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ALBUM REVIEWShilpa Ray Triumphs Over NYC With 'Door Girl'

New York, the city that never sleeps, takes an especially hard toll on those who make its endless nights possible: the waiters, the bartenders, the ticket takers who silently put up with endless shit from drunken idiots. The service industry is favored by artists who need to pay their bills, but at...

Emily Daly

INTERVIEWLoose Buttons on Sundays EP + Pianos Residency

Eric Nizgretsky, frontman of Loose Buttons, oozes satire. The quartet's Facebook bio proclaims they're "New York's very first indie band," and he jokes about Loose Buttons' formation when we meet at the first night of their Pianos residency. "It was a Sunday night," he quips,...

Ysabella Monton

LIVE REVIEWCMJ 2015-Cosmo Sheldrake

On my second venture to Williamsburg’s Living Room, I encounter an even stranger sight than the Anglomania days prior. A lanky, rather stunning gentleman is flung upon a couch like the lead dandy of an Oscar Wilde play. He wears foppish Chelsea boots, a rust red sweater with a hole in the elbow and...

Madison Bloom

CMJ 2015Top 10 Parties Not To Miss

Unless you've been living under a rock or completely off the grid since fall started, you know that CMJ, possibly the best festival for discovering new music, is taking over NYC next week. There's no way to see everything, but here's some CMJ parties you definitely cannot miss (including ours):...

Emily Daly

TRACK REVIEW + TICKET GIVEAWAYController "Flame"

Controller makes New York City rock 'n' roll. They have a July residency at Pianos, and we're giving away two tickets to their show on the 28th. Just head to AudioFemme's Facebook page and "like" or "comment" on the photo of these handsome devils . And, as they say themselves, it's great music to...

Sophie Saint Thomas

LIVE REVIEWFascinator at Pianos

As with all art, it started with a glimpse. As with all art worthwhile, my gaze lingered. This describes my first encounter with Johnny Mackay, the shaggy-haired Australian known for Children Collide, and now the force behind the psychedelic group Fascinator. I was intrigued by him, as well as his...

Marianne White

SHOW REVIEWA Sunny Day In Glasgow @ Pianos, 1-16-13

A lot has changed since A Sunny Day in Glasgow last took the stage together. On the one hand, their particular brand of shoegaze-influenced dream pop has quite a few predecessors, most notably My Bloody Valentine, with the coy experimentalism of groups like Broadcast. But from 2006-2010, when the...

Lindsey Rhoades