Gustaf, the Brooklyn-based art-punk band, is wrapping up a tour with a homecoming finale next Thursday at the Music Hall of Williamsburg.
Check out their live-wire set sometime if you can.
Pretty Sick has just released the eponymous single from the band's forthcoming (June 27!) EP, Streetwise.
On the track, Sabrina Fuentes introduces some new electronic elements, adding a fresh twist to Pretty Sick's sound. (Check out Paper's interview with her here.)
Our past few Fridays-at-5 posts have featured bands on tap for the New Colossus Festival, taking place in LES/EV venues next week.
Up next, the French shoegazers Sarakiniko. The above video is a live version of "Fade it Away into the Sea."
The band will bring their firepower to Rockwood Music Hall on Allen Street next Friday night (set time: 11:30).
NYC's dream-pop duo Phantom Handshakes is just one of the bands playing this year's New Colossus Festival in several LES-EV music venues. Check out the lineup for the festival, March 6-10, right here.
The above video is for "Stuck in a Fantasy."
P.S.
Phantom Handshakes play Arlene's Grocery on March 8 at 7:45 p.m.
The Chicago-based Dehd has a new record due out May 10 on Fat Possum.
Ahead of that, they released this video-single "Mood Ring." (If you want to skip the setup, the song starts at the 2:25 mark. And this Dehd video is still my fave.)
London-based trio Night Tapes has released several singles of late... the video here is for a track from December titled "Drifting," which the band describes as an "existentialist pop song."
A version of a holiday song that maybe you aren't tired of yet (and isn't by, say, Wham, the Waitresses, Paul McCartney & Wings ... all fine classics, but.)
This is a cover of "Have Yourself A Merry Little Christmas" by the Beths... (The Cat Power cover is great too.)