“The Big Sleep” is the title of Raymond Chandler’s 1939 detective novel — the first to feature the iconic Philip Marlowe character that came to be so closely associated with Humphrey Bogart, who portrayed him in the 1946 film-noir adaptation by director Howard Hawks of the same name. The plot of the book and film [...]

Mr. Matt over at Ear Farm DJed last week’s FRICTION (presented, as always, by Crackers United) and, as usual wrote a good show wrap-up. He had this to say about Takka Takka:
See, Takka Takka rules the school and when they’re finished with you and you pause to evaluate the show you’ll think to yourself “wow, [...]

Slowlands was recently featured on KEXP. The in-studio performance and brief interview is now available online. Here’s how they sum it up on the site:
Slowlands is a six-piece band from Brooklyn, New York. This live set captures their emotional pop songs with unique layers of instrumentation and a knack for building intensity.

Well, in case you hadn’t noticed, we ended up taking a bit of an end-of-Summer break. So, unfortunately, we missed a few things floating around out there, but we definitely want to point out MEIK’s post about Beg Yr Pardon #7 (which we co-sponsored). There are photos of The Secret Life Of Sofia and A [...]

The L Magazine recently interviewed Gabe Levine of Takka Takka. Here’s how he sums up the band’s sound:
They play a distinctly New York brand of rock ‘n’ roll, but only if the New York you know and love has more to do with Lou Reed and Bob Dylan than Carlos D or any of the [...]

Cassettes Won’t Listen has remixed Asobi Seksu’s “Strawberries” from the band’s recently released album, Citrus. You can hear it at their MySpace page.

(SANYC/BYP7 Show Program)
We’re finally recovered enough from Tuesday night’s party to take a look back at all the fun we had. It was a great night, with great music from all the bands and we’d like to thank the whole Beg Yr Pardon crew for letting us in on the fun in such a big [...]