Punks on Mars

No Sleep Records was responsible for many of the year's great punk, emo, and hardcore (and other genres in that realm) releases this year, and the label's presence increased in the indie rock community thanks to a new love affair between emo and indie...

Father John Misty @ Lollapalooza 2013 (more by Dana Yavin) It's the last day of the 2013 CMJ Music Marathon and there's so much good music going on everywhere, you should really go and and see something...

DOWNLOAD: Young Boys - Love Hits (MP3) After a 7" in 2011 and a couple tracks released online last year, Brooklyn's Young Boys are set to release their debut album, New York Sun, next week (2/26)...

Since you are so busy with Dum Dum Girls, do you find it difficult to balance both projects? Yeah, it's really difficult actually. With Dum Dum Girls, we have a lot of stuff going on, but it's still hard to kind of perceive what we're going to be doing next year, for instance, and with a band you kind of have to know when you're going to be free way in advance--like six to nine months--and that's kind of why I have to do more DIY stuff, because then I can just do it when I have time and don't have to plan with a company or anything...

DOWNLOAD: BLURRY BITTERS - A CAKE SHOP BEST OF 2012 MIXTAPE (MP3) Eddy Current Suppression Ring @ Cake Shop, June 2010 (more by Diana Wong) One of the biggest, most genuine music fans I know is Andy from Ludlow Street indie rock club Cake Shop...

Punks on Mars will release their new album, Bad Expectations, next week (10/30) on Zoo Music (the label run by Dee Dee of Dum Dum Girls and Brandon of Crocodiles)...

Japanese-born/Brooklyn-residing post-punk trio ZZZ's were formed this past March with Youkaku (guitar/vox), Yukary (bass/vox), and Lyn (drums), all of whom were members of Hystoic Vein, who broke up in October 2011...

Royal Baths are opening for Moon Duo tomorrow night (10/5) at Knitting Factory and the show will be their first with a new line-up that includes Lesley Hann of Friends on bass (who seems to have left that group, along with Matthew Molnar, if their most recent 285 Kent show is any indication)...

Crocodiles at 4 Knotts 2012 (more by Chris La Putt) Crocodiles' tour rolls through NYC tonight (Friday, 9/28) for a show at Bowery Ballroom...

Philadelphia's Bleeding Rainbow played Brooklyn Bowl last night with Oberhofer and Heavenly Beat and had a pretty good set, rocking more of a shoegaze-meets-X vibe now that they're a four-piece, playing songs mostly from their terrific new album, Yeah Right, which recently got moved from an October 2012 release to January 2013...