As mentioned previously, Brooklyn's Suckers' have a new album, Candy Salad, which is now out on Frenchkiss. The band plays a record release party tonight (May 1) at Glasslands with openers Acrylics, Turn to Crime and Papertwin. The next day,...

Recommended Show: TUESDAY, MAY 1, 2012 DAN DEACON, DAS RACIST, MEN, TOM MORELLO, and more @ UNION SQUARE PARK Union Square New York, NY 10003 FREE, 4PM No matter what your political opinion, today's Occupy Wall Street concert in Union Square Park is sure to rock. Bird Dog & The Prawns @ Cake Shop The Shins & Real Estate @ Terminal 5 Zula & Netherfriends @ Death By Audio Astro Disco & Manchildblack @ Le Poisson Rouge Doe Paoro, Rewards, & Larry Gus @ Cameo Gallery Bob Schneider & Laura Warshauer @ Bowery Ballroom Suckers, Acrylics, Turn To Crime, & Paper Twin @ Glasslands Hurricanes of Love, Invisible Circle, Con Tex, & Fuckton @ Big Snow ...

Recommended Show: THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 23, 2012 REGINA SPEKTOR @ ROSE THEATER AT TIME WARNER CENTER 10 Columbus Circle New York, NY 10019 $55, 8PM Sure, this Spektor">Regina Spektor concert is a little pricey, but it can't hurt to lay down a few extra bucks for a good show from time to time. Superhuman Happiness @ Zebulon Laura Cantrell @ Hill Country Live The Mystery Lights @ Le Poisson Rouge Zee Avi & Kevin Calaba @ Knitting Factory Spektor">Regina Spektor @ Rose Theater at Time Warner Center Snowmine, Tiny Victories, Decades, & Awning @ Pianos Prince Rama, War">Gary War, & Future Shuttle @ Glasslands Sam Mickens, White Ring ...

To round off the Music Liberation's Writers takeover week we have Moker ... "Well this is a little surprising. Looking back at the artists I’ve managed to review in 2011, the one thing that’s abundantly clear is that I’ve heavily favoured music with female vocals and shoegaze, layered guitars. This must be some kind of subconscious shift in my tastes as I’d never have normally ticked such boxes if I had to describe my favourite music. I’m pleasantly surprised. It’s a bit the reverse of when you go through your record collection and wonder ...

We begin our round up of this year with our top 5 tracks that we reviewed in 2011. This will be followed later this week by our top 5 EPs, Music Liberation writers picks of the year, and finally our top 10 albums of the year... 1. Cloud Nothings - No Future / No Past // Reviewed November 18th by Jon Sidwell "Beginning in a haunting fashion with distant piano and slow methodical bass and drums, front man Dylan Baldi croaks in an ever demanding voice as the music slowly builds and builds. And keep it keeps building until the wheels start to ...

On the tenth day of Christmas, my manicurist gave to me, 10 painted nails! OK, maybe you don’t need to be gifted the actual nails — unless acrylics are your style — but holiday season is party season and you don’t want to be caught gripping your eggnog with nails that haven’t seen a cotton swab since Halloween. STORY:  "The Hunger Games" At Your Fingertips, Literally Starting on the runway and finding its place third to hair and makeup on the beauty spectrum, well-manicured nails are rocketing up the incline on all things cool. Perry">Katy Perry , Nicki Minaj ...

Stylofone will reunite for a performance at New York’s Brooklyn Bowl on December 17. Dum Dum Girls will support with a DJ set. The band’s members have gone to join such noted bands as MGMT (Will Berman), Acrylics (Jason Klauber) and Amazing Baby (Simon...

Their set featured: Nightwatch Asian Pear The Catacombs Download all tracks here. Acrylics recently debuted a video for ‘Sparrow Song’. Purchase Acrylics items via Insound. MP3: Acrylics – Sparrow Song

Soft rock is a genre that isn’t usually immediately associated with indie music, but over the past decade there’s been a resurgence of bands with soft rock influences (think Sufjan Stevens, Beruit, and more recently bands like Washed Out and Bon Iver) …

Recommended Show: TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 1, 2011 VV BROWN @ KNITTING FACTORY 361 Metropolitan Ave Brooklyn, NY 11211 $15, 7PM We're hoping that V V Brown 's show tonight at the Knitting Factory is a preview of her upcoming album. We honestly can't wait until Lollipops & Politics is released. Terry Malts & Wax Idols @ Cake Shop Special Disco Version @ House of Vans Nite Jewel & Acrylics @ Mercury Lounge Battles & Nisennenmondai @ Webster Hall Biters, WYLDLIFE, & Liquor Store @ Maxwell's Psychic Ills & Endless Boogie @ Public Assembly Le Butcherettes & Black Bells @ Santos Party House SBTRKT & Cubic Zirconia @ Music Hall of Williamsburg Evanescence, Pretty Reckless, & Rival ...

What’s one thing that you find enjoyable to do but wish you were better at? I like to paint from time to time. It’s calming to have some killer music playing and just put the acrylics to paper with whatever comes to mind. Depending on what music I have playing in the background, I feel [...]

Terrible Records has a great track record so far. They’ve had CANT, Twin Shadow, Acrylics and now Kindness. “Cyan” is a great haunting pop song that owes more than a bit to 90s R&B.; [via GvB]

Welcome to Rapture and Verse, this month in association with the Richard and Judy book club. With Christmas on the radar, hip-hop hits the paperback trail to get stockings stuffed, with Common penning his memoirs, Nas preparing an autobiography, TI co-authoring a novel and 50 Cent readying an anti-bullying tome. The unsolved murders of Tupac and Notorious BIG are keeping proofreaders busy, ‘Murder Rap’ penned from the perspective of a former LAPD detective, while Shakur is still showing how to build a posthumous empire what with a sex tape recently leaking. You probably won’t find that one in all ...

Llegó el sábado. Nuevas recomendaciones de Cuchara Sónica con, como siempre, un poco de todo para disfrutar de unos buenos tracks. Empecemos. Ducktails, “Mirror Image” Empezamos con una banda que logró introducir un sonido increíblemente low-fi en su música. Se trata de Ducktails y su tema “Mirror Image”. Este tema es un tanto particular y no le gustará a muchos pero aquellos que logren entender y apreciar su sonido probablemente irán por más. Sí, alternativo es su palabra clave. -Axel Marazzi Acrylics, “All of the Fire” “All of the Fire”...

Gotye (aka Melbourne musician Wally De Backer) tells DARREN LEVIN how the artistic indecision at the heart of third album 'Making Mirrors' almost cost him a number one. Wally De Backer cuts a pretty unassuming figure for a guy who’s just topped the charts. He’s lanky and endearingly awkward (he describes himself as a “delicate forward” in basketball terms); talks at a rate of knots; and is prone to nerding out, especially when discussing the technical intricacies of Making Mirrors , his third album under the Gotye moniker. A lyrically rich and musically broad experience, Making Mirrors is another ...