Obits

So the Mudhoney show at Bowery Ballroom on July 6 with Pampers is the first date of a short East Coast run following their European tour. Those dates conclude with a second NYC show at The Bell House on July 12 with their Sub Pop pals Obits…

Drive Like Jehu reunited to play their first show in 19 years in August. It happened in San Diego with a special pipe organ, and they claimed it was just for one show, but I guess someone convinced them to rethink that part…

Twenty-five years to the day since the band’s final gig, Soulside took the stage at Brooklyn’s Saint Vitus. Over two nights, from the rumbling opening bass riff of “God City” to the lean punk of “Under the Glare,” the band draws from their entire body of work…

The fifth annual Brooklyn Rock Lottery took place on Saturday (12/6) at Baby’s All Right. Members of bands convened that morning, with names being drawn out of a hat by five drummers to make the ad-hoc bands, who then spent the rest of the day writing and rehearsing original songs that would be performed that night at the venue…

Brooklyn garage punk greats Obits played a one-off in their hometown this past Saturday (11/22) at Brooklyn Night Bazaar with Survival Knife, Hungry Ghost and Pink Avalanche…

The fifth annual Brooklyn Rock Lottery is taking place this year on December 6 at Baby’s All Right. In case you’re not already familiar, here’s the premise:The Rock Lottery premise is simple, but effective…

Obits have a new video for “Machines” from last year’s Beds & Bugs which makes its premiere in this post. The song is one of the ones guitarist Sohrab Habibion wrote and sang, and he offers a few thoughts on it and the video:

“Machines” is the only tune I sing on our last album, Bed & Bugs(https://www.sub…

Union Pool’s free Summer Thunder series is underway, happening every Saturday afternoon through the warmer months. The series, curated by Other Music this year, just announced it’s July lineup which is pretty solid:
JULY 5: Widowspeak
JULY 12: The Men / Survival / Mercury Rising
JULY 19: Obits
JULY 25: Jonathan Toubin + Special GuestsMore openers for some of those shows to be announced soon…

King Khan & the Shrines spent the weekend in NYC, playing Le Poisson Rouge on Friday (6/6) and Music Hall of Williamsburg on Saturday (6/7), part of their tour with fellow Canadians Red Mass. Pi…

Montreal’s Red Mass are a mercurial lot. Led by onetime CPC Gangbangs member Roy Vucino (aka Choyce), the line-up has expanded and contracted but the MO remains the same: pysch-punk with a flair for arty drama…