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Mac DeMarco

Public Assembly, Brooklyn, NY, October 19

PUBLISHED Oct 22, 2012

Montreal's Mac DeMarco might have recently linked up with Captured Tracks to release 2, but don't confuse him with the clean-cut, summery f...

Dent May

Public Assembly, Brooklyn, NY, October 19

PUBLISHED Oct 22, 2012

Dent May is best known as a ukulele troubadour, which is precisely why Do Things was so surprising. Here, backed by a full band, May experi...

Vatican Shadow

Poisson Rouge, New York, NY, October 20

PUBLISHED Oct 22, 2012

Vatican Shadow, who just released Ornamented Walls, often gets called dark ambient, which is only partially true. Knob-twiddler Dominick Fe...

Autre Ne Veut

Poisson Rouge, New York, NY, October 20

PUBLISHED Oct 22, 2012

Brooklyn local Autre Ne Veut is staking his claim as R&B's next morbid, art-damaged sensation, yet live, his performance has more in common...

King Tuff

The Knitting Factory, Brooklyn, NY, October 18

PUBLISHED Oct 19, 2012

Is there a polite way to tell a band that they've overstayed their welcome? Because King Tuff, Kyle Thomas's lobotomized glam-garage projec...

METZ

The Knitting Factory, Brooklyn, NY, October 18

PUBLISHED Oct 19, 2012

Hype — right now, METZ has it in fistfuls. Yes, they somehow managed to linked up with Sub Pop for their debut album. Sure, that debu...

The Affair

PUBLISHED Mar 1, 2007

All eyes were on the compelling front-woman with a Debbie Harry drawl, commanding the stage while the keyboards and guitars quietly wrestle...

Beans and Holy Fuck

PUBLISHED Mar 1, 2007

Beans has a large part to do with the continuing existence of Holy Fuck, having nabbed them early on to be his trial-by-fire backing band a...