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Girls Against Boys: November 3, 2016 Saint Vitus
It’s been quite a few years since I’ve gotten to see two Girls Against Boys shows in the same calendar year. So despite whatever else 2016 threw our way, I’ll always have that. While there are a few...
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Thou: January 7, 2017 Saint Vitus
[screen capture from Frank Huang’s video] Thou’s return to NYC last week was a wealth of riches for their fans. The band played three full sets in less than forty-eight hours, including two sold-out...
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Steve Gunn: January 22, 2017 Park Church Co-op
[Photo via @laurencebuisson] Steve Gunn needs little introduction in these pages. We’re big fans—and no doubt you are too. Steve has been touring the US and Canada the last couple weeks along with Meg...
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Lee Ranaldo: January 22, 2017 Park Church Co-op
For all the reasons I need not repeat here, protest music is perhaps more vital now than at any other time in my lifetime if not everyone’s. Lee Ranaldo’s engagement with Occupy Wall Street has been...
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Meg Baird: January 22, 2017 Park Church Co-op
Finally capping off our coverage of the epic Ranaldo-Gunn-Baird tour of 2017—last but certainly not least—here’s Meg Baird’s opening set. We’ve long been fans of everything Meg Baird, from Espers to...
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Suuns: February 11, 2017 Saint Vitus (Early Show)
It’s not easy to be a live band like Suuns. When you make spare, often trancelike music that relies on repetition, fueled by loops and electronics as well as live players, you need to be more than...
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Sir Richard Bishop: May 17, 2017 Park Church Co-op
What’s in a guitar? Two years back, Sir Richard Bishop released Tangier Sessions, recorded on a nineteenth-century guitar of indeterminate origin bought in Switzerland. But last week at Park Church...
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Robert Millis: May 17, 2017 Park Church Co-op
It’s no secret that Sublime Frequencies publishes some of the most interesting, far-flung music and books out there, much of that due to the extraordinarily tireless work of compiler and artist Robert...
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Kinloch Nelson: April 8, 2019 Troost
Kinloch Nelson’s Partly on Time: Recordings 1968–1970 is the latest archival release from the very home of solo guitar music, Tompkins Square. After some near misses and narrow escapes, these...
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Kikagaku Moyo: November 15, 2019 Warsaw
If you’re like me, it was our friends at Beyond Beyond Is Beyond who first turned you onto Tokyo’s Kikagaku Moyo with their stateside release of the band’s second album, Forest of Lost Children....
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