Oh man, I can’t even begin to tell you all how excited I am about this show. If you haven’t gotten your tickets yet, you better get there early and hope someone is selling one outside, because it’s 10 kinds of sold out. And if you do have tickets, get there early anyway because new […]

Garden Ruin is easily one of my favorite albums of the year and I’m quite excited about this show. Doors open at 9:00 and tickets should be around $10.
Don’t drink too hard for this one. Sufjan and My Brightest Diamond are tomorrow night.

Shortly after seeing their lively, albeit under attended, show at The Republic in New Orleans, I had the opportunity to speak with Ana Rezende from CSS. We spoke about Diplo, t-shirts, touring and the internet. Through our conversation, I found a person who seemed both genuinely contented with and excited about her new […]

Since Cursive’s Domestica in 2000, Tim Kasher and company have elevated their (don’t say it) emo (gah!) theatrics to the concept album stage. It was a bold move that could have gone horribly awry, but instead produced a couple of fantastic albums (Domestica, The Ugly Organ) and some great songs about writing songs to boot. […]

Brought to us by Black Heart Procession’s Paulo Zappoli, Mr. Tube & The Flying Objects is a saxophone infused, distorted, digital, rhythmic galactica. According to the band’s website, their forthcoming album Listen Up! is supposed to capture: “the sounds of horns that drift through the back alleys of our ghettos. Pulsing and pumping sounds from […]

Well I generally bemoan anything at House of Blues, but I guess if you’re feeling up for it, this isn’t a bad show to hit up. Fortunately I’ve seen these bands gobs of times. Deadboy & the elephantmen are opening and I know some of you kids like them.
Tickets are $20 and doors open […]

Only a few days into the tour, The Procession will be touring their little black hearts out for the next several months. With The Castanets in tow, I guess that makes Jacks the place to be tonight. Each band is celebrating relatively new material, with Black Heart Procession’s The Spell being the most recent.
Cover […]