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Top 5 shows of the weekend

October 7, 2019 By Chris Quartly

Top 5 shows of the weekend

It’s always sad to hear of impending venue closures like Brooklyn Bazaar, come to think of it we’re almost at the 5-year anniversary of Vice media ripping Death By Audio out of our still beating hearts (still not over it). Anyway, let’s try to be a bit more positive with these excellent shows…

Filed Under: Events, Music, News Tagged With: Big Thief, Elsewhere, Ex Hex, Explosions In The Sky, Frenchkiss Records, Jersey City, Kazu, knockdown center, les savy fav, Rough Trade, Sounds of Ceres, The Dodos, Webster Hall

Top 5 shows of the weekend

May 6, 2019 By Chris Quartly

Top 5 shows of the weekend

It’s early days into the basically-L-train-shutdown and some of the best shows this weekend may test your patience in that regard, but we’ll all be experts at this by about the time things get back to normal. Oh yeah, happy mother’s day!

Filed Under: Events, Music Tagged With: Bad Bad Hats, brooklyn bowl, Elsewhere, Ex Hex, Gran Torino, Guerilla Toss, Lee Fields, Meat Puppets, mercury lounge

Top 5 shows of the weekend

April 4, 2019 By Chris Quartly

Top 5 shows of the weekend

Baseball season is here and obviously The Mets are going to win the world series this year… as sure as eggs is eggs, and just like the following suggestions are the best shows to hit up this weekend.

Filed Under: Events, Music Tagged With: bowery ballroom, Dead Tenants, Ex Hex, Kal MArks, Life in Vacuum, mercury lounge, Patio, Thou, Warsaw, YOB

CMJ announce 2015 initial artist lineup

September 9, 2015 By Chris Quartly

CMJ celebrate their 35th anniversary this year and have just announced their initial lineup for the ‘music marathon’. The festival runs from the 13th until the 17th of October, featuring hundreds of bands and showcases (see our thoughts on last year here). The full lineup (so far) can be seen on the official site here, […]

Filed Under: Music, News Tagged With: cmj, Destruction Unit, Evans the Death, Ex Hex, Ham Sandwich, Mercury Rev, Panda Bear, Protomartyr, Savak, The Album Leaf, the men

2015 Northside Music Review

June 17, 2015 By Chris Quartly

The seventh Northside festival wrapped up on the 14th of June, with over 100,000 people spending time indulging either music, innovation, film, or a combination of the three. Free Williamsburg staff spent time at various shows from metal to pop acts, among thousands or sometimes only a dozen likeminded souls. The best sets and the […]

Filed Under: Music, Williamsburg Tagged With: Bell Witch, Best Coast, blonde redhead, Ed Schraeder's Music Beat, Ex Hex, Girl Band, Luna, northside, Northside Festival, Prurient, saint vitus, The Holydrug Couple, viet cong, Warsaw. Sannhet

MoMA Nights 2014 schedule includes Au Revoir Simone, Frankie Cosmos, Widowspeak and more

June 2, 2014 By Peter Rittweger

Ahhhhhhhh summer. The folks over at the Museum of Modern Art have unveiled the lineup for their free (with museum admission) summer concert series, “MoMA Nights” and it has a pretty great lineup again this year. This years festivities include shows from the likes of Frankie Cosmos, Widowspeak, Ex Hex and David Lynch’s favorite band, Au […]

Filed Under: Arts & Culture, Events, Music Tagged With: Au Revoir Simone, Computer Magic, Ex Hex, Frankie Cosmos, La Luz, MoMA, MoMA Nights, Tashaki Miyaki, Thao, THEESatisfaction, widowspeak

Ex Hex video, "Hot and Cold," starring Ian Svenonius

March 18, 2014 By Robert Lanham

Check them out this Thursday at Glasslands. [via DCSetlist]

Filed Under: Music, Videos Tagged With: Ex Hex, Glasslands, Ian Svenonius



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