#Glasslands

60 NYC Showspaces That Closed in the 2010s

New York wouldn't be New York without its creative community. And yet, even with this long-standing cultural identity, it's incredibly difficult to open an event space with all the required licenses and permits. On top of this, New York's rate of gentrification prices out venues and show-goers,...

Tarra Thiessen

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

LIVE REVIEWYonatan Gat, PC Worship @ Mercury Lounge

For all of the venues we’ve lost in the past couple of years: Death By Audio, Glasslands and 285 Kent to name just a few, I sometimes find myself creeping back into Manhattan in search of a cozy room. The Mercury Lounge is one of those spots that, despite its address in the oft-maligned Lower East...

Madison Bloom

INTERVIEWMeet the Founders of The Gateway

Just a few years ago, if you talked about the Brooklyn DIY scene, you’d likely focus on a stretch of Kent Avenue in Williamsburg. There was the tiny but true-to-its name Death By Audio, the more spacious and artsy Glasslands, and of course, 285 Kent. But now that the waterfront street has succumbed...

Emily Daly

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TRACK REVIEWBRAEVES "Silver Streets"

Cover art by Danielle Guelbart This summer, New York's own BRAEVES released a new single called "Silver Streets" as a follow up to 2014's Drifting by Design EP. The band bid their farewell to New York last weekend at The Studio at Webster Hall, rounding out a busy year of stellar shows at other...

Ysabella Monton

INTERVIEWSam Owens

Celestial Shore is a Brooklyn trio that cites bands like the Zombies and the Pixies as influences, but whose sound has never been anything but their own- spacey, floaty, always-shifting rock. When we talked to the band's guitarist/vocalist, Sam Owens, they were preparing to book it to Austin for...

Emily Daly

LIVE REVIEWXiu Xiu @ Glasslands

As the driving force behind experimental art rock outfit Xiu Xiu, Jamie Stewart has been known to push boundaries. Constantly reinventing himself (and his music), Stewart's eccentric and sometimes violent themes are what ties the project together most readily, his fragile shout the crux of the...

Lindsey Rhoades

LIVE REVIEWThe Everymen @ Glasslands

The greatest live shows are put on by bands that love performing more than they love anything else, and The Everymen is a prime example. This New Jersey outfit's live energy is so strong that it's palpable on their recordings, which actually suffer for their boisterousness—the ragged vocals and...

Carena Liptak

LIVE REVIEWDaniel James, Empress Of and SOHN

It's winter in Brooklyn, make no mistake. The lovely, mild autumn we knew only weeks ago has been replaced by bitter, brutal winds hellbent on penetrating every last layer of coats and sweaters to sink into our frozen bones. But every season has a soundtrack; we can't listen to beachy pop all year...

Lindsey Rhoades

LIVE REVIEWAngel Olsen @ Glasslands 5-19-13

The first twangy strains of Angel Olsen's "Lonely Universe" drift over a packed crowd at Glasslands. The girl next to me goes breathless. She swoons, gasping this is my jam as though we're teenagers and Rihanna just came on the radio, but Olsen's measured, sorrow-tinged crooning is far from club...

Lindsey Rhoades

SHOW REVIEWPalma Violets turned loose in Brooklyn

Hype is a strange, ephemeral beast. While it doesn't come without its negative connotations - that that which is hyped is undeserving of such interest, for one - there are very few independent bands who can make much of a name for themselves these days without at least a little bit of it. When...

Lindsey Rhoades

SHOW REVIEWVår

On Saturday I had every intention of seeing Gap Dream and Grass Widow but had absolutely no energy left for anything not resembling sleep. My family was still in town and while it was wonderful it was still totally draining. I did make sure to catch the Sacred Bones showcase on Sunday at...

Lindsey Rhoades