NYC’s Underground Scene: ‘This Must Be the Place’
Music may be the glue of every NYC underground scene This Must Be the Place covers, but Jesse Rifkin’s primary interest is in the community held together by that glue.
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10 Acts to Watch at Sziget Festival
With another grandiose edition of the legendary Sziget festival about to begin, we draw your attention to the acts you shouldn't miss this year, here or anywhere else globally.
Cinema Cinema: Man Bites Dog
Brooklyn duo makes loud, angry music that reminds us that there is no escape from the inevitable.
Unearthly Trance: Stalking the Ghost
One of the best and heaviest bands to come out of NYC in the past several decades returns with a vengeance to stake their claim.
IAN SWEET: Shapeshifter
While Shapeshifter phases in and out of being great, the musical ability and connection between the band members is undeniably strong.
Making a Sene: The Rise of Brian Marc
Brian Marc, AKA Sene, manages a minimal but heavy discipline of turntablist groove; his dream-washed music appropriates the rhythms of a casual stroll through city streets.
Yeasayer: Amen & Goodbye
Yeasayer throw everything into the mix, resulting in a beautiful, trippy, mind-blowing album with smart, catchy songwriting.
Parquet Courts: Human Performance
The Brooklyn quartet's latest album is incredibly broad in its sonic palette and focused in its approach.
Cultural Purgatory in John Crowley’s ‘Brooklyn’
Rarely do immigration dramas deal with the trouble of re-assimilating back to one’s homeland as John Crowley’s story of cultural purgatory, Brooklyn, does.
B Boys: No Worry No Mind
B Boys draw from the patron saints of punk and come up with a raucous debut EP.
Protomartyr + Priests + Beach Creeps: Music Hall of Williamsburg
The Agent Intellect has elevated Protomartyr from great band from Detroit to a national treasure from Detroit. Go see them live. Go pick up a record, so you can tell your friends you knew them when.
Hailey Wojcik – “Dog V. Man” (video) (premiere)
Hailey Wojcik has a knack for zeroing in on moments in a relationship, reducing them to their cores, then brutally analyzing their flaws.