We profiled local weirdo and musician Brad Cantor a few months ago about his musical project Glass Valley. The vintage-sounding dreampop debut An Intimate Man was co-produced and mixed by Asobi […]
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MySpace Indie Sensation, Black Kids, Return With New Album Rookie and an Attempt to Revive Bandcamp + Playing Baby’s All Right (10/23)
You might expect Reggie Youngblood to be in the internet know—his indie pop band Black Kids blew up as an internet sensation after posting their EP Wizard of Ahhhhs on Myspace back in 2007. But […]
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Pics: Oh Wonder Rocked Rough Trade Thursday
Alt-pop duo Oh Wonder played Rough Trade (64 N 9th St) last Thursday night to a crowded house of fans. All photos by Dylan Lappin.
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The Sounds Celebrate Album’s Ten Year Anniversary at Warsaw
Simply put, Swedish New Wave quintet The Sounds rocked Warsaw (261 Driggs Ave.) last Tuesday night. As their first stop in NYC during their North American tour celebrating the ten year anniversary […]
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Classical Ambient Piano Meets Synthpop and McDonald’s
Some people may have heard of Greenpoint-based musician Andrew Shapiro as that guy who played modern classical piano at a McDonald’s in lower Manhattan every Sunday for nine years. Other people […]
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Album Review: ‘Moth’ by Chairlift
Moth is the third album from Chairlift, a band composed of Greenpoint residents. It’s a breezily-pleasant release, their first since 2012’s Something. Out January 22nd via Columbia Records, the album, while not groundbreaking, […]
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Sachal’s Slow Motion Miracles at the Living Room, 9pm on June 23
Richly layered with afro-beats, jazz rhythms, pop hooks, and Sachal Vasandani’s opalescent vocal timbre, the ten anfractuous and soulful tracks of sophisti-pop on Slow Motion Miracles flow like one body of water into another. […]
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Megan Talay Celebrates 23 by Playing Pete’s Candy Store on April 10th
Singer-songwriter Megan Talay performed in New York City for the first time at age 20. Talay, like some of her influences (Bob Dylan, Joni Mitchell, and Ingrid Michaelson), got her start at The […]
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Weekend Music Picks: From Club to Bluegrass with Headbanging in between (3/27-29)
Abby Hollander plays Skinny Dennis Sunday night There is a spirit of cautious optimism in our neighborhood this week. Ice has disappeared from the sidewalks. There are fewer sightings […]
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04.10.14 Mixtape // The Meaning Of Life
Floral pop crew The Meaning Of Life curates this week’s mixtape — just as McGolrick’s daffodils start peaking from the tundra. You guys: this morning I woke up to the […]