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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

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FESTIVAL REVIEWHighlights from Bonnaroo 2019

The average weather at Bonnaroo varies from an intense dust-bowl heat to a chilly, rain-infused swamp mess. Your days are spent trekking...

Ashley Prillaman

LIVE REVIEWGuerilla Toss at Union Pool

All Photos by Sarah Knoll The New York based genre bending band Guerilla Toss established a month-long residency at Brooklyn’s Union Pool. Playing every Tuesday in June, residencies like this make me question how a band with such a high energy and stamina like Guerilla Toss could keep up with the...

Sarah Knoll

EP REVIEWRubblebucket "If U C My Enemies"

One thing that never tires me about Rubblebucket is that they can create unique, stand-alone tracks that each sound like they're each from a completely different band. That, and their gratuitous use of brass (I'll always be a ska kid at heart, I guess). Having not heard new music from the Brooklyn...

Nicole Ortiz

LIVE REVIEWRubblebucket @ Brooklyn Bowl

You probably won't be surprised to hear that Rubblebucket completely rocked my and many other worlds on Friday, January 11 at Brooklyn Bowl. And you also probably won't be surprised to know that attending one of their shows is an unrivaled live experience that stuck with me for days afterwards....

Nicole Ortiz

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

SHOW REVIEWReptar w/ Stepdad and Rubblebucket

I first saw Reptar when they opened for Foster the People on their fall tour last year. It takes a lot for me to notice a band that is opening for an artist or group whose album I have memorized from the first to last notes, but Reptar possesses exactly that kind of high energy, enthralling dynamic...

Brittany Spanos