JAPANESE BREAKFAST LEFT SUMMERSTAGE SPELLBOUND
Indie pop priestess Michelle Zauner, AKA Japanese Breakfast, played a free show at Central Park’s Summerstage, and it proved to be the perfect incantation…
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ALVVAYS TAKES OVER SUMMERSTAGES ‘CANADA DAY’
Modern indie pop’s top dream masters Alvvays helped Central Park’s Summerstage celebrate Canada Day with all the proper petrol to take off to the…
THE OCEAN BLUE WASHED OVER ROUGH TRADE
The 90’s dream pop legends The Ocean Blue stopped by Rough Trade records as they toured in support of their first album in six…
SLOTHRUST RETURN TO BK FOR INTROSPECTIVE INDUSTRY CITY GIG
The madcap grunge trio Slothrust returned home to Brooklyn to play a show an exciting bill at the outdoor spread in Industry City in…
EARTH MASTERFULLY ERUPTS AT LPR
Olympia, Washington’s archetypal doom rock band Earth stopped by (le) poisson rouge in the West Village to barrage a packed house of memorized fans…
MISS JUNE CAME OUT SWINGING AT BROOKLYN BAZAAR
A quartet of extraordinary female-fronted bands took over Brooklyn Bazaar with a fierceness and strength that forecasted the approaching storms of their music stardom….
NICOLE YUN THROWS A SUPERNATURAL RELEASE AT ALPHAVILLE
Nicole Yun is best known as the frontwoman of the Virginia-based ethereal rock trio Eternal Summers, but after years lost in the haze of…
PARQUET COURTS HEADLINE SUMMERSTAGE
NYC’s own indie darlings Parquet Courts headlined SummerStage at Central Park, and this was my first show there of the year as well as…
PERRY FARRELL’S KIND HEAVEN ORCHESTRA SOARED AT CITY WINERY
Jane’s Addiction frontman Perry Farrell kicked off his run of the City Winery here in NYC on Friday, June 7th (followed by other Winery…
REBECCA HAVILAND AND WHISKEY HEART ENCHANTED BERLIN
NY’s own countrified blues rockers Rebecca Haviland and Whiskey Heart played an intimate show at the fancy underground cabaret lounge called Berlin in the…