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Vivid Low Sky is the mostly solo, mostly post-rock (and entirely instrumental) project of David Koslowski, who you might know from ’90s noise rock outfit Liquor Bike…

Two Brooklyn-based bands are heading out on a short East Coast tour together: Tape Deck Mountain and Slavve. The tour starts and ends with hometown shows: Cake Shop on September 27 with Writer, and wrapping up at Shea Stadium on October 3 with Gondoliers and headliners Weird Womb…

NYC duo WRITER (brothers James and Andy Ralph), who released their album, Brotherface, last year, followed that up with a new 7″ via Nineteen98 records over the summer…

UK indiepop quartet Fear of Men flew over to NYC just to play the Summer Solstice edition (6/21) of this year’s Seaport Music Festival. After two Fridays of dodgy weather, you coudn’t have asked for a nicer night, and Fear of Men’s gentle jangle was the perfect accompaniment…

Pterodactyl at Glasslands in 2009 (more by Lori Bally) Spastic Brooklyn noise rockers Pterodactyl haven’t played a NYC show in about a year, and TONIGHT (4/8) at Mercury Lounge, they will play “a stripped-down, vocal-heavy two piece set, featuring material from throughout their ten years of songwriting in New York City…

James and Andy Ralph make music collectively as Writer and the Brooklyn-based sibs self-released Brotherface back in October 2012 and it’s loaded with dense, gritty, anthemic songs…

DOWNLOAD: METZ – Headache (MP3) As mentioned before and worth doing so again, Toronto’s METZ are on tour and in town, with two chances to see them in NYC: tonight (8/31) at Pianos with Birds & Batteries, Writer and ILLUMNTR (tickets); and then Saturday (9/1) at Death by Audio with Pop……

Ava Luna at BV Holiday Party last month/year (more by Jessica Amaya) Wintersleep are going on a short North American tour this month which ends in 2 NYC dates happening on January 24 at Mercury Lounge with Pretty & Nice and January 25 at Glasslands with ARMS and Writer…

Cults will play a free in-store at Other Music on June 6 at 8pm, the day before their self titled debut drops. They kick off a tour with Guards and Writer one day later in Philly, and then return to NYC the day after that to play The Box on June 8 (though no details were ever announced about this show and it was removed from their public tour dates…

Friendly Fires @ Bowery Ballroom in Feb (more by Chris La Putt) Friedly Fires kick off a North American tour in Philly on May 24th. Joining them on that tour, including at their sold out May 25th Webster Hall show, will be Wise Blood (who maybe you caught open for Wu Lyf earlier this month)…