Indie-girl-rock supergroup Wild Flag played their first New York show since the release of their self-titled album on Saturday, October 15, at Brooklyn’s Bell House. After playing a series of sold-out shows beginning in the spring, the band finally have a proper record to peddle. But as good as that album is—and it’s pretty good—there’s [...]

The Tennessee country/punk outfit Those Darlins hit New York City on Friday, October 14th, playing Brooklyn’s Bell House. The three-girls-and-a-guy group got the crowd going by opening with their “let’s just be friends” anthem “Be Your Bro,” and neither the band nor the crowd (which I’m pretty sure included Best Coast baritone guitarist Bobb Bruno) [...]

As far as cool lineups of bands go, you’d be hard-pressed to find a trio more unassailably cool than the three bands that played the Williamsburg Waterfront in Brooklyn on August 12. Critical darling Kurt Vile, with his band the Violators, opened the show under the early evening sun and played a short set comprised [...]

Philly’s Kurt Vile played New York’s Bowery Ballroom on Saturday, 6/11. Backed by his band, the Violators, Vile sold out his first headlining gig at the Bowery, and did not disappoint. Vile played nearly ever song on his new record, Smoke Ring for My Halo, but that didn’t even make up half of the the [...]

Seattle band, “Poppy Slop All-Starrs,” and MST favorites BOAT played the Rock Shop in Brooklyn on Saturday, the first of two scheduled NYC shows. With three opening bands, BOAT didn’t go on till after midnight, but the wait was well worth it. Sporting five members on stage, the band tore through a set of raucous, [...]

The Love Language (photo: Hannah J. Gouldstone) On March 10, on a dark and stormy night in New York, one of the best shows I’ve seen so far this year took place. After playing a stellar show the night before at the Mercury Lounge, the Merge Records double bill of The Love Language and Telekinesis [...]

On March 5, all-girl supergroup Wild Flag made their New York City debut with two shows at the tiny Rock Shop in Brooklyn. Featuring some of indie rock’s most experienced and flat-out rocking women, the fledgling band sounded exactly like the sum of its parts. Now, for most other bands, that might seem like faint [...]

Southern-rock band Drive-By Truckers, in New York to play Terminal 5 on New Year’s Eve, played a more intimate show – as intimate as a show can get in a bowling alley, anyway – the day before at Brooklyn Bowl in Williamsburg. Though tickets to the show were only available to New Year’s Eve ticket [...]

Scottish band Frightened Rabbit, on the tail end of a monthlong U.S. tour, stopped by New York’s Terminal 5 on October 30th, and played to a surprisingly packed house, given the size of the venue as well as the fact that it was the Saturday of Halloween weekend. While many of the fans – and [...]

Glaswegian indie rock outfit Frightened Rabbit are currently on tour in support of their third studio album, Winter of Mixed Drinks, and have made a strong push Stateside in 2010. Originally conceived as a solo project for singer/guitarist Scott Hutchison in 2003, Frightened Rabbit have since expanded to a full-fledged, five-member band. Earlier this year, [...]