The Brooklyn-based Mei Semones has just released her debut record, Animaru, a dreamy blend of jazz, bossa nova and indie rock. Something we'll be playing all summer.
As you'll see in the above clip, the NYC-based band filmed parts of the video in the East Village, including the stage at Otto's Shrunken Head on 14th Street.
Torture and the Desert Spiders, "a left-field garage project based around the songwriting" of the Brooklyn-based Anna Kunz, has several shows coming up in the neighborhood, including Wednesday at Mercury Lounge and a residency at Baker Falls (April 22 and 29). Check them out.
We continue to highlight indie acts performing at this year's New Colossus Festival, which will take place in East Village and LES venues from March 4 to 9.
Here is the darkwave-synth pop of Coatie Pop with "City Song."
The NYC-based duo will perform on March 8 at 10 p.m. at the Bowery Electric on a bill featuring EVG favorites Genre Is Death.
We continue to highlight indie acts performing at this year's New Colossus Festival, which will take place in East Village and LES venues from March 4 to 9.
On March 8, there's an all-day shoegaze showcase at Arlene's Grocery. On the bill: Washington, D.C.'s Skymender. The above video is for "Doppler," from the band's debut record. (Skymender is playing first in the afternoon session — $10 to see seven bands.)
We continue to highlight indie acts performing at this year's New Colossus Festival, which will take place in East Village and LES venues from March 4 to 9.
Here's NYC-based Mahogany with "A Scaffold." Catch them at the all-day shoegaze party on March 8 at Arlene's Grocery.
We continue to highlight indie acts performing at this year's New Colossus Festival, which will take place in East Village and LES venues from March 4 to 9.
Here's Miami-based surf-punk duo Camp Blu with "Bloody Kisses" and a real creeper of a video
Over the next few weeks, we'll highlight indie acts performing at this year's New Colossus Festival, which will take place in East Village and LES venues from March 4 to 9.
Here's dark-wave Canadian artist Frankie Flowers with "Kiss Me Like the World Is Ending."
Voyeur was one of the local bands on the bill this past New Year's Eve at Night Club 101, the new venue opening in the former Pyramid Club and Baker Falls. (More background here.)
The Cure's A Song From the Lost World" (the band's first album since 2008) made plenty of year-end top-10 lists. (It would make the EVG top 10 as well.)
On Dec. 18, the band released a live version of the single "A Fragile Thing," recorded at the Troxy London show last month.
Freak Slug — aka Manchester-based performer Xenya Genovese — saw the release of her debut full-length release, I Blow Out Big Candles, earlier this month.
The video here is for "Spells."
She plays two shows in Brooklyn this weekend (Baby's All Right and Union Pool), though both are sold out.