WEIRD WIVES
Before the boys in Florida indie-rock outfit Surfer Blood teamed up to record their BNM'd debut, Astro Coast, ? guitarist Thomas Fekete, bassist Brian Black, and touring percussionist Marcos Marchesani, along with vocalist and non-Surfer Nick Klein, played pigfuck thrash-punk together under the moniker of Weird Wives. Even though Surfer Blood's profile is steadily rising, […]
BOUNCE CLASS w/ BIG FREEDIA!
Learn how to shake that ass with the Queen Diva of New Orleans Bounce BIG FREEDIA! Class starts at 4pm-6:00 and is $5 per hour. No advance tickets available.
BLEACHED
Back to basics. Take your time. Guitars and golden noise. Meet Bleached, two sisters from LA creating rough-hewed, high-collared, melodic Rock & Roll. Formerly part of Mika Miko, Jessica and Jennifer Clavin were best known for their freewheeling '77 punk and riot girl lawlessness. In Bleached, they share the same slant towards the hard-edged, but […]
THURSTON MOORE
Thurston Moore first saw Beck way back in the early 90s when Beck was mowing lawns with an amplified hand-push ill-blade mower at a backyard BBQ on Toul Avenue in Westwood L.A., a coconut's throw from the 405 freeway. Beck only sang a couple of songs, both about TV destruction and toxic inhalants, before he […]
OLD KING COLE YOUNGER
Old King Cole Younger is Cole from Black Lips side project. Blunt Fang: Once a member of backpack eccentric crew Supreeme, Atlanta’s Negashi Armada has been reborn as Blunt Fang. With "Crystal Power" he mumbles decidedly post Based raps about H. Rap Brown and FAO Schwartz while pacing awkwardly in front of a blue screen […]
NATURAL CHILD
Natural Child is a garage/punk/pop band from Nashville, TN on the Infinity Cat label. http://www.myspace.com/naturalchildband Wez Traylor rocks! One day he ate pot brownies and called Zack and called Seth like 3 times telling them he wanted to start a band. Seth said cool but only if they toured and recorded all the time so […]
DOOMTREE
Wings and teeth. No two symbols could've been better chosen to represent Minneapolis rap stalwarts Doomtree. The endlessly innovative crew/label has defied categorization from the start, leaving behind convention for what's best described as aggressive transcendence. Through a tireless work ethic, take-noprisoners production, lyrics that never shy from truth, and an always shifting stylistic mix, […]
ROYAL BATHS
ABBY GOGO
SCOTT KELLY (NEUROSIS)
EUGENE ROBINSON (OXBOW)
HUNGER III w/ FEATURELESS GHOST + More
Featureless Ghost's approach to live electronic and vocal performance oscillates between the ecstatic experience and the darker moments on the dancefloor. Performing and recording music together since 2007, Matt Weiner and Elise Tippins recently relocated from Brooklyn to Atlanta and spontaneously formed "Featureless Ghost." Their project evolved exponentially over the course of a year and […]
CLOUD NOTHINGS
Cloud Nothings is the brainchild of 18 year old Cleveland resident Dylan Baldi. Late in 2009, he started recording a bunch of catchy indie rock songs on his computer in the basement of his parent's house. Dylan wasn't so concerned with them being lo-fi. But since he only had his simple computer and a crappy […]
BASS DRUM OF DEATH
Bass Drum of Death is a band from Mississippi. John plays guitar and sings and Colin plays the drums. Together they make blown-out, blazing songs. They are set to release their debutLP GB City on Fat Possum Records. John was Fat Possum's worst employee 3 years ago. He wrote and recorded the whole record himself […]
DINOSAUR FEATHERS
With Whistle Tips, Brooklyn, NY quartet Dinosaur Feathers flee from the tropics of their debut, 2009's Fantasy Memorial, and push themselves into hitherto unexplored and ultimately rewarding new territories. Once tethered to a drum machine, the addition of drummer Nick Brooks provide new-found forcefulness and flexibility; the clean melodic basslines of Ryan Michael Kelly often […]
GRIMES
There is a powerful harmony in Grimes. It is a project which is both musical and visual, embodying the arts of 2D, performance, dance, video and sound. Claire Boucher weaves these together to a strong rhythmic effect, "the marriage between the voice of a human and the heartbeat of a machine" . Boucher, born in […]
CULTS (SOLD OUT)
Cults' twinkling experimental pop arrived in a shroud of mystery early in 2010, when the group posted three songs on their Bandcamp page. One of those songs was "Go Outside," which mixed dream pop haze with girl group harmonies (and, fittingly, samples of Jonestown leader Jim Jones) and earned the band acclaim from publications including […]
JEFFREY LEWIS
Jarvis Cocker says Jeffrey Lewis is the finest lyricist of his generation and coming from him that's quite an accolade. We're inclined to agree and really it's quite undeniable when you hear him explain the history of communist China or being sexually assaulted on a train by Will Oldham through song with an ease that […]
LOTUS PLAZA
The project of Deerhunter guitarist/vocalist Lockett Pundt, Lotus Plaza recalls some of his other band's shoegaze-tinged hazy experimentalism and bursts of lucid guitar pop, but takes those sounds in directions influenced by '50s and '60s pop and '80s post-punk. Though he played in several groups during high school, Pundt wasn't in any serious bands until […]
K-HOLES
The K-Holes speak at once of the mystic and the cosmopolitan, the primal and the urbane, the earthen elements and their synthesized cousins. But unlike their contemporaries, the K-Holes' sound is not of the grinning, gregarious panderer. Nor is it of the bored or at-ease. Rather, it's the sound of escape. Escape from the concrete […]
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TITUS ANDRONICUS
In March of this year, XL Recordings released Titus Andronicus' epic second album THE MONITOR. The band's leader, Patrick Stickles - introduced the album at that time with a letter to the media. It is below, in its original glory. You should know however, that since its release, it's been heralded as one of 2010s […]