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Earth: August 27, 2015 Saint Vitus – FLAC/MP3/Streaming
[photos from Levitation 2015 by PSquared Photography] Just shy of a year since we last saw Earth at Saint Vitus, the band returned to the venue last week for the second of two NYC shows. Marc Ribot...
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PC Worship: September 3, 2015 Aviv – FLAC/MP3/Streaming
[photo courtesy of Anyane Photography] The Brooklyn band PC Worship has been on this site several times this year, in part because they are one of the strongest experimental and improvisational bands...
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The Gotobeds: August 30, 2015 Saint Vitus – FLAC/MP3/Streaming
[photo by Amanda Hatfield, full set here] By all indications, The Gotobeds are having a tremendous year: riding their accolades from last year’s well-received debut album, Poor People are Revolting...
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Dope Body: September 3, 2015 Aviv – FLAC/MP3/Streaming
[photos courtesy of Anyane Photography] The scruffy and sardonic Baltimore post-punk band Dope Body is supposedly named for “an online video the band enjoyed,” but as you watch the shirtless frontman...
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Holy Sons: August 27, 2015 Saint Vitus – FLAC/MP3/Streaming
Holy Sons is the seventies-inspired heavy rock solo project from Om/Grails drummer Emil Amos. If you’ve ever seen either of those bands live, you’ll have surely noted Amos’ irrepressible energy behind...
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Pill: September 3, 2015 Aviv – FLAC/MP3/Streaming
[photos courtesy of Anyane Photography] Pill were high on my list of experimental Brooklyn bands to see, and it was a treat to catch them on an outstanding bill at Aviv that also included PC Worship...
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Invisible Familiars: November 23, 2015 Manhattan Inn
Jared Samuel’s name shows up a good bit around these parts; even at a young age (tonight was almost his 26th birthday) the guy has already established himself as a go-to player for touring and local...
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Rangda: March 4, 2016 Saint Vitus
[photos by PSquared Photography] When the first Rangda record, False Flag, arrived in 2010, it was a transmission out of the multiverse—from an alternate reality where Corsano, Bishop, and Chasny...
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Alan Licht: March 4, 2016 Saint Vitus
[photos by PSquared Photography] Since 2011, Alan Licht has been playing guitar in Lee Ranaldo’s backing band, The Dust. For someone normally associated with the downtown No Wave and Minimalist set,...
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craw: March 12, 2016 Saint Vitus
[photos by PSquared Photography] Ohio is an interesting place. In some ways its an Eastern industrial state and in other ways its an agricultural Midwestern state. Its a state with large cities and...
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Dead Meadow: May 13, 2016 Saint Vitus
[photos courtesy of P Squared Photography] For many of us who grew up on indie rock, Dead Meadow was our introduction to psych/stoner/metal/whathaveyou, owing to a few early aughts tours with the...
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Kohoutek: May 13, 2016 Saint Vitus
[photos courtesy of Kohoutek] Kohoutek are a long-running, loose collective improvisational psych band from Washington, DC and Philadelphia. While the extended Kohoutek family is massive, their core...
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James Jackson Toth & William Fowler Collins: October 5, 2016 Park Church Co-op
There’s nothing like a church performance to put a fine point on the meditative-spiritual practice of listening to music. Earlier this year James Jackson Toth (aka Wooden Wand) teamed up with...
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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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