Gig Alerts: Jams Dean
Jams Dean"Where The Wild Jams Are"Playing at: Cake Shop (152 Ludlow St. L.E.S.,)Get: Tickets (Available at door, price TBA) | DirectionsJams Dean is the kind of artist the world needs more of: an...
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Gig Alerts: Netherfriends
Netherfriends"Mom Cop"Playing at: Cake Shop (152 Ludlow St., L.E.S.)Get: Tickets (Available at door, price TBA) | DirectionsNetherfriends is primarily just one Netherfriend: multi-instrumentalist Shawn...
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Aa"Glow Wreath"Playing SATURDAY at: Cake Shop (152 Ludlow St., L.E.S.)Get: Tickets (Available at door, price TBA) | DirectionsThe New York drum pop collective Aa (pronounced big "A," little "A") is way...
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Download This: Ecstatic Sunshine
Every weekday, we're offering downloadable songs from artists playing in the New York City area that night. Baltimore has produced a lot of great bands and this one deserves to be listed among Dan...
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NT Trio"Is It Noise"Playing at: Cake Shop (152 Ludlow St., L.E.S.)Get: Tickets ($6 at door with canned food donation, $7 without) | DirectionsNT Trio plays raw, lo-fi post-punk. And in true punk...
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Every weekday, we're offering downloadable songs from artists playing in the New York City area that night. Here's one from a band banging out rock-tinged avant-garde soundscapes. Dangeroo"Circuit...
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Gig Alerts: The Beets
The Beets"What Did I Do?"Playing at: Cake Shop (152 Ludlow St., L.E.S.)Get: Tickets $8 AT DOOR | DirectionsPowered by an undeniable boozy charm, the Beets ruled the New York lo-fi scene in 2009. The...
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GIg Alerts: Obits
Obits"Pine On"Playing FRIDAY & SATURDAY at: Cake Shop (152 Ludlow St., L.E.S.)Get: Tickets ($10 at door) | DirectionsGarage punks the Obits made their New York debut in 2008, but the band members...
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Gig Alerts: Zola Jesus
Zola Jesus"Clay Bodies"Playing SATURDAY at: Cake Shop (152 Ludlow St., L.E.S.)Get: Tickets ($8 at door) | DirectionsNika Roza Danilova, a.k.a. Zola Jesus, caught the attention of bloggers last year...
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Gig Alerts: Garotas Suecas
Garotas Suecas"Codinome Dinamite"Playing FRIDAY at: Cake Shop (152 Ludlow St., L.E.S.)Get: Tickets ($10 at door) | DirectionsSão Paulo's Garotas Suecas takes the energy of Os Mutantes and Sly and...
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Gig Alerts: Mi Ami
Mi Ami"Latin Lover"Playing at: Cake Shop (152 Ludlow St. L.E.S.,)Get: Tickets ($8 at door) | DirectionsMi Ami was built on the ruins of D.C. noisemakers Black Eyes, who disbanded shortly before their...
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Gig Alerts: Past Lives
Past Lives"Deep in the Valley"Playing at: Cake Shop (152 Ludlow St., L.E.S.)Get: Tickets (Available at door, price TBA) | DirectionsBased on this track, you'd never guess that Seattle quartet Past...
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Gig Alerts: Finn Riggins
Finn Riggins"Dali"Playing at: Cake Shop (152 Ludlow St., L.E.S.)Get: Tickets ($7 at door) | DirectionsFor Finn Riggins, it's all about the fans. The experimental indie pop/rock trio have been known to...
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Gig Alerts: Pterodactyl
Pterodactyl"First Daze"Playing SATURDAY at: Cake Shop (152 Ludlow St., L.E.S.)Get: Tickets ($10 at door) | DirectionsThe noisy indie rock trio Pterodactyl certainly have a talent for giving shape to...
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Gig Alerts: Fang Island
Fang Island"Daisy"Playing SATURDAY at: Cake Shop (152 Ludlow St., L.E.S.)Get: Tickets ($10 at door) | DirectionsFang Island are a five-piece Brooklyn-based band who create ebullient rock anthems filled...
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Gig Alerts: MillionYoung
MillionYoung"Cynthia"Playing SUNDAY at: Cake Shop (152 Ludlow St., L.E.S.)Get: Tickets ($8 at door) | DirectionsIt's no surprise that Mike Diaz, aka MillionYoung, hails from South Florida. The music of...
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Gig Alerts: Miracles of Modern Science
Miracles of Modern Science"I Found Space"Playing at: Cake Shop (152 Ludlow St., L.E.S.)Get: Tickets ($8 at door) | DirectionsThe five guys in the (mostly) string ensemble Miracles of Modern Science...
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Organs"Come Down With Me"Playing at: Cake Shop (152 Ludlow St., L.E.S.)Get: Tickets ($7 at door) | DirectionsThe name of this Brooklyn garage rock trio suits the band's feral energy. Drawing on the...
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Midnight Masses"There Goes Our Man"Playing at: Cake Shop (152 Ludlow St., L.E.S.)Get: Tickets ($7 at door) | DirectionsMidnight Masses arose out of the death of lead singer Autry Fulbright's father,...
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Twin Shadow"I Can't Wait"Playing at: Cake Shop (152 Ludlow St., L.E.S.)Get: Tickets ($8 at door) | DirectionsTwin Shadow, the recording name for uniquely stylish synth-pop newcomer George Lewis Jr., is...
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Gig Alerts: Lower Dens
Lower Dens"Hospice Gates"Playing at: Cake Shop (152 Ludlow St., L.E.S.)Get: Tickets ($8 at door) | DirectionsBaltimore's Lower Dens is new to the indie scene, but the band's low-voiced frontwoman Jana...
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Gig Alerts: Ty Segall
Ty Segall"Caesar"Playing at: Cake Shop (152 Ludlow St., L.E.S.)Get: Tickets ($10 at door) | DirectionsSan Francisco rocker Ty Segall has all the feverish energy of a young man armed with a guitar and a...
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Gig Alert: Tennis
Tennis"Baltimore"Playing at: Cakeshop (152 Ludlow St., L.E.S.)Get: Tickets ($8 at door) | DirectionsAfter Patrick Riley and Alaina Moore of the Denver duo Tennis returned home from an eight-month...
View ArticleGig Alert: Noxious Foxes
Noxious Foxes"Texting Women"Playing at: Cake Shop (152 Ludlow St., L.E.S.)Get: Tickets ($6 at door) | DirectionsBrooklyn's Noxious Foxes creates music so dense and loud, it’s hard to imagine there are...
View ArticleGig Alert: Dark, Dark, Dark
Dark, Dark, Dark"Daydreaming"Playing tonight at: Cake Shop (152 Ludlow St., L.E.S.)Info: Tickets (FREE) | DirectionsIt's 2010 and it’s high time we reevaluate one of the great lies perpetuated by the...
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On Your Record Release Radar: Pepper Rabbit
The Los Angeles pop rock group Pepper Rabbit releases its debut album, Beauregard, on Tuesday on the Kanine Records label. The band was born when Luc Laurent signed onto Xander Singh's solo project in...
View ArticleGig Alert: New Look
New Look"Nap On The Bow"Playing on Monday at Cake Shop(152 Ludlow St., L.E.S.)Get: Tickets ($10 at the door) | Directions Brooklyn-based Canadian electropop duo New Look is like a pair of early-'80s...
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