#Knitting Factory

RSVP HERENew Myths Play 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. New Myths are a Brooklyn-based alt rock power pop trio comprised of Brit Boras (guitar/lead vocals), Rosie Slater (drums/vocals), and Marina...

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

PREMIEREPETRA "Just Stay"

Credit: Andrew Bordeaux NYC-based alt-pop artist PETRA started playing piano before she could walk and got her first electric guitar when she was six, after she complained to her mother that she wanted to be her "own kind of musician." Today, this philosophy of independence is still in her music,...

Annie White

LIVE REVIEWDead Leaf Echo @ Knitting Factory

There is no doubt about it – Brooklyn band Dead Leaf Echo’s brand new LP Beyond Desire is a fabulous stew of shoegaze, ’77 punk, pedals and reverb. Released late last week by PaperCup Music, the band’s sophomore album is expertly produced and mixed, resulting in a sonic meal you can really chew on....

Madison Bloom

LIVE REVIEWHonduras @ The Knitting Factory

Minutes before the band gets on stage, I watch the crowd come together. For some reason at Knitting Factory, it's always a mix of people you wouldn't imagine listening to the artists playing that night, trickling in from the bar or stumbling upon a cheap show with nothing else to do. Brooklyn's own...

Ysabella Monton

SHOW REVIEWKitty Pryde w/ Deniro Farrar

After having my mind blown by Tinariwen, I was probably better suited for laying around on some grass looking at stars than catching another show, especially one so hyped as hip-hop chanteuse Kitty Pryde's NYC debut at the Knitting Factory. Opener Deniro Farrar hit the stage late, his style classic...

Lindsey Rhoades

SHOW REVIEWHere We Go Magic w/ Glass Ghost

Here We Go Magic are crowd pleasers. When they released the video for “Make Up Your Mind” (in which a variety of women suffer seizures instigated by frontman Luke Temple's mystical musical powers), they unwittingly unleashed a maelstrom of indignation from a some overly sensitive viewers. Rather...

Lindsey Rhoades

SHOW REVIEWFrankie Rose w/ Dive and Night Manager

There's a certain art to being cool. It requires equal parts detachment, judgement, untouchability, andflippancy. Being cool might make you the envy of your less-than-coolcounterparts, but it's ultimately an empty, lonely act. Because being vulnerable isn't cool, being cool entailskeeping others at...

Lindsey Rhoades