Upcoming: Firehorse at Mercury Lounge on 12/3

Firehorse

Gold Lake

Tuesday, December 3

Mercury Lounge

217 E Houston Street

New York, NY

Doors: 9:30PM

Tickets: $10

21+

Check out the track “Fool” from their album Pills From Strangers.

These Animals - “Oak” + NYC Show

Check out the clip for “Oak” by These Animals.  The track was directed by Samuel Aaron Bennett and is from their full-length, debut album Pages.  The band will be at Mercury Lounge on Friday, December 6.  Doors are at 6:30PM and it will cost you $10.

Upcoming: HITS at Mercury Lounge on 12/4

HITS

Chainwave / Faulkner

Wednesday, December 4

Mercury Lounge

217 E Houston Street

New York, NY

Doors: 8:30PM

Tickets: $10

21+

U.S. Royalty - “Into The Thicket”

U.S. Royalty released their new single, “Into The Thicket”.  The track is from their sophomore album Blue Sunshine which is scheduled for release on January 21.

James Bay - "Clocks Go Forward"

James Bay released a new video last week.  It's for the song "Clocks Go Forward" which is from the EP, The Dark Of The Morning.  The clip was directed by Alex Shahmiri.  Check it out below.

Avec Sans Release Video For “Shiver”

London based duo Avec Sans have released a video for their track, “Shiver”.  The clip was directed by Sing J Lee.  Check it out below.

Samantha Kushnick Releases One Room House

Samantha Kushnick released her solo debut album, One Room House, last week.  Check out a couple of tracks from the record below.

One Room House was recorded and mixed in Portland by Lee Howard at Mystery Machine Studios (Y La Bamba, Nick Jaina) and mastered by Tom Swift at Swift Kick Productions (Miles Davis, BB King). The album is graced with performances by some of Portland’s finest musicians. Nick Jaina and Matt Berger (drummer for the Portland Cello Project and Laura Gibson) appear on the record as do Anna Fritz of the Cello Project and Jay Cobb Anderson and Mimi Naja of the string band Fruition. 

Based in Portland, Oregon, Samantha Kushnick is a cellist, singer and songwriter in the folk tradition. She performs with the Vancouver Symphony in Washington state and has toured nationally with the Portland Cello Project and Typhoon, Portland’s thirteen-piece indie rock ensemble. Sami graduated from the Oberlin Conservatory in 2007 with a degree in cello performance. She was raised in New York in a musical family (her great-uncle, Fred Hellerman, is a founding member of the folk quartet The Weavers). Sami began playing cello at the age of ten and has studied with renowned cellists Matt Haimovitz and Hans Jensen.

Someone Still Loves You Boris Yeltsin - "Unearth"

Check out the new video from Someone Still Loves You Boris Yeltsin.  The clip is for the track “Unearth” which is from their latest album, Fly By Wire.

Made in Japan while they were on tour and taken from their fourth album, Fly By Wire, available now on Polyvinyl, band member Phil Dickey elaborates:  "I think tour music videos are inherently boring. We had no intention of making one until my wife found this little dancing robot at a novelty shop in Kobe, Japan." Over the course of tour, the band busted out the robot at shows, toting him to tourist spots and karaoke bars as well. "We knew we had a winner when we took him to Miyajima," Dickey said. "It's a tiny island outside of Hiroshima with a huge amount of shrines, temples, and tame deer." 

For this new album, the members of SSLYBY returned to the attic where they made their debut full-length Broom, but first they took a 5000 mile detour. After the Boris Yeltsin Foundation in Yekaterinburg, Russia extended an invitation to the band, Phil Dickey, Will Knauer, and Jonathan James spent a whirlwind six days in their namesake's home country this past January: meeting with Yeltsin's close friends and personal translator (who gifted them seven bottles of expensive Russian vodka) and performing at an elementary school after the U.S. consulate named them cultural ambassadors for a day. The band is releasing a documentary about their life-changing trip this winter, called Discussions With Russians. Watch the trailer here.

Drowners - “Luv, Hold Me Down” + NYC Show

Check out “Luv, Hold Me Down” from indie band Drowners.  The band is scheduled to release their self-titled debut album via Frenchkiss Records on January 28.  To celebrate their album release, they’ll be taking the stage at The Bowery Ballroom on Friday, January 31...details below.

Drowners

Friday, January 31

The Bowery Ballroom

6 Delancey St

New York, NY

Doors: 8PM / Show: 9PM

Tickets: $13

16+

Upcoming: The Melodic To Play NYC Show on 12/9

UK band The Melodic will take the stage at Mercury Lounge on December 9.  It’ll cost you $10 and doors are at 6:30PM.  They are celebrating the release of their new album Effra Parade.

The Melodic

Vikesh Kapoor / Bird Courage

Monday, December 9

Mercury Lounge

217 E Houston Street

New York, NY

Doors: 6:30PM

Tickets: $10

21+

The group's members came of age in the South London neighborhood of Brixton amidst bustling streets and open air markets reverberating with a rich assortment of musics from around the world. In the distinctly English tradition of sonic assimilation, they found influence in the sounds they were hearing. As band member Huw Williams explains, “Brixton is a real melting pot of different people so it doesn’t feel inappropriate for us to introduce sounds from around the world into our music, there was South American and African music around us all the time, as well as reggae and dub music.”

 

The Melodic are a quietly radical band. This is the first young English group to lionize Chilean neo-folk rebel Victor Jara since Sandinista-era Clash. Their new album Effra Parade was self-recorded in a sound-proofed bedroom in South London over several years with a baroque line-up of 18 instruments. All the more impressive when you consider they are still in their early twenties.

 

In the end, the band has created a vibrant new music which references contemporary artists such as Belle & Sebastian, The Magnetic Fields and the Decemberists, exhibits a clear reverence for past masters Paul Simon and Bert Jansch and mixes in elements from Latin America, the Caribbean and Africa to create a sound entirely their own.