Cold Cave with Black Marble and Choir Boy at the Sunset Tavern
One of my favorite newer post-punk groups, Black Marble, faced some unfortunate technical difficulties with a malfunctioning synthesizer — a fact which the band members seemed…
Put Your Back N 2 It
This album, Perfume Genius's second, sounds like a still-moment widescreen car-crash at first -- a horrifying accident beautifully caught by gleaming, descending keys and soft…
Got any Capitol Hill Block Party line-up guesses / rumors? My money is on Thurston Moore…
{Photo: Ari Marcopoulos, 2011} I just heard a song from the new Thurston Moore album {set to be released on 5/24 on Matador} and it's…
Somebody pinch us: we've got Pavement tickets to give away!
If you're anything like the rest of the free world, you haven't seen much of Pavement since sometime in the late nineties. Recording, releasing, and…
Win a dream date with the New Pornographers
OK, so it's not exactly as if you and Carl Newman or Neko Case will intimately be sharing a bottle of wine and discussing your…
What to do after the TIG New Pornographers listening party tonight
Tonight is kind of special, and not in a weak beer tasting way. There's tons of super fun socializing stuff to do! First there's the…
Win your way in to see Mission of Burma at the Crocodile
Fact: everyone loves Mission of Burma. Amiright? Proof: if you happened to be in Boston on October 4, less than a month ago, you…
New Spiral Stairs video: Stolen Pills
[video:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XMyOH4Rnweg] Spiral Stairs, aka Scott Kannberg, guitarist for the reuniting Pavement, has a new album out on Tuesday called The Real Feel (Matador Records). Above…
Bated Breath for new Cave Singers release
This may be a little early. And I'm definitely too excited about this. But, Beach House, The Cave Singers first mp3 for their album coming…
Fuckbook
Only Yo La Tengo could come up with a side project with a name as spectacular as Condo Fucks. Only Yo La Tengo could come…