The Soft Moon

The 2015 Primavera Sound Festival goes down in Barcelona, Spain from May 28 – 30. We knew The Strokes and recently reunited shoegazers Ride were playing and now the line-up is being announced via the festival’s mobile app, which is a not-so fun 8-bit game you have to play to reveal names…

The Soft Moon‘s new album, Deeper, is out at the end of March and if you haven’t checked out first single, “Black,” you can stream it below…

Austin Psych Fest 2014 (more by Tim Griffin) The annual Austin Psych Fest, which they’ve renamed “Austin Psych Fest presents Levitation” (more on that below), happens this year from May 8-10 at the Carson Creek Ranch…

Austin Psych Fest 2014 (more by Tim Griffin) Austin Psych Fest is returning for its eighth year in 2015 from from May 8-10 at the Carson Creek Ranch…

Luis Vasquez is back with his third album as The Soft Moon. Titled Deeper, Vasquez made the record in Italy with producer Maurizio Baggio and marks a bit of a course-correction from the driving, motoroik synthrock of The Soft Moon’s first two LPs…

Pop. 1280 at Public Assembly in 2012 (more by Erez Avissar) NYC post-punks Pop. 1280 have announced that they will release the followup to 2012’s The Horror with a new album, Imps of Perversion, on August 6 via Sacred Bo…

Caveman @ BVCMJ 2012 (more by Dominick Mastrangelo) Yo La Tengo @ Prospect Park, 2012 (more by Jessica Amaya) today in NYC * AraabMUZIK @ Output * Rodriguez @ Town Hall * Holly Near @ Joe’s Pub * Jon Madof @ The Stone * Yo La Tengo @ The Kitchen * ABSU, Krallice @ Saint Vitus * Austra (DJ Set) @ Le Baron * John Hodgman @ Union Hall * Sky White Tiger @ Manhattan Inn * Pyyramids, MisterWives @ Mercury Lounge * Xray Eyeballs, Lodro, Valleys @ Union Pool * Beardyman, Alex English @ Highline Ballroom * Camera2, Fan-Tan, Teenage Kick @ Bowery Electric * John Medeski, Lakecia Benjamin @ Le Poisson Rouge * Houndmouth, The Ballroom Thieves @ Mercury Lounge * Caveman, Lucius, Pure Bathing Culture @ Webster Hall * Young Man, Emil & Friends, Friend Roulette @ Glasslands * Squid and Toad, The Dang-It Bobby’s @ Pete’s Candy Store * Joe Boyd’s Way To Blue: A Tribute to Nick Drake @ Joe’s Pub * The Black Angels, Allah-Las, Elephant Stone @ The Bell House * Tenement, Big Ups, Lame Drivers, Big French @ Shea Stadium * Blu, TiRon & Ayomari, Stoop Kids, Adrian Lau @ Public Assembly * Lianna La Havas, Jamie N Commons @ Music Hall of Williamsburg * Little Gold, Todd Killings, Radical Dads, Trepanning @ Death By Audio * Taj Mahal Trio, London Souls, Eric Krasno (of Soulive) @ Brooklyn Bowl * Love 666, Autodrone, The Charles Warren Orchestra @ The Studio at Webster Hall * Norwegian Arms, Night Panther, Black Light Dinner Party, Night Shining @ Pianos * Morning, I am the Heat, M.R. Smit…

As mentioned, White Fence‘s new album, Cyclops Reap, is out this week on John Dwyer’s Castle Face label. Tim Presley doesn’t seem to be running out of songs and this is another quality batch of paisley-scented psychedelia…

Tamaryn is DJing at New York’s Museum of Modern Art on Sunday evening (4/7) as part of a PopRally event called “Abstract Currents.” Against projections of one-minute videos submitted by the public, Tamryn will provide a “hypnotic soundtrack to the collectively built abstract videoscape…

Austin Psych Fest 2013 Austin Psych Fest is less than a month away (April 26 to 28), and the full line up is out (on the flyer above and listed below) as are the breakdowns by day…