Even when turning down the dissonance, Brooklyn three-piece Liars just keep getting weirder. Once known for iterations on Gang of Four-style dance-punk (typified by…
“Someone took his artificial leg off and handed it to me to sign at a show,” says El-P, recalling the strangest thing he's ever…
Every town has its summer traditions. In Brooklyn, fire hydrants are opened for all the neighborhood kids. In Michigan, folks play rousing games of…
Indie rock has always been a record-collector's genre. And perhaps no current band represents that lineage as faithfully as the Men. Their latest album,…
This entry in the “hot young opposites attract over the course of one long night” genre takes place at Scotland's muddy summer counterpart to…
Adam Mesnick is quick to distinguish the offerings at his new venture, 1058 Hoagies, from his SOMA sandwich mecca, Deli Board. “Deli Board is…
Sixty years have passed since the last American Yiddish talkie, Catskill Honeymoon, enjoyed a premiere theatrical run, and although a few postmodern (or post-Yiddish)…
Do the Right Thing's pizza delivery boy Mookie may make an early cameo, but don't call Spike Lee's ambitious, uncompromising, and musically charged return…
Chicha Libre roughly translates as a kind of intoxicating freedom, which is precisely how this Brooklyn-based sextet approaches making music. On the band's second…
Brooklyn trio Bear in Heaven exists in a cul-de-sac where krautrock, shoegaze, electro-pop, and cosmic disco govern the neighborhood association; when this band holds…
