The official date of this weekend's Haunting The Chapel/BrooklynVegan Krieg/woe show was Saturday, 10/30, but we started the Mischief Night/Halloween event after midnight to make sure the East Coast…   Read Story »

A deviation from the standard premature evaluative procedure here, as Matt & Kim have gone ahead and put their entire album up for streaming today, and you've already heard at least three songs…   Read Story »

Also because Ray stomped all over Dave's birthday cake. Reunion "news" on an afternoon fraught with sibling rivalry: Ray and Dave Davies, the Kinks core gene pool and Mendelian blueprint for Noel and…   Read Story »

Brooklyn post-punk trio Regal Degal perform in a kind of wind-tunneling locked-groove, one that gathers steam as it circles into itself. They're fronted by onetime Dinowalrus drummer Josh da Costa,…   Read Story »

The latest single in the Green Label Sound series is from BTW Freelance Whales. I'm not sure if this is one of the Emery Dobyns-produced tracks the band Tweeted about just completing, but you can…   Read Story »

Better known as Heems and lesser known as Young Cocoa Butter all over two witty, multiple pop-cultural referencing mixtapes Shut Up, Dude and the recently released Sit Down, Man, Himanshu Suri is…   Read Story »

NAME: Fujiya & Miyagi PROGRESS REPORT: Prepping their fourth album, Ventriloquizzing, for release January 2011 via Yep Roc. Fujiya & Miyagi vocalist David Best speaks in a thoughtful,…   Read Story »

Kings Of Leon released a new single and video this week and dozens (dozens!) of you lurkers stepped up to discuss it. KoL has become an increasingly hot button act on this site as we've witnessed the…   Read Story »

I first saw Buke And Gass last summer at Joe's Pub as part of the Happy Ending Music & Reading Series. They performed some of their songs on a bill where I did a reading about black metal (and,…   Read Story »