Pomegranates

Cincinatti quartet Pomegranates are back with their fourth album, Heaven, which came out this week on Modern Outsider Records. Their last album, One of Us, was one of my favorites of 2010 and I'm happy to report that the new album keeps up the quality...

Tickets are still on sale for the official BV Northside showcase at Music Hall of Williamsburg (6/15) with Caveman, Frankie Rose, and two more TBA...

DOWNLOAD Laura Stevenson & the Cans - Master of Art (MP3) Screaming Females at Barbarella (more by Tim Griffin) Screaming Females, who just completed a run of shows that brought them to Santos Party and Maxwell's, and who will be playing Culture Shock up at SUNY Purchase in April, will head out on tour in June with Lemuria and headliner Against Me...

DOWNLOAD: Aloha - Moonless March (MP3) DOWNLOAD: Aloha - Waterwheel (MP3) "Moonless March" is possibly most in your face, immediate song Aloha has ever written...

Au Revoir Simone have spent the better part of 2009 working on, promoting and touring in support of their second album, Still Light, Still Night, wrapping things up -- for now, at least -- with a Brooklyn show at the Bell House on October 24 (tickets), which is part of the CMJ Music Marathon...

As previously warned, single day XX Merge festival tickets went on sale today, and like the five-day passes did before them, they sold right out...

DOWNLOAD: Winter Gloves - Smells Like Teen Spirit (MP3) DOWNLOAD: Winter Gloves - Let Me Drive (MP3) DOWNLOAD: Pomegranates - Corriander (MP3) Winter Gloves, who got stuck at the border when they were supposed to play here last month, are coming back to the US for a short tour in May, including a May 13 stop at Mercury Lounge...

DOWNLOAD: Wye Oak - Warning (MP3) Andy Stack of Wye Oak @ Pianos (more by Kyle Dean Reinford) Baltimore duo Wye Oak (Jenn Wasner and Andy Stack) is set to play two NYC dates during its month-long tour, which kicks things off at the Bell House on Tuesday, April 14th (tix on sale)...