Meg Duffy released Fun House, their third album as Hand Habits, today. Working with their roommates SASAMI (who produced) and Kyle “King Tuff” Thomas (who engineered), it’s a big step forward for Duffy, a wonderful, harmony-laden pop album that still… Read More
Dear lord, there are a lot of albums out this week! Between the normal busy fall release schedule and albums getting moved around due pandemic production problems, this is easily the biggest logjam of the year. Below I review 13 albums that… Read More
As mentioned, ska-punk label Bad Time Records have a bunch of bands playing The Fest, and to celebrate, they’re putting out a new Fest compilation called Having a Bad Time... Wish You Were Here. Most of the tracks were previously… Read More
Pre-order our exclusive white vinyl variant of Heart Attack’s ‘God Is Dead’ 7″, limited to 250. Back when Jesse Malin was only 12, he formed one of the first-ever New York hardcore bands, Heart Attack, and in 1981 they put… Read More
U.S. Girls are back with a new single “Some Kinda High,” that is based around a sample of Canadian pianist and composer Glenn Gould, who died in 1982. The song is part of an album titled Uninvited Guests created by producer Billy… Read More
This just might be the most amount of albums BV has ever reviewed in one week. I highlight 10 below, Bill tackles 13 in Bill’s Indie Basement (Parquet Courts, Jarvis Cocker’s French pop covers album, Helado Negro, Deerhoof, Guided by… Read More
This just might be the most amount of albums BV has ever reviewed in one week. I highlight 10 below, Bill tackles 13 in Bill’s Indie Basement (Parquet Courts, Jarvis Cocker’s French pop covers album, Helado Negro, Deerhoof, Guided by… Read More
Every Time I Die are back with a fucking vengeance. Not that they ever really left — they’ve been workhorses on the road and in the studio for over 20 years straight — but Radical is their first album in… Read More
Though their roots are in Texas, Parquet Courts are very much in the New York tradition of bands, not afraid to let their new surroundings influence and inform their music. In their early days the city came out in the lyrics,… Read More
TONIGHT IN NYC: Kamasi Washington, keiyaA @ Beacon Theatre Parquet Courts, DJ Justin Strauss @ Music Hall of Williamsburg Circuit Des Yeux ft. Wordless Music Orchestra @ Knockdown Center Cassandra Jenkins, Claire Rousay @ Bowery Ballroom Crime in Stereo, Koyo,… Read More