Cliff, Hot Chip, and The Black Keys…