So Cow

"Market hotel busted by twenty cops!" - The Smith Westerns Saturday night's Smith Westerns show at Market Hotel got cut short thanks to a group of cops that showed and told everyone to leave (possibly due to a noise complaint, possibly due to "business inspection", maybe because The Smith Westerns were peeing all over the place, or possibly just because the cops felt like shutting it down)...

DOWNLOAD: Beaters - Fishage (MP3) DOWNLOAD: Nodzzz - True to Life (MP3) DOWNLOAD: Dom - Jesus (MP3) DOWNLOAD: Golden Girls - Newports (MP3) The Soft Pack @ Cake shop in Feb (more by Gabi Porter) The Soft Pack are here again, the first real shows in town they've played since releasing their debut album on Kemado: tonight (3/31) at Maxwell's, tomorrow (4/1) at Mercury Lounge, and Saturday (4/3) at Music Hall of Williamsburg...

DOWNLOAD: Harlem - Friendly Ghost (MP3) DOWNLOAD: Christmas Island - Bed Island (MP3) DOWNLOAD: North Highlands - Sugar Lips (MP3) It's a good week in New York for lovers of no-muss-no-fuss garage rock -- there's a lot of it in town...

DOWNLOAD: So Cow in the Sitting Room: Covers EP#2 (Zip) If you missed Ireland's So Cow when he toured last summer, he's coming back in February for a six week North American tour, including two stops in New York: Feb 13 at Market Hotel with Grooms and Frankie & the Outs, and Feb 14 at Cake Shop. He...

The '80s-era indie power-pop band The Primitives have reformed and will be playing The Bell House on May 8. Tickets are on sale now. The band, fronted by platinum blonde Tracy Tracy, was best known for their hit "Crash" which was inescapable on modern rock radio in 1988 and has since been covered by nearly every pop punk band in existence...

Kurt Vile fit three shows into a recent two-day NYC trip. The first was a solo performance at an invite-only party at Public Assembly early Tuesday night (11/17)...

"I aim to sum up something so neatly that my friend Muiris will go, 'Ah, nicely said,'" So Cow main man Brian Kelly told the blog Hi-Fi Popcorn last year...

Chris La Putt's pictures on the wall of MHOW () I'm gonna keep this Sunday (6/14) post short and sweet, or try to. First a couple announcements...

DOWNLOAD: Fol Chen - No Wedding Cake (MP3) DOWNLOAD: Fol Chen - Cable TV (Liars remix) (MP3) DOWNLOAD: An Horse - Camp Out (MP3) DOWNLOAD: An Horse Postcards (MP3) DOWNLOAD: Telekenisis - Coast of Carolina (MP3) DOWNLOAD: Esser - Headlock (MP3) While for many area music fans (especially ones, like me, who live in Williamsburg or Greenpoint) the Northside Festival is going to be the main attraction (by guide to Day One, HERE), there are a lot of other things going on...

DOWNLOAD: So Cow - Cassablanca (MP3) DOWNLOAD: So Cow - Shackleton (MP3) DOWNLOAD: Free Energy - Dream City (MP3) DOWNLOAD: Diehard - Christine (MP3) If you missed So Cow's four-night run at NYC last month, you're going to get one more chance to see them before he heads back to Ireland -- Monday, June 15 at the Bell House...