Both touring bands and local music fans (aka members of an aloof subculture that you wouldn’t understand) have probably felt a shifting tide. Over the…
Bake Time is Up: Cake Shop Says Goodbye
Another venue spent New Year’s Eve saying their last goodbyes to regulars and anyone else with a drink in their hand. For the last few…
Week in Shows: Get Runny, Feel Good + Take a Trip to Synthicide’s Triple Threat
Synthicide: Three-Year Anniversary Thursday January 4, 10 pm to 4 am at Bossa Nova Civic Club: FREE Even if right now the weather’s making you…
3 Ways to Lend a Small but Helping Hand to those Impacted by Oakland Fire
Whenever someone compares Brooklyn to Oakland, an angel loses its wings, and is sent plunging straight down to hell where the sexless being is reborn…
Week in Shows: Fresh Newgaze, Disco Misnomers, and Phish Swims Up Livestream
Guilty Giraffe, Disco Cream, Sooner, Yairms Wednesday December 28, 8 pm at Sunnyvale: $10 Welcome back friends, orphans, Santa assassins, and gainfully employed. This is…
Shows Make the Holidays Less Horrible: Make Like Total Slacker, and More
White Rope, Fruit and Flowers, Sweet Baby Jesus, Grim River Tuesday December 20, 8 pm at Sunnyvale: $10 You’d be crazy to leave your apartment…
Williamsburg Loses Another Venue, as Cubana Social Closes This Weekend
Just a few months after the closure of Black Bear Bar, its neighbor on North 6th Street, Cubana Social, is leaving Williamsburg after six years. No,…
Week in Music: Retail Finds Life After Dead, Bands Raise Dough for Planned Parenthood
The Range, Glass Gang, Sarah Kinlaw, IMAGIST, Kathleen Dycaico Tuesday November 29, 8 pm at Elvis Guest House: $10 minimum donation Prepare for some straightforward, vaguely…
Four Shows: Drown in Sound if Feeling Down, or Just Say Cheers to a Jolly End
Video Daughters, Quin Galavis, 2;Frail, Drome Wednesday November 16, 8 pm at Alphaville: $8 The good people at Alphaville haven’t been mincing words about their…
Week in Sound: Alphaville Turns Two, The Julie Ruin, and More
Mutual Crush VII: Mzungu, Drunken Sufis, Amar Wednesday November 11, 8 pm at Elvis Guesthouse: free Ongoing live music series Mutual Crush returns with a show…