It’s a fairly short list this week, but still worth your while. Top pick? This coming Monday’s show with Anais Mitchell and Cuddle Magic at The Bowery Ballroom. Mitchell finished a recent tour with Bon […]
Month: November 2012
VIDEO: Plume Giant – “We Got it Made”
Last week, Paste debuted Plume Giant’s first ever music video for “We Got it Made,” a track off the band’s debut Callithump (Amazon MP3 & Spotify). The Brooklyn-based band, which is performing at the grass […]
This Week’s Must-See NYC Shows
This past summer’s Newport Folk Fest was a tattoo-heavy, musically celestial experience … and one of the focal points of the whole weekend was a group of Icelanders who stole the show(fest): Of Monsters and […]
Three New Bearable Christmas Albums
Just as radio stations and retailers are to starting blare the songs of Bing and Biebs, there are three new Christmas albums worth a listen. Sufjan Stevens – Silver & Gold (Amazon MP3 & Spotify)– […]
Punch Brothers Release ‘Ahoy!’
Earlier this week, Punch Brothers released Ahoy! (Amazon MP3 & Spotify) – a new five-song EP of b-sides that didn’t make it on the band’s last album Who’s Feeling Young Now?. The EP kicks off […]
This Week’s 11 Must-See NYC Shows
This week, spend your Tuesday night in the Lower East Side, happy-go-luckily skipping to-and-fro between The Living Room and Rockwood Music Hall to catch Robby Hecht, Amy Speace, my new fave Nels Andrews, and pedal-steel […]
Hootenanny With Us on December 5th!
SEE PHOTOS FROM THE NIGHT HERE It’s been many months since we’ve had ourselves a happenin’. That changes on Wednesday, December 5th with the first ever grass clippings holiday hootenanny at The Rock Shop in […]
12 Must-See Shows This Week
To a lot of New Yorkers (and beyond), the past week of Sandy and post-Sandy chaos has meant a lot of frayed nerves, cold bodies, dark streets and – not shockingly – canceled shows. But […]
November’s First Sunday Six
Andrew Combs (Nashville) – Alongside of gcb favorites Rayland Baxter, Caitlin Rose, and Angel Snow, Dallas-native Andrew Combs comes from a new breed of young Americana songwriters in Nashville. Last week, Combs released Worried Man […]
Jonah Tolchin: “Rocks & Nails”
You know that Justin Bieber song with Nicki Minaj? Listen to that song and pretend like you don’t know who is singing. I picture a gorgeous young Beyonce-esque girl in some glittery, form fitting outfit…not […]
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