New Build

New Build and Museum of Love‘s tour hit NYC last night (12/3) for a late show at Mercury Lounge. For those used to Pat Mahoney behind the drum kit (LCD Soundsystem, Hot Chip), seeing him behind a mic might be a bit of a shock…

New Build and Museum of Love begin their co-headlining tour this week, which hits NYC on Wednesday (12/3) at Mercury Lounge. (New Build also play Rough Trade on 12/4 but without MoL…

Hot Chip at Prospect Park in 2012 (more by Toby Tenenbaum) Hot Chip‘s Joe Goddard was just in NYC last week, and this coming week members Felix Martin and Al Doyle will be here with their other band New Build…

As mentioned, New Build (Al & Felix from Hot Chip’s other band) are playing NYC in December — 12/3 at Mercury Lounge and 12/4 at Rough Trade — and tickets are still available…

New Build, which features Al and Felix from Hot Chip, will release their second album, Pour it On, next week (11/11) via Sunday Best. It’s a little proggier (and less whimsical) than their other group, but no less beat-oriented…

Friday was the craziest day of SXSW in terms of sheer overload of people. Many of those people were very, very drunk and cared little about music…

today in NYC * Jovanotti @ Bowery Ballroom * Jackie Greene @ City Winery * The Danny Fox Trio @ Barbes * Hazel-Rah, Ruler @ Vaudeville Park * Sylvie Courvoisier Trio @ The Stone * Allman Brothers Band @ Beacon Theatre * Lemonade, Tezeo, Faith @ Brooklyn Bowl * Wolf…

DOWNLOAD: Razika – Eg Vetsje (MP3) DOWNLOAD: Razika – Nytt Pa Nytt (MP3) Welcome to Part 2 of this pre-SXSW edition of This Week in Indie (Part 1 HERE), which sees an insane amount of good show options over the next five days, even for New York which is never lacking for music options…

Check out the live feed from the event, below…

Hot Chip have signed to Domino Records who will put out the band’s fifth album, In Our Heads, which will be out June 12 in all the popular formats…