#Mercury Lounge

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 HEREBad Waitress play Mercury Lounge + 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 credit: Michael Amaral I first heard about Bad Waitress from a friend who described their live set as "a 100mph party train ride," and...

Tarra Thiessen

RSVP HEREA Deer A Horse Play Brooklyn Bazaar + MORE

Welcome to our new 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 A Deer A Horse are supporting The Art Gray Noizz Quintet featuring Lydia Lunch for one of Brooklyn Bazaar’s final shows. The Art...

Tarra Thiessen

LIVE REVIEWPublic Memory @ Mercury Lounge

I’ve never felt more old or useful than at last night’s Public Memory show. After getting startled by the opening clang of a crash cymbal (who could ever anticipate drums at a rock concert?) and bolting away from the monitors to the back of the room, it dawned on me that I’d forgotten to bring...

Madison Bloom

PREVIEWOmni @ Shea Stadium and Mercury Lounge 8/20-8/21

Atlanta-based indie-rock band Omni are playing two shows in the New York area this weekend.

Tiffany Hopkins

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

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

ARTIST INTERVIEWParlour Tricks

Missing a music festival due to travel delays caused by a snow storm is worse than the brown frozen crunchy puddles that fill Brooklyn. Rather than escape the cold concrete jungle for warm Savannah, where New York City-based "pretty/gritty" pop rockers Parlour Tricks were performing, I had to...

Sophie Saint Thomas

LIVE REVIEWParlour Tricks @ Mercury Lounge

Lily Claire, frontwoman and primary songwriter for the New York-based Parlour Tricks, gets wild-eyed when she performs. Standing squarely in the middle of the stage at the Mercury Lounge last Saturday, wearing a white tunic with a black collar (her backup singers wore matching outfits, but with the...

Carena Liptak

LIVE REVIEWThe Jane Shermans @ Mercury Lounge

I've been wowed at Mercury Lounge on many an occasion, but seeing The Jane Shermans' forty-five minute set last Monday easily topped the list of performances in the tiny venue that have blown me away. Powerhouse frontwoman Eulene Sherman owned her Explorer bass through the nine song set....

Jamila Aboushaca

LIVE REVIEWKan Wakan @ Mercury Lounge

Sincerity is a trait I never tire of, and Los Angeles-based orchestral pop ensemble Kan Wakan exude it in abundance. Forming in 2012, the band is impressively far along for its youth. They’ve received excessive praise from LA’s KCRW, made it to SXSW, and played a sold-out show at the Mercury Lounge...

Madison Bloom

LIVE REVIEWSpanish Gold @ Mercury Lounge

Some nights, there is absolutely nothing better than heading to a small concert venue in one of your favorite neighborhoods and being blown away by a band you’ve never heard before. This is what happened at Mercury Lounge on June 3rd at Spanish Gold's gig. Spanish Gold is made up of the joined...

Romy Roloff