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Drew Citron Gets Free on Debut LP

Calling on the old phantoms of your recent sorrow. Nostalgia we sometimes want to revisit, and sometimes we only write about. Brooklyn babe and Public Practice member Drew Citron released some of that anguish on October 9th, with her solo...

Jamila Aboushaca

RSVP HERECatty Play Alphaville + MORE

Welcome to our weekly show recommendation column RSVP HERE – your source for the best NYC shows and interviews with some of our favorite local live bands. Catty is a Brooklyn band lottery success story. After their names were drawn out of a hat, they quickly churned out a couple songs to play at a...

Tarra Thiessen

RSVP HEREGodcaster Play Baby's All Right + MORE

Welcome to our weekly show recommendation column RSVP HERE – your source for the best NYC shows and interviews with some of our favorite local live bands. After seeing Godcaster for the first time, I imagined they all grew up together on a purple mountain surrounded by space dragons on one of...

Tarra Thiessen

RSVP HERECombo Chimbita and Sun Ra Arkestra Play Knitting Factory + MORE (Holiday Edition)

Welcome to our weekly show recommendation column RSVP HERE – your source for the best NYC shows and interviews with some of our favorite local live bands. This week we've doubled up and listed the best shows from 12/20-New Years! My favorite show of 2019 was Combo Chimbita at Ace of Cups in...

Tarra Thiessen

Mattie Safer - PROMO - Oct 2019 - SELECTS-10

RSVP HERESafer Plays Our Wicked Lady+ MORE

Welcome to our weekly show recommendation column RSVP HERE - your source for the best NYC shows and interviews with some of our favorite local live bands. photo by Kevin Condon My first impression of Mattie Safer, bassist/frontman of the new disco-punk project Safer, is that he has a much calmer...

Tarra Thiessen

RSVP HEREBethlehem Steel Play Trans Pecos + More

Welcome to our weekly show recommendation column RSVP HERE - your source for the best NYC shows and interviews with some of our favorite local live bands. Bethlehem Steel released their sophomore self-titled record on Exploding in Sound Records September 13th and have been on tour since. They are...

Tarra Thiessen

RSVP HEREGYMSHORTS Play Rough Trade + MORE

Welcome to our weekly show recommendation column RSVP HERE - your source for the best NYC shows and interviews with some of our favorite local live bands. Providence, Rhode Island rockers GYMSHORTS join Dune Rats on a couple dates of their tour, including this Tuesday 11/12 at Rough Trade....

Tarra Thiessen

PREMIERETrue Dreams Follow EP with Title Track from Upcoming LP No. 1

When I meet up with feminist punk duo True Dreams at drummer Hannah Nichols' Brooklyn apartment, they're wearing what they call their "uniforms": black school girl skirts, leather harnesses, and crisp white Dickies button downs, each emblazoned with half of the band's logo: Nichols' shoulder says...

Lindsey Rhoades

VIDEO PREMIEREShybaby "When You Were Here"

Brooklyn punk quartet Shybaby add a personal touch to everything they do - and their raw, DIY aesthetic makes their live shows a must-see. That's why we've invited them to play our AudioFemme Holiday Party alongside Grim Streaker and PC Worship. It happens tonight at Alphaville in Bushwick, but to...

Marianne White

LIVE REVIEWThe Beths, Godcaster @ Alphaville

If you wear a fringe-sleeved shirt onstage, you’re bound to get it tangled in your tuning knobs—but this is of little concern to Judson Kolk. The guitarist and lead singer of Philadelphia rock outfit Godcaster flits around so swiftly, his tassels don’t have time to snarl. Calling Godcaster a “rock”...

Madison Bloom

INTERVIEW/SHOW PREVIEWDinowalrus

Pete Feigenbaum spoke to me for about an hour about this thing, that goes on in New York City. People play instruments on stage, sometimes for near to no money—but the action of it is rewarding enough.

Jamila Aboushaca