Saturday’s NYC-area shows include Sun Ra Arkestra, Dawn Richard and Spencer Zahn, Irreversible Entanglements, They Might Be Giants, Incendiary, and more.
Tonight's NYC-area shows include Parquet Courts, Angel Du$t, "Slate Day" podcast fest, The Soul Rebels, Ibeyi, The Mavericks, Limp Wrist, Remo Drive, and more.
Plus: Feels, Underdog, Hirs, Stereolab's first US tour in a decade, The Lonely Island's first-ever tour, Craig Finn, Stephen Malkmus, and more tour-related news.
New Jersey label Tripsquad Records is a new label launched by former M.O.D. guitarist Tim McMurtrie. The debut release for the label is the Just For Us Hardcore Kids compilation, which includes young bands and newer bands with members of veteran bands. As for the veterans, it includes Tim's current band Full Scale Riot, plus Truth & Rights (members of Leeway), Dead Blow Hammer (ex-Agnostic Front), and Huge (members of Underdog)...
The annual Afropunk festival in Brooklyn's Commodore Park happens this year on August 27 & 28, and since we last spoke, the lineup has been expanded. Among the additions is British singer Laura Mvula, whose great new album The Dreaming Room is out now...
Sense Field guest vocalists will include Garrett Klahn (Texas is the Reason), Ari Katz (Lifetime), Richie Birkenhead (Into Another, Underdog), Jeff Caudill (Gameface), Popeye (Farside), and more.
Dez Cadena (Black Flag/FLAG, Misfits) was recently diagnosed with cancer and a GoFundMe campaign was set up for him, and now a benefit show is going down for him this Saturday (4/30) at Brighton Bar in Long Branch, NJ. Dez is performing in two of the bands, Dez Cadena & The Buzz Aldrin Trio and Jon Caspi & The First Gun, and other sets include...