Recommended Show: SATURDAY, MAY 19, 2012 JEWEL HEIST @ THE CHARLESTON 174 Bedford Ave Brooklyn, NY 11211 $7, 8PM The Charleston has always been a bit of a hole-in-the-wall venue, but it pulls off some amazing shows from time to time. Tonight is one of those nights when Jewel Heist is scheduled to take the stage. Classixx @ Brooklyn Bowl Ian Williams @ The Stone Cecil Taylor @ Issue Project Room Ulcerate & Tombs @ Public Assembly Damien Jurado & JBM @ Mercury Lounge Cat Martino @ Old American Can Factory The Strange Boys & The Babies @ Maxwell's Milkman & XXXChange @ Music Hall of Williamsburg R. Stevie Moore, Bobby Conn ...

by Bill Pearis Comet Gain Here's the second part of the NYC Popfest 2012 preview. For info on tonight's show at Knitting Factory can read part one here. SATURDAY, MAY 19 Outerhope There's a free show at Spike Hill with...

(Liberator) Factoid: Lead singer dated Kate Nash The Cribs seem to occupy a strange place within contemporary British rock. Known for their prevailing interest in idiosyncratic groups such as Beat Happening and Comet Gain, they’re cult heroes in their homeland and seen as somewhat separate to the more mainstream British rock acts that we’re used to seeing wash up on the shores of the antipodes. Perhaps their incorruptible integrity may have been the reason that ex-Smiths guitarist Johnny Marr ...

WHAT : Hangout Music Fest WHEN : May 18-20 WHERE : Gulf Shores, AL WHO : Jack White, Wilco, the Flaming Lips (performing Dark Side of the Moon ), Alabama Shakes, Skrillex, M. Ward, Yelawolf, Edward Sharpe and the Magnetic Zeros, Randy Newman, more WHAT : NYC Popfest WHEN : May 17-20 WHERE : New York, NY  WHO : Allo' Darlin, Comet Gain, the Ladybug Transistor, Heaven's Gate, Seapony, Saturday Looks Good to Me, the Wave Pictures, more WHAT :  Plisskën Festival WHEN : May 12 WHERE : Athens, Greece WHO : Junior Boys, Joker, Michael Rother with Camera, Male Bonding, Peaches, King Khan & the Shrines, Swords">Forest Swords, College, the Notwist ...

If you'll pardon the slightly pompous BA Journalism term, what's the current "narrative" of the Jarman brothers? For their first few albums The Cribs were characterised as eccentric punk rockers whose ace songwriting was hampered by lo-fi production which made their brilliant songs sound like they'd been recorded in/by a tin can (which was sort of true). Then when it came to album four, 2009's Ignore the Ignorant , all eyes were on - "Hey It's Johnny Marr! Out Of The Smiths!" (and Modest Mouse) "What's He Doing In The Cribs?" That album was also ...

Goiles! Who doesn’t love ‘em, eh? Well, Stephin Merritt doesn’t love them (he enjoys boys), and given his famously irritable personality, he might not even like them, but he’ll have to deal with a pretty hefty dose of the twee British songstress variety of lady later this month when Tender Trap open for The Magnetic Fields during a short spree of UK dates. Here’s hoping the girls in Tender Trap don’t turn up the volume too loud and make Mr. Merritt scrunch up his face and stick his fingers in his ears — it’s never ...

Tender Trap are set to release their new album 'Ten Songs About Girls' in July. Little known but deeply cherished, Amelia Fletcher is responsible for some beautiful music. The hidden inspiration behind the current indie pop boom, the Oxford artist recorded with both Sarah and K Records. And now she's back. Part of new outfit Tender Trap , Amelia Fletcher has completed work on a new album. 'Ten Songs About Girls' will be released in July, with English label Fortuna POP! providing a stable home for the indie pop figure. New track 'Love Is Hard Enough' acts as an appropriate ...

Hello, listeners! Hope you are enjoying this lovely weekend, and what better way to do so than with one of WPRB’s top albums of the week: 1 GRIMES Visions 4AD 2 SCHOOL OF SEVEN BELLS  Ghostory Vagrant 3 ESCORT Escort Escort 4 TRUST TRST Arts And Crafts 5 AIR Le Voyage Dans La Lune EMI 6 ALFREDO RODRIGUEZ Sounds Of Space QWEST 7 BRAD MEHLDAU TRIO Ode Nonesuch 8 CHEERS ELEPHANT Like Wind Blows Fire Self-Released 9 COMET GAIN Howl Of The Lonely Crowd ...

The weather’s lovely, spring’s here for the week (and hopefully things are nice wherever you live, dear reader), so listen to these outdoors ASAP. 1 Bombay Bicycle Club / A Different Kind of Fix / A&M;/Octone 2 Porcelain Raft / Strange Weekend / Secretly Canadian 3 Brief Candles / Fractured Days / Guilt Ridden Pop 4 Burial / Kindred EP / Hyperdub 5 Comet Gain / Howl of the Lonely Crowd / Fortuna Pop! 6 Cursive / I Am Gemini / ...

London Popfest is not your average music festival. Along with its international counterparts, the Glasgow, Madrid, San Francisco and New York Popfests (and it’s entirely possible I’m missing a few, or more than a few, here), it takes place not in a field but all over the city, with bands scheduled for a single venue each night so there’s no chance of clashes – but there’s always a pub within easy reach if you feel like taking a break. Popfest caters to the indiepop crowd, a friendly bunch decked out in cardigans and button badges, but don ...

by Bill Pearis The Pooh Sticks in the early '90s The sixth-annual NYC Pop Fest is happening May 17 - 20 and the organizers have just announced the 27 band line-up, which includes UK acts Allo Darlin' and The Wave...

There are lots of new New Order covers floating around of late, courtesy of a story in a recent edition of the UK music mag Mojo . KCRW's blog highlights their favorite covers here . Comet Gain's version of "Love Vigilantes" is fantastic--it has the energy of the source material but still sounds new. I'm not sure why everyone keeps praising Destroyer's version of "Leave Me Alone" though, as it sounds a lot like the original to me, just not as good. Still, I'll let you be the judge.

Escuchando lo que más me gustó de 2011 me pregunto todo el rato  ¿dónde nos hemos dejado los estribillos?  Y, también, dónde vamos a encontrar los de 2012 ahora que  Lanadadora se ha ido . Igual es que vamos a tener que acostumbrarnos a vivir en la excepción continua, a no poder predecir cuándo viene el subidón ni saber cuándo se va a repetir lo que ya conocemos . Todos los años me pasa igual: en las listas de la gente en cuyo criterio confío encuentro un montón de referencias sugerentes y gracias a ellas dedico el mes de enero a descubrir ...

by Dusted Magazine Comet Gain David Feck and the cavalcade of folks that have comprised Comet Gain have left an indelible mark on those lucky enough to hear them. Their quintessentially British sound harkens back to the early 1990s, and Feck's ingenious, genuine lyrics continue to astound. In his review of... Read More

Roxanne Clifford (vocals and guitar) and Patrick Doyle (drums and vocals) had already been in Sexy Kids together by the time they met James Hoare (vocals and guitar), of Your Twenties, at a Comet Gain show. But they struck up a conversation, and with the addition of Marion Herbain (bass), the London-based Veronica Falls were [...]