Still Flyin

Still Flyin' released 'Perfect Future' (listen), on East Coast tour, play NYC tonight w/ mems of Love Is All, Ladybug Transistor

Led, San Francisco’s Still Flyin’ has been around since the mid-’00s, more a collective than a band and featuring a revolving lineup that has, over the years, included Jens Lekman, members of Love is All, The Aislers Set, Versus, Ladybug Transistor, Architecture in Helsinki, and other groups…

What's going on Wednesday? (Jenny Lewis, Greg Dulli, Craig Finn, Shuggie Otis, Wilco, William Tyler, Talib Kweli & more)

You can browse our full NYC show calendar for all of tonight’s shows, but here are some highlights… Jenny Lewis, & The Watson Twins, M. Ward @ Beacon Theatre Ten years ago, Jenny Lewis teamed up with the Watson Twins to release Rabbit Fur C…

Masters of the Hemisphere return with new album & shows (MP3 premiere, CMJ & other tour dates too)

DOWNLOAD: Masters of the Hemisphere – Eggshell (MP3) After a nearly ten-year absence, Athens, GA indie pop quartet Masters of the Hempisphere are back with a new album, Maybe These Are the Breaks, that’s out October 4 on Kindercore/Magic Marker…

James Ausfahrt is in Love is All & in Brooklyn (MP3s)

DOWNLOAD: James Ausfahrt – Bad Detective (MP3) DOWNLOAD: James Ausfahrt – Keep on (MP3) DOWNLOAD: James Ausfahrt – Up all night (MP3) DOWNLOAD: James Ausfahrt – With me (MP3) Much more of a crooner than the singer of his other band Love is All (not that you would ever really call a woman a crooner), Sweden’s James Ausfahrt (he’s also in Still Flyin) has recorded over 100 songs in his home where he plays all instruments and touches on many different genres…

Vivian Girls label Wild World Records releasing Yellow Fever, Babies & Bossy -- VG & YF playing DBA & other dates

Austin’s understated, lovely Yellow Fever launched a short West Coast / South West tour last night in San Diego, and are also set — any day now — to release their debut album on Wild World Records, the label run…

Au Revoir Simone, David Lynch, Uninhabitable Mansions, Radical Dads & CMJ - tour dates, pictures, free music & more

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…

The Rifles - 2009 Tour Dates (3 NYC shows this week)

DOWNLOAD: The Rifles – The Great Escape (MP3) London band The Rifles are playing three shows in New York this weekend: an early show tonight (9/24) (before the Japandroids show in the same venue) and a late show tomorrow night (9/25) with Still Flyin at Mercury Lounge, then Saturday (9/26) at Union Hall with Mt…

Love Is All - new EPs & 2009 Tour Dates (some w/ Still Flyin')

DOWNLOAD: Still Flyin’ – The Hott Chord is Struck (MP3) Love Is All @ Market Hotel (more by Ryan Muir) Love Is All are coming back to the US this summer…

Crocodiles, Still Flyin, Thee Oh Sees, Tyvek, Late of the Pier & more in This Week in Indie

The post-SXSW music flood has yet to show relief and this week might actually be more jam-packed with goodness than last. Where to start? Kings of San Francisco’s fertile garage rock scene, Thee Oh Sees are back in town for two shows this weekend in what I’d have to call unlikely venues for the band…

Wire, Mogwai, and the rest of the pics from Sled Island 2008

DOWNLOAD: Mogwai – Folk Death 95 (MP3) I’m still trying to properly wrap my mind around (and recover from) the amazing performances (and blazing sun) I was able to experience at Sled Island…