Steep Leans

Saturday's NYC-area shows include Animal Collective, Ministry, Matt Pryor, Unsane, Slash, and more.

Thursday's NYC-area show options include Nation of Language, Goodie Mob, Surfbort, Snow Patrol, and more.

There was a time, in the years following the release of the documentary DiG!, where Brian Jonestown Massacre frontman Anton Newcombe seemed to be at war with the audience (who sometimes seemed only to be there to see the band fall apart onstage), avoiding their catchiest material in favor of long, droney druggy jams. These days, though, Newcombe (sporting some serious snow-white mutton chops) and the BJM are mostly in the crowd-pleasing business, both in song selection and delivering classically cranky banter/rants between songs...

Last year, Steep Leans toured with Wavves and put out their debut album Grips on Heat on Wavves' Ghost Ramp label. They've since filmed a 'Spare Room Sessions' video for "Colombia" off that album, a slow burning garage rocker. That video premieres here.

The Brooklyn multi-venue festival pulls in some big, big headliners this year.

Market Hotel's long-awaited reopening happens this weekend with a two-night celebration: Friday (1/22) with VIA APP, Kill Alters, Dreamcrusher, and Malory; and Saturday (1/23) with Guerilla Toss, PC Worship, Pill and just-announced "special guest" headliners A Place to Bury Strangers...

Brooklyn band Heaven's Gate are back with their second album, Woman at Night, which was released today (9/25) via Dull Tools. Like on their terrific debut album, the band whip together a variety of of noisy influences into their own whirlwind brand of rock that is aggressive, loud, tuneful, and cathartic...

Wavves' new album V comes out next week (10/2) via Warner Bros, and today they're releasing another single from it: "Pony." It's the calmest, least punky of all the singles we've heard from V so far, but still with plenty of the studio shine that the others all ...

Wavves, who have been promising two albums this year, have announced a tour with fellow with guitar bashers Twin Peaks. The tour includes a leg with Swimmers, followed by a leg with Steep Leans which hits NYC...