Depreciation Guild Returns, Plus Lots of Good Small Shows
Depreciation Guild’s Facebook. IN HER GENTLE JAWS Pretty light week for super attention-grabbing shows in our neighborhoods this week — seems like all the big ticket items are in one or another of our...
View ArticleThe Depreciation Guild Brought Back Its 8-Bit Shoegaze at Glasslands
(Photo: Kristin Knoll) “I can’t believe we’re here,” said Kurt Feldman on stage at Glasslands on Saturday. Considering the rapturous, slightly disbelieving response of the crowd, they couldn’t believe...
View ArticleThere’ll Be a Whole Lotta Soul at Williamsburg Park Tonight
Between the fifth anniversary of Captured Tracks and the upcoming Mexican Summer blowout, North Brooklyn’s record labels have been pumping out a dizzying array of live music lately. Most of it,...
View ArticleSee R.L. Stine Do ‘Cool Shit/Weird Shit’ at UCBeast Tonight
(Photo: Larry D. Moore) If you were a kid in the ’90s, R.L. Stine was your Stephen King. This was pre-helicopter parenting, when your school book fair haul could consist solely of paperbacks like Say...
View ArticleIt’s Official, These Photos Are All We Have Left Of Death By Audio
We knew the last night at Death By Audio was going to get pretty raw, with about a million people cramming in to say goodbye to the DIY venue even if they’d never been before. But what we didn’t plan...
View ArticleIf NYC Is a Girl, Public Access TV’s John Eatherly’s Probably Feeling Hurt
Public Access TV (Photo courtesy of Chad Moore) John Eatherly has been doing the music thing for a while, having dropped out of high school at 17 to pursue music. “I’ve played in a lot of different...
View ArticleShows: Forecast Predicts Raining Men; Enigmatic Band Releases New Tracks
Welcome back to IRL. Here’s to hoping you had a good one being equal parts proud to live in a country where you don’t have to think too hard about what went into your readily available Apple phone and...
View ArticlePrepare Your Ears for Physical Copy, Coz Yonatan Gat’s Ready for the Next One
Yonatan Gat at home in his studio (Photo: Nicole Disser) Before meeting the guy, I envisioned Yonatan Gat as some latter-day guitar god, a reincarnation of that tradition of males whose sole purpose in...
View ArticleJustin Frye of PC Worship Used a ‘Shitar’ On the New EP, Basement Hysteria
(Photo: Nicole Disser) Despite the relentless output of records, save for some piecemeal rumors, there’s not a ton to go on when it comes to PC Worship, a Bushwick-based band that spans several...
View ArticleThat Notorious Pillar at Market Hotel Has Its Own Twitter
DIY venue the Market Hotel is back, as of December 16 – this is back pillar, currently not on Twitter (Photo via Market Hotel / Facebook) The internet never ceases to amaze us. And after failing to...
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