#Music Hall of Williamsburg

RSVP HEREThe So So Glos Play Farewell Show at Brooklyn Bazaar + 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. The So So Glos are the quintessential New York City punk rock band. Formed in 2007 in Bay Ridge, Brooklyn by brothers Alex and Ryan Levine with...

Tarra Thiessen

RSVP HEREBethlehem Steel Play Trans Pecos + 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. Bethlehem Steel released their sophomore self-titled record on Exploding in Sound Records September 13th and have been on tour since. They are...

Tarra Thiessen

PREVIEW10+ Must-See Bands @ Northside Festival

Summer doesn't officially start until June 21st, but in Brooklyn, the informal kick-off feels more like the first week of June thanks to the annual Northside Festival. Growing exponentially since its inception in 2009, Northside provides sensory overload in the best way possible, with hundreds of...

Madison Bloom

FESTIVAL REVIEWHighlights of Governor's Ball 2016

At Governors Ball, New Yorkers prove that rain goes hand in hand with rock and roll. Highlights from Beck, Christine and the Queens, the Strokes and more.

Ysabella Monton

INTERVIEWChris Chu of POP ETC

org The dimly-lit green room at Music Hall of Williamsburg smells of cigarettes, but in an unassuming way, perhaps because Chris Chu of POP ETC kindly apologizes to my plus one, Caroline, and I in advance. I hardly noticed what he meant once we got up there,...

Ysabella Monton

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

Atlas Genius at Music Hall of Williamsburg

LIVE REVIEWAtlas Genius @ Music Hall of Williamsburg

Australian duo Atlas Genius liven up the night at Music Hall of Williamsburg. Live review by AudioFemme.

Ysabella Monton

LIVE REVIEWSam Amidon at MHoW

I didn’t find out that Sam Amidon’s music wasn’t wholly his own until after the show. He takes folk standards to remaster them and create something new. Normally, learning something like this changes my opinion of an artist, as it doesn’t really feel like they should get all of the attention and credit for their music. Not that I completely write them off, but it’s definitely a let down. But I didn’t feel disappointed when I realized that the performance I had just experienced was in part dependent on old folk standards. Somehow, the origin of the lyrics Amidon and his band sang didn’t quite matter as much as how they sang them.

Kelly Tunney

LIVE REVIEWChristopher Owens @ Music Hall of Williamsburg

all photos Jamila Aboushaca I remember my first experience listening to Christopher Owens. A few years back, I had the likes for a guy I was working with. We grew a relationship over talking about music that we loved and discovered. He told me in the middle of May to listen to a song called...

Jamila Aboushaca

LIVE REVIEWClap Your Hands Say Yeah @ MHoW

Philly’s Clap Your Hands Say Yeah recently saw a change in lineup after the departure of three of its members, but do not fret, they are back as a duo and as good as ever. The band now consists of guitarist/vocalist Alec Ounsworth, and bassist Matt Wong, featuring Sean Greenhalgh as drummer on...

Jessica Salas

LIVE REVIEWCass McCombs @ Music Hall of Williamsburg

New York City and nomadic guitar-man and songwriter Cass McCombs may seem mutually exclusive, but in fact, he used to live here, sometime between stints in Concord, California (his hometown), Baltimore and San Francisco. Throughout a seven-album-long career, McCombs has never settled. To listen to...

Carena Liptak

LIVE REVIEWFactory Floor @ MHoW

As electrifying as Factory Floor's self-titled debut record was, there's only one way to truly experience the post-industrial outfit's particular brand of tachycardiac disco - to be utterly immersed in it. At Music Hall of Williamsburg last Wednesday, the British trio's mesmeric visions became the...

Lindsey Rhoades