I wouldn’t want to be around when Bonerama are emptying their spit valves, but some fans are willing to pay them $150 to be a roadie and help the band through these hard times. Boner… hard, get it?  Aside from their phallic wordplay, this New Orleans band has blasted people…

Writing lyrics based off his journal entries of hitch hiking and hopping freight trains, Tim Barry has made a living off of the simple things in life.  Whether he’s playing on a cinderblock barefoot or entertaining crowds with his grizzly voice and acoustic guitar, he’s content with living low-key life. …

Thanks to Choking Victim, Leftover Crack, and the newest of the C-Squat bands, Star Fucking Hipsters, we now have a bunch of baby anarchists with trust funds running around the streets of the Lower East Side brown bagging 40 ounces of malt liquor and who knows what else in their…

Jon Spencer is a hot mess, and I mean that in the nicest way possible.  Rockabilly bands are the tightest I’ve seen live, but when it comes to Heavy Trash, Spencer and Matt Verta-Ray pull off a muddled rockabilly sound with their mix of blues and garage punk. 

Their new…

Sounding like a mix between The Arcade Fire and Modest Mouse, Port O’Brien use their folk roots and fuse them with string ensembles and jangly guitars.  From having band members who spent their summers as fisherman or as head bakers in Alaska, these Californian indie rockers have a distinct sound…

Those crazy ladies that fill their tree branches with glass bottles now have some competition thanks to Electric Junkyard Gamelan. Inspired by mostly Indonesian music with its hammering on xylophones and gongs, this Brooklyn-based band is more likely to play rubber band harps and saw blades. They will be playing…

With all the bands starting with “the” and ending in “ettes,” it’s hard to decipher who’s who. The Danish duo of Sune Rose Wagner and Sharin Foo, better known as The Raveonettes, are easy to identify thanks to distinct soda pop shop space harmonies mixed with a dark pop sound.…

I will not say the phrase “gypsy punk” while writing this review—damn!

Even after Eugene Hütz and his never-ending list of immigrant band mates were banned from CBGB’s, Bowery Ballroom, and The Mercury Lounge, Gogol Bordello still remain at their musical peak after making music together for 10 years.

Their…

Amazing Baby is another Brooklyn-based band that uses too much reverb, has the same haircut, and wears ironic t-shirts and big sunglasses.  Their indie psychedelic rock tunes have a little bit of a Stone Roses feel to them, but their new album, Rewild, sounds more like Animal Collective with their…

I wish I could possess the powers of ‘70s rock gods by making people cold as ice, then hot blooded, and giving them double vision with my vintage Foreigner belt, but the world can’t be as perfect as it is on Aqua Teen Hunger Force.  This NYC supergroup’s powers have…