Photos by Steph Brescia The Black Atlas, a dark alt-rock quintent based in NYC, threw a pair of hometown shows — Saint Vitus in Brooklyn and Mercury Lounge in Manhattan — to kick off a national tour. Led by Peter Koronios, The Black Atlas is touring in support of Equinox, the final in a trilogy of […]
Stone Cold Fox did not disappoint with their live show at the Mercury Lounge on May 7. They played each of the songs on their latest EP, Tunnel Vision, and gave us a sneak peek of some of the new stuff they’ve been working on. Before I go into the details of the music, however, […]
Amidst a massive five-continent tour that will take them through the spring, summer, and fall, English alt rockers The 1975 stopped by the Barclays Center on Tuesday to bless Brooklyn with a killer spectacle of light and sound. Despite the specificity of the band’s name, The 1975 has borrowed from many decades to create the […]
Amidst an extensive spring and summer festival tour, Roger Sellers, the producer and musician sometimes known as Bayonne, made a pit stop in Brooklyn to open for U.S. Girls at Baby’s All Right on Friday, May 13. After raving about his debut album, Primitives, for IBG last month, I was thrilled to check out the […]
Fresh off of touring as an opener for Elvis Costello and landing a guest spot on Late Night with Conan O’Brien, Rebecca and Megan Lovell of Larkin Poe stopped by New York’s Lower East Side to play a set at Mercury Lounge. The sisters, born and raised near Atlanta, Georgia, had the whole joint rocking, filling […]
A little over two years ago, a friend invited me to the Lissie show at the House of Blues in Boston. The American singer-songwriter had just dropped her sophomore album Back to Forever but, other than her mean cover of Kid Cudi’s “Pursuit of Happiness,” I didn’t know much about Elisabeth Maurus at the time. […]
After hearing cuts from the new album, Distortland, freshly pressed last week, I had the opportunity to catch The Dandy Warhols live in New York City. The band played Bowery Ballroom, just the second stop on their two-month long album promotion tour. The band’s live show definitely seemed to follow the chilled out trend […]
