How rare is it for the same group of musicians to create not one but two beloved bands of the punk scene? Around the turn of the millennium, pg. 99 pushed heavy music to its most chaotic extremes, ...
Des Ark are opening for Hop Along and Radiator Hospital at NYC’s Bowery Ballroom on Saturday (12/12) (which is sold out), and after that they’ll be playing more dates of their own. Two are with ...
It’s safe to say Pygmy Lush has figured things out. The band has been bouncing between full-throated post-hardcore and dark, hushed Americana since it started recording in the mid-2000s, and that ...
After Refused at Terminal 5 (pictures), I headed to Greenpoint to try and catch the tail end of the Young Widows/Pygmy Lush/Primitive Weapons show at Saint Vitus Monday night (4/23). Though I missed ...
Having said my piece about PR people vis-à-vis leak culture, I figure it’s only fair to write about some of the records that show up in my mailbox unsolicited. This week I got promos from two local ...
Chris Taylor's soft-spoken rattle is an eerie ghost of Kurt Cobain's, and for a while, the band doesn't stray far from the folksy Velvet Underground sound of the MTV Unplugged version. Then, two ...