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Top 5 shows of the weekend

September 10, 2019 By Chris Quartly

Top 5 shows of the weekend

In what is usually a somber and reflective week, it’s important to remember that should also include some joy and gratitude of what we still have and can achieve. For the purpose of this weekly column, that includes the experience that only live music can bring.

Filed Under: Events, Music Tagged With: Basilica Soundscape, Central Park Summerstage, Lightning Bolt, Market Hotel, Muscle Worship, saint vitus, The Appleseed Cast, The Growlers, The Lemonheads, Wovenhand

Top 5 shows of the weekend

June 22, 2017 By Chris Quartly

Top 5 shows of the weekend

After completing another orbit around the sun recently, things are going reasonably well, and this good run continues with a great weekend of shows! Summer is officially here and while you might have to plan around some thunderstorms in the coming days, all the more reason to be in air-conditioned music venue having a good […]

Filed Under: Uncategorized Tagged With: Coffey Park, Feral Ohms, Lightning Bolt, Margaret Glaspy, mercury lounge, Pinkwash, Pioneer Works, pissed jeans, saint vitus, Spiral Stairs, The Bell House, YOB

The ‘Grand Ole Opera’ is making NYC music fests gritty again

June 9, 2017 By Coleman Bentley

The ‘Grand Ole Opera’ is making NYC music fests gritty again

As the likes of Governor’s Ball and Northside Festival shed weight and consequence—their focus shifting toward fun, sun, and more sponsor-sponsored coconut water than your bladder can humanly handle—an interesting (and essential) counterpoint has begun to emerge.

Filed Under: Arts & Culture, Beyond, Events, Music, Uncategorized Tagged With: Lightning Bolt, Metal, Music Festivals, Pioneer Works, punk, Red Hook, Sleep

FREEwilliamsburg's Top 25 Albums of 2015

December 18, 2015 By Peter Rittweger

Ranking the year’s best albums is always a stressful process argued over many beers, and if we’re at it long enough, many whiskeys. This year, there were many whiskeys, and we ended up with a… different list than a lot of the ones you’ve been reading over the past month or so. We’re proud of […]

Filed Under: Music Tagged With: Beach House, Bell Witch, Chelsea Wolfe, Courtney Barnett, Earl Sweatshirt, Elder, Föllakzoid, Holydrug Couple, Horrendous, Jim O'Rourke, john carpenter, Lightning Bolt, Locrian, Mgla, Protomartyr, Prurient, Royal Headache, screaming females, Slonk Donkerson, Sufjan Stevens, tame impala, Tenement, Titus Andronicus, Vince Staples, Young Guv

Top 5 shows of the weekend

May 14, 2015 By Chris Quartly

Thanks to Peter for covering for me last week. As mentioned, I was down in Austin for Psych Fest and had a great time (some organisational problems aside), including a genuine “I was there” moment seeing Thirteenth Floor Elevators. The next couple of weeks show some residual benefits from the festival as bands either immediately […]

Filed Under: Bushwick, Events, Greenpoint, Music, Williamsburg Tagged With: a place to bury strangers, Baby's All Right, Brooklyn Night Bazaar, Chui Wan, jeffrey lewis, le poission rouge, Lightning Bolt, Mac McCaughan, mercury lounge, Sleepies, The Wick

This One Goes To Eleven: Weekly metal roundup

March 24, 2015 By Coleman Bentley

I hung out with my girlfriend’s parents all weekend, so chances are I need this more than you right now. Misery does love company, however, so join me as I turn this shit to the ozone, pour something stiff, and pound my forehead off the wall. With a little luck and a lot of faith […]

Filed Under: Bushwick, Events, Greenpoint, Music, News, Williamsburg Tagged With: Artificial Brain, Bio-Cancer, Blackthorn 51, Forn, Huldra, Iriving Plaza, Lightning Bolt, liturgy, Saint Vitus Bar, the acheron, The Meatlocker, Torche

Listen: Lightning Bolt's "Fantasy Empire"

March 9, 2015 By Free Williamsburg

Their lo-fi days are likely gone now that they are on Thrill Jockey. On first listen, Fantasy Empire sounds more traditionally metal than we’d expected, but thankfully there is no indication that they’re interested in mellowing out with their major label debut: Lightning Bolt’s sixth album and first in five years, is a fresh take […]

Filed Under: Bushwick, Music Tagged With: Fantasy Empire, Lightning Bolt

Listen to the new Lightning Bolt track, "The Metal East"

February 11, 2015 By Peter Rittweger

There’s so much to get excited about in this post. Lightning Bolt, as you may have heard, are releasing Fantasy Empire, their first album in five years, on March 23 via their new label, Thrill Jockey. To support it, the noise icons who were the last band to ever play Death By Audio will be […]

Filed Under: Music Tagged With: Lightning Bolt

Death By Audio is closed – a tribute plus video footage of its final shows

November 24, 2014 By Chris Quartly

Death By Audio hosted its last ever show on the 22nd of November with the final set being played by Lightning Bolt, we have some great video from the final two nights below. As the saying goes, you don’t know what you’ve got ’til it’s gone, but for some, Vice media paved paradise to put […]

Filed Under: Music, News, Videos, Williamsburg Tagged With: a place to bury strangers, death by audio, Grooms, JEFF the Brotherhood, Lightning Bolt, Metz, Nots, Protomartyr, Sleepies



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