My Teenage Stride

This week: a lost album from Television Personalities, former The Loft frontman Pete Astor, the debut solo album from Jackson MacIntosh of Sheer Agony, and LP #3 from Scotland’s The Spook School.

In the wake of Tom Petty‘s untimely death, there have been multiple tributes to the rock legend, and there’s a few more coming up in NYC…

Sunday’s shows include a free Fela Kuti tribute in Central Park with Roy Ayers, A Place to Bury Strangers, Annie Hart, a Kinks tribute with Beverly and others, Mutual Benefit, Jonny Fritz/Cassandra Jenkins, and more.

Tonight’s NYC-area shows include Wreckless Eric & Joe Jack Talcum, Squarepusher’s Shobaleader One, Art of Rap w/ Raekwon & Ghostface, Ginuwine, Diarrhea Planet, and more.

“So with an eye towards the ideal politics of the hopefully-not-distant future (i.e. as a compromise), this is an instrumental version of the song I happen to be working on right now, it’s the last one still under construction and yes, that means the album is only finishing now.” – Charles Bissell

NYC loves Halloween and there’s no shortage of spooky action this year.

The Minneapolis indiepop band owe more than a little to twee punk icons Television Personalities.

NYC indiepop cult heroes My Favorite, who reformed a couple years ago, released a new 7″ single this week via Death Party Records and it’s only their second new single since getting back together. The A-side, “Christine Zero,” is energetic synthpop with a flair for drama, where b-side “Killed For Kicks” fall a little more […]

Perhaps better known for having members who’d end up in better known bands (Teenage Fanclub, Soup Dragons, Vaselines), Glasgow’s BMX Bandits — not unlike The Pooh Sticks — have played an important part in Scotland’s indie pop scene and have earned them cult status. (Kurt Cobain once said “If I could be in any other […]