Kinfolk Studios, the long-running multi-use Williamsburg space on Wythe Ave and N. 11th that has housed a cafe, club, restaurant, boutique, events space and design studio, has closed permanently. The news was shared on Kinfolk's Instagram: It’s with great sadness we… Read More
PJ Harvey is reissuing her entire album catalogue on vinyl and CD this year and she's just shared details for the reissue of her third album, 1995's To Bring You My Love, which will be out September 11. This 25th… Read More
Ashley Tobias, better known as Tobi (Gogol Bordello, Dälek) releases her latest EP, Puzzle Pieces, 24 July via Internet & Weed. The vocalist/percussionist/dancer teamed with partners/co-writers MRC Riddims (the DJ/production duo of Alap Now [ex-Dälek] and Merc Yes) for this… Read More
Modern-day UK jazz great Nubya Garcia recently released her stunning new single "Pace," and now she has announced a new album, Source, due August 21 via Concord Jazz. Nubya produced it with Kwes (Solange, Kelela) and along with the album… Read More
The annual Coney Island Mermaid Parade ushered in summer on Saturday (6/22), a day after Friday's Summer Solstice. Now in its 37th year, the Mermaid Parade is a celebration of the season, creativity, nautical mythology, fertility, and letting ones freak… Read More
Jessie Ware‘s What’s Your Pleasure? is one of the year’s best albums, and even if she can’t make an in-person appearance on a television show or be on the road to promote the record at the moment, she’s doing her… Read More
With a name like Jockstrap, you might expect the UK duo of Taylor Skye and Georgia Ellery to play facetious art-pop tunes. Well, they do, at times, for very short amounts of time. That is, the experimental duo are not… Read More
Jarvis Cocker releases Beyond the Pale, the terrific debut album from his new band JARV IS… (and his first proper album in 11 years), on Friday, and to celebrate the group are sharing pro-shot video of them playing the album… Read More
Kanye West's 2020 presidential bid began with a Tweet on July 4 and continued in a pretty out-there Forbes interview where he said, among other things, that he wanted to run the White House like Wakanda in Black Panther and… Read More
Kansas City post-hardcore/emo vets Giants Chair returned this past December with their first album in 23 years, Prefabylon, released on Spartan Records (order yours), and they've now got a video for its song "Russian Racehorse." Both the song and video… Read More