The Cant Tells

Beach Slang covered The Replacements' 'Pleased to Meet Me' at Knit, brought out Craig Finn (pics, video)

Yesterday, Beach Slang announced a new album, the day after coming to NYC to cover The Replacements’ Pleased to Meet Me in full at Knitting Factory…

Beach Slang covering The Replacements' 'Pleased to Meet Me' in full in NYC

Beach Slang, who are not broken up, have no secrets about their love for The Replacements, who they cover at most of their shows. They’re now taking those covers a step further, by playing The Replacements’ entire 1987 album Pleased to Meet Me in full…

McKibbin Lofts partially vacated, Deli 10th anniversary show w/ DJ Soul Slinger & more moved to Brooklyn Fireproof

UPDATE: The McKibbin Loft vacate notices mentioned below have now caused The Deli 10th Anniversary party to move to Brooklyn Fireproof. Details TBA…

What's going on Thursday? (Lee Fields, NYC Popfest, Death of Samantha, Failure, LE1F, Rudimental, Downtown Boys & more)

Lee Fields @ ACL Fest 2012 (more by Glen Brown) You can browse our full NYC show calendar for all of tonight’s shows, but here are some highlights…

Raccoon Fighter ready new LP, release new video, playing shows including Holy Smokes! fest at Silent Barn this weekend

Garage rock, as most of us have come to know it, hasn’t been a genre that NYC has bred that much of in the last 10 years. Maybe it’s the lack of actual garages but we tend to leave that to folk in San Francisco, Austin, Seattle and other points…

upcoming Low Fat Getting High shows (2 w/ The Can't Tells)

Low Fat Getting High at Cake Shop in May (more by Chris Gersbeck) Brooklyn punks Low Fat Getting High recently released their new EP, Bad Yoga, which as I said before, “kicks off with three tracks of menacing, breakneck-speed punk, and culminates in a fourth track of Bleach-style noise and sludge…

Slow Warm Death playing with Hospital Ships tonight, with Destroy This Place later

Brooklyn garage punks Slow Warm Death (fronted by John Galm ), who we recently profiled, have a few local shows coming up, including one tonight…