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Longtime Lower East Side neighbors Matthew Shipp and William Parker — pianist and bassist, respectively — are revisiting the first album...

  For this Friday at 5, we have LILAC , the artist name of East Village-based independent musician Lilac Emery-Haynes.  LILAC recently relea...

  NYC's t he booyah! kids are on the Sunday afternoon schedule for this weekend's Show Brain Fest in Tompkins Square Park.  The tr...

Photos by Stacie Joy  We had to catch another set by EVG favorites Pop Music Fever Dream last Friday at Night Club 101 on Avenue A.  One th...

  Bonny is a three-piece whose psych-tinged sound is fueled by dual lead vocals and classic-rock influences.  The NYC band is up first tomo...

  Ahead of Sunday afternoon's free Show Brain concert in Tompkins Square Park, here's the new video from NYC's Diary .  The ban...

  Nautics , an NYC band who've been playing together since high school in 2015, are on the free Show Brain bill tomorrow afternoon in T...

We've been listening to Sungaze of late, a Cincinnati-based band that falls into the dream pop-shoegaze category. (The band says, ...

Photos and interview by Stacie Joy East Village-based singer-songwriter Franzi Szymkowiak and her band Lukka (Ashley Gonzalez on bass and S...

  Brooklyn-based Chanel Beads release its second full-length record on June 26 (via Jagjaguwar, and yes, the album title is the same as its...

Photos by Stacie Joy For a band playing just its fourth live show, Nine Perfect Lives already carries itself like a seasoned NYC act.  Satur...

  We have another new video from local psych-pop trio Lukka , led by East Village-based singer-songwriter Franzi Szymkowiak. The clip here i...

Photo by Stacie Joy  We ran into local residents Dave Sussman and Annamaria Pinna today on Ninth Street ... check out their band Vajra ...

  Local psych-pop trio Lukka , led by East Village-based singer-songwriter Franzi Szymkowiak, has a new single out... check out the video ab...

Brooklyn's quietly intense Nara's Room tonight at Night Club 101 on Avenue A ... the band's next record is out on May 15.

  Tearless, thoughtless, the second record from Brooklyn's Nara's Room  comes out on May 15.  The video here is for the first single...

Photos by Stacie Joy Above: Suburban Speed at Ki Smith Gallery  The New Colossus Festival , the six-day celebration of independent music fro...

Photos and interview by Stacie Joy  We finally caught Homade live last month, catching an early set at the Mercury Lounge on Dec. 17 — and ...

  Local band Skorts (an EVG Bands we like alum) debuted a new video this week. Check out "Burden." Skorts is our tour this fall,...

Photos by Stacie Joy  We finally got to see Puzzled Panther live last Sunday ... after hearing about them for the past 18 months or so.  T...