#Elsewhere

RSVP HEREDrug Couple 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. If J Mascis and Shania Twain started a band together after Armageddon, it would sound like Drug Couple - an actual couple, Becca and Miles, who...

Tarra Thiessen

RSVP HERELola Pistola 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. Lola Pistola does not plan on stopping anytime soon. With a raw energetic live show that's not to be missed, Lola Pistola debuted their grunge...

Tarra Thiessen

INTERVIEWMima Good "Bad For Me"

Witches talk back nowadays. Raechel Rosen, aka Mima Good, walks an interesting tightrope thematically; her music weaves together the historical oppression of women with music that more readily brings to mind a candlelit boudoir. It's the playful banter between hi-concept undertones and sexuality...

Ashley Prillaman

INTERVIEWWax Idols Redefine Their Happy Ending With New LP

all photos by Kristin Cofer For Hether Fortune of Wax Idols, there’s no such thing as a fairy tale ending. There’s simply life – the bleakest aspects of which have often become fodder for her musical output – and death, the finality of which she’s come to theorize may be the sweetest release. On...

Lindsey Rhoades

AF 2017 IN REVIEWOpening Elsewhere

Ringing in the New Year at Brooklyn's newest nightclub and indie rock venue, Elsewhere. “What is elsewhere?” I asked. Just a week or two into my internship at PopGun Presents, I had heard Jake, Rami, and Dhruv say this word at least ten dozen times. I sat with Jake and Dhruv at Saint Vitus over beers...

Mandy Brownholtz

TRACK OF THE WEEKBizarre Sharks "Tremendous"

In middle school, soon after I started to play guitar, I would go to my friend’s house who was learning to play drums. We would invite a couple people over, order Dominos and proceed to attempt songwriting for about half an hour and then spend the next two hours arguing about what our band name...

Tarra Thiessen

NEWS ROUNDUPNYC Cabaret Law Repealed, CMA Gag Order and More

NYC Cabaret Law Officially Repealed Established in 1926 to prevent unlicensed dancing in NYC bars, New York's "Cabaret Law" is finally on its last legs after City Council voted Tuesday to end it. Many have been quick to point out that the antiquated law is like something out of Footloose,...

Emily Daly

NEWS ROUNDUPBushwick's New Venue, St. Vincent's New LP and More

Elsewhere Photo by Sam Gold Glasslands Founders Debut New Venue, Elsewhere When Kent Avenue’s DIY hotspot Glasslands closed in 2014, its founders seemed to hint that they’d open another spot eventually. Turns out that spot will be Elsewhere, a warehouse in Bushwick that will double as a community...

Emily Daly