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, [...]

Venerable indie record label Matador Records turned 21 this year, and what better place to hold a 21st birthday celebration than Las Vegas? So over three days at the Palms, a cavalcade of Matador stars, past and present, celebrated the label that helped to usher in “indie rock” into the musical vernacular. The mood all [...]

While it was largely viewed as something of a 90′s revival at Sunday’s Pavement show – the first of the long-awaited, weeklong NYC residency by the indie-rock gods – a quick survey of the scene revealed how 21st century the event really was. If it were really the 90′s, the show would not have been in [...]

Being tagged to open for Pavement at the first of five shows in New York is a double-edged sword. On one hand, you’re guaranteed a huge audience, and it’ll probably be the most covered of all the shows Pavement play while they’re in town. On the other hand, most, if not all, of the thousands of [...]

Despite topping the French music charts in 2008 with their debut record, A Mouthful (becoming the first group to do so with an English language record), the French/Finnish duo the Dø (pronounced “doe,” as in as in do-re-mi) had a hard time finding a label in the States. Still, the group can draw a crowd, so [...]

On one of the muggiest days in one of the muggiest summers in recent memory, Loose Limbs, Best Coast and Free Energy played a free show at Pier 17 at South Street Seaport in Lower Manhattan on July 23. After a thumping, short set by Loose Limbs, LA’s Best Coast took the stage in the [...]

One night after playing a sold-out show at the giant, out-of-the-way monstrosity of a venue, Terminal 5 (or “The Thunderdome” as lead singer A.C. Newman put it), the New Pornographers played a sold-out show at the smaller, equally out-of-the-way venue the Bell House  on June 20.  And befitting the smaller venue, the show was more [...]

Band of Horses opened the summer concert series at Williamsburg Waterfront on June 20th, in front of a sold-out crowd in Brooklyn. Despite the many barriers to entry – which included a maddeningly large number of separate lines for ticket checks, ID checks, drink tickets, and actual drinks that could only be bought with said [...]

Seattle band BOAT, in New York City for three days, were kind enough to stop by the Music Street Team’s apartment studio (not studio apartment) in lovely downtown Brooklyn, to inaugurate themst.com’s new “Rock the House, Not the Neighbors” apartment series. The band, perhaps sated by bagels and Diet Coke, stayed long enough to play [...]