Sam Mickens

Extra Life and Parenthetical Girls are releasing a tour-only split 12" in support of an upcoming West Coast run together. The run is part of Extra Life's tour with Sam Mickens (The Dead Science, Xiu Xiu) that ends in NYC on July 30 at Silent Barn...

Delorean @ Coco66 in March (more by Ryan Muir) today in NYC * Bill Frisell @ Village Vanguard * Hannibal Buress @ Knitting Factory * Autolux, This Will Destroy You @ Maxwell's * Dominique Young Unique, Smalltown DJs @ Brooklyn Bowl * Michael Jackson's Birthday Party in Prospect Park w/ DJ Spinna * Delorean, Dominique Young Unique, ...

Brooklyn's new dance party, "Peoples Temple," here to wrecking-ball cultural doldrums and ignite the fires of tomorrow! Debuting THURSDAY AUGUST 19TH and monthly thereafter, PEOPLES TEMPLE will inhabit the red-light interior of Williamsburg's most cracking young venue, Bruar Falls {245 Grand Ave...

Dear citizens of America & the Earth, On this day, April 20th, 2010, I officially issue a challenge, on behalf of myself and my Ecstatic Showband, to Ms...

Liars @ Bowery Ballroom the other day (more by Erez Avissar) tonight in NYC * Fol Chen @ Sound Fix * The Morning After Girls @ Living Room * John Wesley Harding house show in Staten Island * Ludicra, Krallice, Castavet, Atakke @ Europa * Liars, Fol Chen @ Music Hall of Williamsburg * Sam Mickens' Ecstatic Showband & Revue @ Union Pool * John Wesley Harding & the English Uk @ Mexicali Live in Teaneck, NJ * Lazarus, Unbunny, Tiger Saw, The Wailing Wall @ Death By Audio * Oneida, Trans Am, Nice Nice, Jonas Reinhardt @ Knitting Factory Brooklyn * The Music of Louis Andriessen w/ ACME and Eric Huebner @ (Le) Poisson Rouge * Eternal Summers, Beachniks, Honey Dos, Maine Coons, Mashmallows @ Coco 66 * Polite Sleeper, Uninhabitable Mansions, The Charming Youngsters, North Highlands @ Glasslands * Truman Peyote, Weekends, Birthdays, Total Slacker, Philip Seymour Hoffman, Cop Magnet @ Surreal Estate More on some of these shows in This Week in Indie...

Sam Mickens (by Elizabeth Leitzell) The Dead Science's Sam Mickens pulls together a rotating crew of some of NYC's most talented jazz regulars to form his Sam Mickens' Ecstatic Showband and Revue, a falsetto-fronted act that combines twisted bubblegum pop with the vocabulary of retro soul...

DOWNLOAD: Extra Life - (Pay Up) The Ladder(MP3) DOWNLOAD: Extra Life - Black Hoodie (MP3) Extra Life @ Glasslands (more by Lori Baily) Extra Life's new album Made Flesh is due out March 30...

Zs clapping On September 3rd, Glasslands hosted an eclectic lineup of Larkin Grimm, Extra Life, Zs and Liturgy. If you missed it, there are plenty of opportunities to see every band on the bill again...

Sam Hillmer (left) playing with Zs @ the Yard (more by Sarahana)You Are Here (The Maze) is a performance festival in a sculptural maze taking place at Williamsburg's Death By Audio from September 10 - October 2, 2009...

Remember Death By Audio's 12-hour benefit on July 25th for something called You Are Here: A Maze?Sam Hillmer & Laura Paris, who dubbed their art collaboration Trouble, had the first You Are Here festival in 2007, at 44th street between Sixth Avenue and Broadway...