Phantom Family Halo

Young Widows at Le Poisson Rouge, 2013 (more by Caroline Harrison) Though Young Widows have only been around since 2006 and only have three LPs under their belts, they already feel like something of an institution -- noisy rock music is becoming increasingly popular, and their ventures into the field have been as strong as anyone's...

The Lou Reed tributes keep coming. Two of them just happened, including the one at Rodeo Bar on Wednesday (11/20) and the one with Jeffrey Lewis, Dawn Landes, and others at the Jalopy Theatre last night (11/21)...

Browse our full NYC show calendar for all of tonight's shows. Here are some highlights... Huey Lewis And The News @ Seaside Summer Concerts (FREE) While it was never really hip to be square, it does seem like a fun evening to catch Huey Lewis & The News performing their mega-platinum 1983 LP, Sports, in its entirety by the beach at Coney Island...

Acid Mothers Temple at Knitting Factory (more by Greg Cristman)Acid Mothers Temple & The Melting Paraiso U.F.O. are Tsuyama Atsushi : bass, voice, cosmic joker Higashi Hiroshi : synthesizers, dancin'king Shimura Koji : drums latino cool Tabata Mitsuru : guitar, guitar synthesizer, maratab Kawabata Makoto : guitar, speed guru with Justin "God" Waters : godAcid Mothers Temple & The Melting Paraiso U......

UPDATE: Okkervil River added! DOWNLOAD: Fat Tony - Wife Plot (MP3) As you know, BrooklynVegan is taking over ALL THREE STAGES at connecting Austin venues Hotel Vegas & Volstead for FOUR DAYS STRAIGHT this week, and it's all 100% FREE (no RSVP or badges either)...

Evan Patterson will step out of his role as honcho for Young Widows to front Old Baby, a new project featuring members that have served time with Slint, Shipping News, Phantom Family Halo, and many other projects...

DOWNLOAD: Phantom Family Halo - "White Hot Gun" (MP3) The tribute to Brian Eno's Here Come the Warm Jets went down at Joe's Pub on January 8 to a sold out audience (that included Bradford Cox)...

In 1974, following his departure from Roxy Music, Brian Eno released his first solo album, Here Come the Warm Jets. The album (and its followup) is probably his most similar to the art rock of Roxy Music, before Brian began experimenting with soundscapes and eventually created some of our most interesting ambient music...

Nothing like waiting for the last minute! Please join us for a somewhat low key affair this Thursday (10/20) afternoon at Knitting Factory in Brooklyn for an all ages, FREE, afternoon show featuring:12:30 Yellow Ostrich (Barsuk) 1:15 Still Corners (Sub Pop) 2:00 Hundred Visions (unsigned) 2:45 Forest Fire (FatCat) 3:15 BOBBY (Partisan) 4:00 Main Attrakionz (Mishka)That's six free bands (and we might add one more)...

Phantom Family Halo and Fielded will team up for a string of dates that will include a special "quiet side set" for the former at Death By Audio on July 31...