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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

Vanessa Silberman plays The Broadway and Premieres 'Don't' Music Video

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. Fresh New York City transplant and DIY queen Vanessa Silberman is playing at The Broadway this Thursday 11/21 with Nihiloceros, Top Nachos, and...

Tarra Thiessen

LIVE REVIEWJukebox the Ghost @ Bowery Ballroom

At Jukebox the Ghost's Tuesday night Bowery Ballroom show, the commentary was as entertaining as the music itself. As the DC-based power-pop trio known for its intricate piano intros and energetic hooks performed a combination of old hits, tracks from its 2014 self-titled album, and...

Annie White

ALBUM REVIEWPOP ETC "Souvenirs"

Berkeley-born and Brooklyn-based trio POP ETC are back with Souvenir, a follow up to 2012's eponymous release. In the last three years, the band has traversed in an even poppier direction, almost a little cheesy. But in a time when "pop" is considered an obscenity, a genre to be left for the...

Ysabella Monton

LIVE REVIEWCass McCombs @ Bowery Ballroom

Of the many adjectives one could foist upon musicians, “pure” does not top the heap. And yet no word could ring more true when describing Cass McCombs’ set at the Bowery Ballroom last Thursday. And when I say “pure,” I do not mean chaste or innocent, but pure in form. Unadulterated. Music for...

Madison Bloom

LIVE REVIEWAlbert Hammond, Jr. @ Bowery Ballroom

Ysabella Monton for AudioFemme. Any fans of The Strokes can recognize early on that Albert Hammond, Jr.'s rhythm guitar was a heavy influence on driving the band's distinct garage rock sound, so it's great to see him have room to shine on his own. Since he last performed in New York City two years...

Ysabella Monton

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LIVE REVIEWCourtney Barnett @ Bowery Ballroom

“There’s not enough songs about Squash.” Are there not? Not according to Australian singer/songwriter Darren Hanlon. On paper, Hanlon wouldn’t entice me all that much. Solo artist. Acoustic guitar. Singer/songwriter. Cheeky and cheerful folk numbers. Australian. With those keywords I’d fear a...

Madison Bloom

ARTIST OF THE MONTHThose Darlins

"I am a woman from the South. If that's what country is then I guess we are!" For Jessi Zazu of Nashville rock 'n' roll band Those Darlins, self-acceptance comes from art, be it found through her drawings or genre-defying hits created collectively with band members Nikki Kvarnes and Linwood...

Sophie Saint Thomas

LIVE REVIEWPublic Service Broadcasting @ Bowery Ballroom

Public Service Broadcasting travels across the pond and through time to give us a funky dance party

J Moliere

LIVE REVIEWMutual Benefit @ Bowery Ballroom

What started off as a raging race around Lower East Side for a parking spot turned into a placid, serene anchorage at Bowery Ballroom. Bellows, Soft Cat and the halcyonic Mutual Benefit played a hell of a show at one of our favorite spots on Delancey. It was beyond remarkable to see the whole live...

Jamila Aboushaca

LIVE REVIEWBaths and Young Fathers at Bowery Ballroom

"We just announced a new EP today. This is the title track and it's about dead people," Will Wiesenfeld stated before launching into the darkly expansive "Ocean Death." Contrary to the somber introduction, Wiesenfeld, better known as electronic musician Baths, was all smiles. It could be that he's...

Lindsey Rhoades