As they do every year, Seattle radio station KEXP will be in NYC for CMJ broadcasting live and hosting free performances from some of this year's participating bands...
MINKS sophomore album, Tides End, was released this week via Captured Tracks. As mentioned, main man Sonny Kilfoyle makes an about-face from 2011's tunefully dour By the Hedge, this time bright, shimmery, wistful and loaded with extremely hummable pop songs...
Mac Demarco @ Savannah Stopover 2013 (more by Dominick Mastrangelo)If you could go back in time and give yourself one piece of advice right before the first two captured tracks releases...
MINKS are back with their second album, Tides End, which will be out August 6 on Captured Tracks. That's the cover art above. Made after main man Sonny Kilfoyle decamped to the East End of Long Island, the record is a marked deprature from MINKS' debut, trading in murky, reverbed production for sparkling, synth-heavy pop with catchy song after catchy song...
DIIV at Austin's Red 7 in April (more by Tim Griffin)
DIIV are about to hook up with Unknown Mortal Orchestra and Doldrums on their tour which kicks off this week...
Black Lips @ Bowery Ballroom in August (more by Diana Wong)
The Black Lips will be peforming live from NYC over the internet today, 10/27, at 2pm EST...
DOWNLOAD:Dive - "Sometime" (MP3)
Last Friday (10/7) at 285 Kent saw the busy-body Brooklyn bandDive support Friends with Night Manager, Heaven's Gate, Kevinz Gate and DJ Cassie Ramone...