We’re excited to partner with the 2012 Noise Pop Music Festival to present three great days of shows at the Swedish American Hall, with a variety of terrific performers in a wonderful historic space. Get your tickets now! Mac McCaughan of Superchunk, Portastatic, and Merge Records comes to the Swedish for a rare solo performance [...]

Say Anything's Anarchy, My Dear , Max Bemis' outlying pop-punk outfit's first full-length effort for new (and independent) label home, Equal Vision Records, arrives March 13. It's a white-knuckled, sore-throated, open-hearted call to arms that Bemis recorded between Brooklyn and his recently adopted hometown of Tyler, Texas. SPIN spoke to the 27-year-old singer/songwriter about the label swap and how it changes his voice, as well his relationship with emo. How much would you say that you feel heard? It’s hard for me to not to try to sum up my entire life with every single record ...

flyer stolen from vintage richmond top of the day! that flyer is not this show, but from the time period. dont have much time as i actually have “work” to do, but i had a request for this superchunk show which took place on 2.11.92 at the whisky a go go. this performance was actually [...]

Roughly 12 hours ago I was up in the River Gods DJ booth for the first New Music Night of twenty-twelve, once again splitting the 4-hour shift with fellow Boston-based music blogger extraordinaire Jay Clicky Clicky . While I've been doing the RGs DJ thing for something like 5 years now, this was just the 4th edition of the every-other-month NMN... and I've never had a more difficult time cutting my set down to a measly 2 hours. The whittling was made a bit easier once I discovered a whole lotta track overlap with Jay's pre-planned playlist - which ...

The next Playlist in our ongoing series features our friends in Mixtapes, Sword Records">Mightier Than Sword Records, and Kind Of Like Records. We’re big fans of the band and both labels at PropertyOfZack, so we thought it’d be great to match them together. Check out the Playlists and listen to the songs while reading everyone’s thoughts! (Click on image to listen in Spotify) Polar Bear Club - Pawner Make Do And Mend - Winter Wasteland *Song is currently not on Spotify Lemuria - Pants Broadway Calls - Save Our Ship Tigers Jaw - I Saw Water The Menzingers - My Friend Chris ...

With a Jing Jang here and a Jang Jong there, barring the ever-illusive Joe Lean remnants of the inferred major-screwing, LP-scrapping troupe are scattered ubiquitously throughout a seething Shacklewell Arms. Tonight's bunch, adjudged on pure and simply superficial old attire, are out in force to witness TOY whip a four-legged Dalston-centric residency into knowingly lackadaisical, forcedly monochromic action. Conversely, those here congregated muster minimal enthusiasm in indulging in Ralegh Long's brand of lightly melodramatic, folk-lilted chanson: somewhere on the side of the long, lonesome, and meandering road between scrapbook emperor Jeffrey Lewis and perennial prog titans The Tangent ...

Wussy Strawberry Shake It Records [2011] Fire Note Says: Do you remember what indie rock sounds like? Wussy do! Album Review: Former Ass Pony Chuck Cleaver and his partner in crime, songwriter/co-vocalist Lisa Walker are back with Wussy's fourth album Strawberry . It is another infectious batch of 11 songs that alternate the lead vocals between Cleaver and Walker while the rest of the band backs up each singer with a note for note perfection. You might think that with age Wussy would mellow but Strawberry is the proof that their style of jangly indie rock is timeless as ...

Celebrating its 20th anniverssary, this year's Noise Pop festival has announced its expanded line-up, including the likes of Sleigh Bells, Mac McCaughan from Superchunk, Matthew Dear, Bob Mould, The Dodos, and Cursive.

Bob Mould has announced plans to celebrate the 20th birthday of Copper Blue , Sugar’s founding document of the ‘90s alternative sound, by playing the record in its entirety for the first time at San Francisco’s Noise Pop Festival … Featuring Jon Wurster (Superchunk, The Mountain Goats), and Jason Narducy (Robert Pollard, Verbow) Friday, February 24th @ Bottom of the Hill, San Francisco, CA Read and comment. From thedailyswarm.com.

Requested by Michelle • Compiled by edie Indie-rockers describe our pain all too well! The following tape includes songs of pain and heartbreak, and also of just moving the hell on. 01. Superchunk “Detroit Has A Skyline” (Here’s Where the Strings Come In) 02. Carla Bruni - “Those Little Things (Ces Petits Riens)” (Monsieur Gainsbourg Revisited) 03. Amazing Baby - “Headdress” (Rewild) 04. The Mountain Goats - “No Children” (Tallahassee) 05. Noah & The Whale - “Blue Skies” (The First Days of Spring) 06. Sebadoh - “Rebound” (Bakesale) 07. Stars - “Your Ex-Lover Is Dead” (In Our Bedroom After The War) 08. Pavement - “Spit On A Stranger ...

PropertyOfZack is thrilled to be bringing you a brand new 10Of’11 feature from Kind Of Like Records that includes Lisa Garelick from the label, Candy Hearts, and Direct Hit!.  Check them out below and make sure to check back every day for more! From  Nick Woods  of Direct Hit!: Tyler, The Creator - Goblin - Yonkers Death Grips - Ex-Military - Spread Eagle Cross the Block Fucked Up - David Comes To Life - Queen Of Hearts Vacation - S/T - Song 4 Tenement - Napalm Dream - Earwig House Boat - The Thorns Of Life - Barkmarket Fuckacy Night Birds - The Other Side Of Darkness - Demon Haunted World Trash ...

Yo La Tengo Hanukkah @ Maxwell's 12/21/2011 (via TheRealYLT) Looks like Mac McCaughan (of Superchunk, Portastatic and Merge Records) had more than one reason (so far) for spending Hanukkah in Hoboken with Yo La Tengo again this year. His old...

Self-Release 2011 From the same area that brought us the Archers of Loaf, Squirrel Nut Zippers, Southern Culture on the Skids, Superchunk and of course Ben Folds Five comes the very interesting Black Skies. So what are we to make of Chapel Hill's latest gift? At first listen this three-piece band lays down a sort of Discharge induced sludge rock. Repeated listens though give the listener a heavy, proto-metal psychedelic lesson in rock. Drenched in feedback and layers of fuzz this hybrid band take a page from Sleep's playbook and then give it the garage rock treatment. Things ...

Favorite albums of 2011 from David Armes (Last Harbour/Little Red Rabbit Records), James Nicholls (Fire Records), Mac McCaughan (Superchunk/ Portastatic/Merge Records), and Pete Astor (Ellis Island Sound/The Loft/solo artist).

figure 1. Wye Oak 2011 - another year of looking back? At first glance it appears that way. Amazing reissues from Archers of Loaf ( Icky Mettle ), Superchunk ( Foolish ), R.E.M. ( Life's Rich Pageant - p.s. their best album) and Dinosaur jr. (the first three records). Despite all the old material out there, there was some fantastic new music. What follows is my top ten. All links to music are free and legal. 10. Kurt Vile - "Jesus Fever" ( mp3 ) 9. The Cave Singers - "Black Leaf" ( mp3 ) 8. The Get Up Kids - "Regent's Court" 7. Buffalo Tom - "The Big Light ...