Brooklyn-based duo Locations released a new single on Wednesday titled "Better Days," written via FaceTime during the early days of the pandemic.
This summer, Locations is embarking on the "No New Oil Tour" in collaboration with Extinction Rebellion NYC.
Per a release via the band:
Locations wants you to get out in the streets along with Extinction Rebellion to demand the U.S. government and the "big four" banks put an end to all new fossil fuel projects.
Visit the band's website for more info on their sit-ins and outreach. They're also hosting a single-release party at Alphaville tonight in Brooklyn.
Every-Friday-at-5™ faves Osees (Thee Oh Sees!) have announced a new record, Intercepted Message, out this August. The video here is for the title track.
Annnd they are a great live band... you can see for yourself this coming Sept. 22-23 at the Warsaw.
P.S.
A hint of their live show... though without the video aura...
"Little Stoner" is a new track from a recently released record by singer-songwriter Max Stalker-Wilde.
The video, filmed on 16mm by Jonas Bishop Hayes, was shot around the East Village, where Stalker-Wilde was born and raised.
And Ray's Candy Store, where Stalker-Wilde has worked for the past few years, has a starring role.
"In fact, I had to make a couple of milkshakes and egg creams during the shooting just so I could get the foot traffic moving faster for production's sake," he told us.
Check out more of Stalker-Wilde's music at Bandcamp.
Local faves cumgirl8 released a single (via their new label 4AD) and video this week for "cicciolina."
The track is a tribute to Ilona Staller, aka Cicciolina, the Hungarian-born former porn star, politician and singer. The band explains the reasoning behind the song on Instagram.
The band will be on the road soon, playing dates in North America (including opening a few nights for Le Tigre) and Europe. (This Brooklyn Vegan piece lists the dates.)
Using this Friday-at-5-video post to remember Vivian Trimble, a keyboardist and vocalist from Luscious Jackson. She died on April 4 of cancer treatment complications. She was 59.
The video for "Citysong" is from the band's debut release from 1994.
In recent years Trimble lived in New Hampshire with her husband and two sons. However, she was active in this community during her time in NYC, which Performance Space New York on First Avenue and Ninth Street acknowledged in a tribute on Instagram....
Local band Rebounder (NYC native Dylan Chenfeld and friends) has a new single-video out this week... shot along (or behind!) St. Mark's Place. This is "Dreamland," an inviting pop song.
The underrated San Diego-based duo Crocodiles (Brandon Welchez and Charles Rowell) are back with a new album, Upside Down In Heaven, due out on April 7.
The video here is for one of the singles, "Love Beyond the Grave."
Out now (as of March 10): Love As Projection, the latest solo album from New York-based singer-songwriter Frankie Rose ... formerly of Vivian Girls/Crystal Stilts/Dum Dum Girls.
The New Colossus Festival continues this weekend at neighborhood music venues (Pianos, Mercury Lounge, Berlin, Heaven Can Wait, Bowery Electric and Arlene's Grocery).
The video is for the title track, "I Play My Bass Loud." Birch has said, "The song is a celebration of the bass guitar as a voice, simple or layered, pounding or dancing or everything at once."
Pure Adult, the Brooklyn-based duo of Jeremy Snyder and Bianca Abarca, is on a bill this March 12 for the New Colossus Festival grand finale at the Bowery Ballroom. (Tix here.)
Local faves Hello Mary — Helena Straight, Stella Wave and Mikaela Oppenheimer — released a new single yesterday ahead of the band's full-length debut on March 3.
Bass Drum of Death's fifth full-length release, Say I Won't, is out now on Fat Possum Records.
The above video is for "Everybody's Gonna Be There."
BDOD leader John Barrett, along with his band, his brother Jim and Ian Kirkpatrick, will be one L-train stop away at the Music Hall of Williamsburg on March 31.
