There’s been plenty of talk on NYRM about Ty Segall. I’ve had a lot of admiration for the San Franciscan rocker for quite some time, digging a lot of his scuzzy garage songs, though not particularly blown away by him at SXSW. I liked Lemons last year, but it didn’t make my end of year [...]
Entries Tagged as ‘Cool Band/Song Alert’
June 8, 2010
Cool New (Old?) Band: King Tuff
I’ve been pretty vocal about my love of Happy Birthday’s self-titled debut album lately. Last week I was working at my internship for the company that handles Happy Birthday’s booking. They’re always listening to good tunes in the office, and something really, really good came on that I didn’t recognize. It was vintage grungy punk [...]
May 22, 2010
MP3 Roundup: White Wires, Mutual Benefit, Buffalo Moon, and Eric Copeland
I haven’t been this excited about new music since I’ve been doing this blog. There’s a lot of heavy hitters putting out amazing albums, a refreshing and diverse change of pace after 2009′s Animal Collective/Grizzly Bear/Dirty Projectors monopoly. The National, The Hold Steady, Joanna Newsom, Dum Dum Girls, and Broken Social Scene have obviously all [...]
May 3, 2010
Cool New Festival: Mountain Man Fest
Mountain Man Fest is a brand new DIY festival slated to take place on Saturday, July 24th in upstate New York, right near Skidmore- about a three hour drive from the city. Some of NYRM’s favorite bands will be on the bill including Islands, Real Estate, Woods, Pill Wonder, Family Portrait, Julian Lynch, Cults, and [...]
April 23, 2010
Cool New Video: Real Estate’s “Suburban Dogs”
In the past year, Real Estate has quietly become one of my favorite bands. I find myself thinking, “Budweiser, Sprite, do you feel alright?” pretty frequently, and now that the weather is getting warm again, I can’t get enough of their tunes again. I came across this video via someone’s Twitter feed yesterday, and I [...]
April 21, 2010
MP3 Roundup: Future Islands, Hombres Nombres, Girlfriends, Yellow Ostrich, and Weekends
It’s been far too long since I’ve done one of these posts, but I always get really nervous about them and put it off. I’m afraid that the bands will either be too obvious or be too small and not be good enough, and no one will like the MP3s and everyone will stop reading [...]
March 29, 2010
Recommended Monday Show (and Cool New MP3): City Center at Death By Audio
(photo by Amber Fellows) The last time I wrote about City Center was back in September, when I caught them at Cake Shop and thoroughly enjoyed their mix of loops, noise, and pop sensibility. As I said then, Fred Thomas is an excellent songwriter, and this new track that’s been circulating around the Internet is [...]
March 25, 2010
SXSW 2010: Top Ten Favorite Performances
There’s so much going on at sxsw that it’s impossible to see even a sliver of what the week has to offer. That’s why doing a top ten performances of the week list is sort of silly. On the other hand, I saw some excellent new bands that I’d like to draw a little extra [...]
March 11, 2010
SXSW 2010 Sampler
In exactly five days, I will be on a plane to Austin, Texas, along with every other schmucky music industry person in the world, along with a whole bunch of not-so-schmucky music fans and musicians. SXSW is both a blessing and a curse. On the one hand, it’s my worst nightmare realized. I hate missing [...]
March 4, 2010
Cool New Band (and Recommended Thursday Show): Art Sorority for Girls (and Gray Goods at Bruar Falls)
Imagine listening to a ton of late 90s Top 40 rock, I’m talking 3 Doors Down and Barenaked Ladies, but also Bright Eyes and other proto-emo-ites. Then listen to a whole bunch of Brooklyn lo-fi bands, not to mention actually be in a few. Combine all of those things and you get Art Sorority for [...]
