The Middle East

”We vehemently oppose rape culture and we are feminists,” Ezra Furman says. ”We have some control over who we do business with. So we have had to withdraw from performing at Sonia in solidarity with the boycotters and those who have endured a toxic culture at these venues.”

As recently mentioned, The Middle East are very unfortunately ending their run as a band (for now anyway). They had just recently released the full length I Want That You Are Always Happy...

The Middle East @ BV-SXSW 2010 (more by Tim Griffin) After it was reported that Australian band The Middle East announced their break-up from the stage at Splendour in the Grass, the band issued this statement:TO WHOM IT MAY CONCERN : writing to inform you that we're ceasing...

DOWNLOAD: The Middle East - Hunger Song (MP3) The Middle East @ Mercury Lounge in May (more by Dominick Mastrangelo) It's been a minute since we've heard from Australian band The Middle East...

words & The exhaustive stateside touring schedule for The Middle East landed in New York this week. Their two opening sets for Mumford and Sons (MHOW & Webster Hall) were followed by a BrooklynVegan-presented, sold-out headlining spot at the Mercury Lounge on Wednesday...

I'm not sure when or how it happened, but sometime in the past year Mumford & Sons got big. From Cleveland to Phoenix, the British four-piece has sold out the vast majority of their upcoming tour dates, and their two shows this week in New York were no exception...

LCD Soundsystem @ Webster Hall in April (more by Ryan Muir) tonight in NYC * Alice in Chains in NJ * Todd Barry @ Carolines * Josh Ritter @ Town Hall * Ween @ Starland Ballroom * The Proclaimers @ City Winery * ALO, Chris Velan @ Brooklyn Bowl * Visqueen, Stuyvesant @ Maxwell's * Val Emmich, Cooper @ Mercury Lounge * LCD Soundsystem, Holy Ghost...

Mumford & Sons and the Middle East played to a full house last night, 5/17, at Music Hall of Williamsburg. As the night's only opener, the Middle East (a band on their first US tour who just played their first North American shows period around SXSW in March) had a bit of pressure on them to hold the attention of an audience primed for Mumford's more uptempo fare...

The third and final round of the Coachella Music & Arts Festival was funky, and not just because the port-a-potties reeked. Keeping a loose theme every day (see Friday & Saturday), Sunday focused on relentless rhythm and groovy basslines...

"One of the best pavement concerts ever... At the fox in pomona... 30 songs u missed it..." - SANDY EGGO "2 encores, ALL of Slanted (pretty much), and new lyrics to The Hexx...