'Foul' play

 

This is "A Foul Form," from the most recent release by Osees (aka OCS, Oh Sees and Thee Oh Sees) ... one of the best live bands around (IMO)... and they are playing tonight and tomorrow night out at Warsaw in Greenpoint.

Freaks to the front

 

Australian punks Amyl and the Sniffers released this live video clip this week from a recent show... a good preview of what to expect when they play Terminal 5 on West 56th Street next Friday night... in support of their most recent release, Comfort to Me.

That 'Thing' you do

 

And now for some 80s-style emotive synth-pop courtesy of Au Suisse, the debut record from NYC-based music vets Morgan Geist and Kelley Polar (aka Mike Kelley). Read more about the two here.

Enthusiasts of this era can check out their recently released record and spot the loving similarities here and there to Scritti Politti, Pet Shop Boys, Talk Talk, Visage and Tones on Tails, among others. 

And the video here is for "Thing."

Endless summer!

 

From 2014, here's the seasonal "Summer Ends" via the underappreciated Danish band the Raveonettes ... 

The replacements

 

A new single/video dropped today via local musician-artist Ruby Trademark (aka Ruby Aldridge) ... enjoy the noirish noise-pop of "My Replacement."

'Metal' as anything

 

West Coast-based surf-noir outfit La Luz will be at the Bowery Ballroom next Friday (Aug. 26). Ahead of that, here's a video for their single, "Metal Man." 

Touch me I'm 'Dick'

Ladies and gentleman, the very first video from local band Girl Dick ... with "Girl Dick."

Off to the races

Flasher, the D.C.-based band, returned as a duo for its second album out earlier this summer ... the video here is for "Sideways."

From here to 'Eternity'

 

Metric — "the Canadian new wave torchbearers" — recently released album No. 8, Formentera. The video here is for "What Feels Like Eternity." 

The band will be out at Brooklyn Steel this October.

'Face' time

 

Because Grace Jones was trending on Twitter today (collaboration with Beyoncé) ... here's the video for her 1981 track, "I've Seen That Face Before"...

'Spring' break

 

A heartfelt new song by East Village-based singer-songwriter Jim Andralis ... the video released last week is for "New York City Spring," a love song to COVID-era NYC. (This Instagram post provides more background about the track. The stop-animation video is by Alex Dar.)

And this past Saturday, Jim Andralis & the Syntonics opened for Bikini Kill at Irving Plaza.

Upbeat happening

 

Brooklyn's Ribbon Stage is opening for the sold-out Bikini Kill show tonight at Pier 17. 

The video here is for the 75-second  "Rid Myself." As Pitchfork noted, the song "is over before you know it, but for a brief moment, it offers a much-needed dose of upbeat introspection." 

'Use Your Voice'

 

In April 2019 ... Patti Smith and Stewart Copeland joined Choir! Choir! Choir! at the "Onassis Festival 2019: Democracy Is Coming" ... at the Public on Lafayette. 

The choir of 250-strong joined Smith for a version of her 1988 single "People Have The Power."

Broadcast news

 

Broadcast, the English pop-psych band, recently released The Maida Vale Sessions, a rarities collection "charting the band from their first year together to near-international recognition as their sound continued mutating." 

Sadly, lead singer Trish Keenan died from pneumonia in 2011 at age 42. 

The video here is for one of my favorite songs, "Come On Let's Go" from 2000.

'Cheap' thrills

 

There's a new video out today via Surfbort, hanging here in Times Square. "Cheap Glue" is off the band's Keep on Truckin' release.

Here comes the 'Sun'

 

Local faves Hello Mary debuted a new single/video this week... here's guitarist Helena Straight, bassist Mikaela Oppenheimer and drummer Stella Wave with "Looking Right Into The Sun."

Hair and now

 

Sudan Archives has new music out ... here's "Selfish Soul," a song about women and the celebration of hair.

Out of 'Control'

 

After mentioning Sunflower Bean earlier... here's the video for the band's single "I Don't Have Control Sometimes" — with some East Village locales — from the two-week-old release Headful of Sugar.

Big plans

 

Moving through 2022... SoulGlo's Diaspora Problems remains one of the year's critically acclaimed new records. 

The video here is for the first single — "Jump!! (Or Get Jumped!!!)((by the future)). 

Read more about the band from Philadelphia here.

A look back at 'No Way Out'

 

Howie Pyro, a DJ and longtime veteran of the New York punk and underground scenes, died this week at age 61. 

Here's Pyro with bandmates Jessie Malin, Danny Sage, Michael Wildwood and Richard Bacchus from D Generation. This is "No Way Out" from the band's debut record in 1994.