Thunder and Lightning
mems of Yeasayer, Vampire Weekend, Woods, ASDIG, Holy Ghost, more playing Dave Harrington holiday show
Producer and polymath Dave Harrington is once again throwing his Holiday Spectacular in NYC this year, joined by many prominent indie musicians. The third annual show goes down at Brooklyn Bowl on December 18, and the guest list includes Alex Frankel (Holy Ghost), Anand Wilder (Yeasayer), Chris Tomson (Vampire Weekend), Jen Goma (A Sunny Day […]
Peter Silberman, Widowspeak, BDOD, Beach Fossils, Suckers, DOM, Beverly, TEEN, more playing final Glasslands shows
Peter Silberman (right) w/ The Antlers earlier this month (more by Greg Cristman)
Death by Audio is now closed for good, and as you’ve probably heard by now it’s only about another month before its S…
ARMS cover Guided by Voices & more on new LP (listen), playing shows, including Rooftop FIlms closing party
ARMS at MHOW in March (more by Amanda Hatfield)
Brooklyn band ARMS (the current project of former Harlem Shakes guitarist Todd Goldstein) will be paying tribute to some of their influences — specifically Broadcast, Elliott Smith, Guided by Voices, They Might Be Giants, Matthew Dear, Thunder & Lightning, The Faces and Rufus Wainwright — on a new covers album, Backwards Record, due out September 2 via Paper Garden Reco…
The Harlem Shake brought attention back to the Harlem Shakes (but no plans for a reunion)
Not long after releasing catchy gem Technicolor Health in 2009 (stream it at Spotify), NYC band The Harlem Shakes,broke up. The album didn’t break them through to the other side and there were many other life options calling their name…
ARMS adds a show, shares members with ILLUMNTR
DOWNLOAD: ILLUMNTR – “Gulf Hymn” (MP3)
ARMS at Mercury Lounge in 2011 (more by Jessica Amaya)
ARMS, who played Glasslands last night (1/25) with Wintersleep, and whose frontman Todd Goldstein opens for John Roderick at Mercury Lounge this week (1/28), also just announced that they’ll play Mercury Lounge on February 28…
ARMS played Pianos w/ Hospitality, Radical Dads & Translations (pics & video)
‘ residency at Pianos was a super strong line-up of local talent and one of the better overall shows I’ve been to in a long time.
Much of ARMS’ set was new songs from the band’s proper debut, a “sci-fi break up album” that’s due, hopefully, this summer…
an end of 2009 interview w/ Todd Goldstein of ARMS & Harlem Shakes (RIP)
DOWNLOAD: Arms – Tiger Tamer (MP3)
DOWNLOAD: Arms – Kids Aflame (MP3)
Arms (photo by Elizabeth Weinberg)
Normally, this is where a little bio of the band would go, but Todd pretty much does that himself in answering the first question of our end-of-year survey…
