By the way, the El Jezel video for “Champagne And Cold Coffee” that the band released earlier this week along with a free digital EP is on YouTube:

And don’t forget to head to Crash Mansion tonight as El Jezel releases their second full-length album, The Warm Frequency:
Friday, May 30th
El Jezel
@ Crash Mansion / 11pm
199 Bowery [...]

“All of the stories on Seven Summits are at least partly true. Some are completely true, and were told to me firsthand. Some are more like historical fiction.” - Kyle Wilson
Obviously, it’s not possible to objectively quantify the quality of any piece of music. But if counting the number of times an album is able [...]

Man In Gray has announced that they will be going on indefinite hiatus starting in July. Before that, they’ll be playing two shows. The first is this Saturday, May 31st, at Don Pedro in Brooklyn and will be shot for a documentary being put together about Brooklyn bands. Their final show will be June 19th [...]

(still from “Champagne And Cold Coffee” video)
El Jezel has a new album out this week, which they’ll be celebrating with a show at Crash Mansion on Friday. In anticipation of this, they’ve just released a new music video and a free digital EP on their newly relaunched website.
The music video is for “Champagne And Cold [...]

Boy Genius is a band we’ve seen live a few times now. Between those shows and their EP, Eureka, which we’ve been enjoying, we’d say their sound is most reminiscent of the excellent New Zealand band The Bats or Yo La Tengo’s first album, Ride The Tiger. They have a new full-length album out now [...]

Playing a little bit of catch-up. Here are some photos of Zero Spanish playing at the April Hot Rocks Party at The Delancey, with more available on Flickr:

We also posted about Zero Spanish when they played at Pianos in January.

We helped to organize a pre-release party for Renminbi back in March when their album, The Phoenix, was first being made available on a very limited basis. It ended up being an excellent show and the album has been in pretty heavy rotation for us the last few months since we first received it. The [...]

Thursday, May 22nd
Renminbi + The Naked Hearts + Forest Fire
@ Pianos (RENMINBI CD RELEASE PARTY) / 8pm
158 Ludlow Street
New York, NY
8pm - Renminbi
9pm - Forest Fire
10pm - The Naked Hearts
11pm - Something In Spanish
The Jaguar Club
@ Mercury Lounge / 7:30pm
217 East Houston Street
New York, NY
7:30pm - The Jaguar Club
8:30pm - Saints & Lovers
9:30pm - Action [...]

Kristie Redfield is a talented woman. This we already knew, having seen her perform with two great bands in recent years. But reminders are always welcome, as was her performance this past Saturday in Jackson Heights featuring George and Jessica Flanagan of El Jezel, as well as Alex Lipsitt on drums. Here are some photos, [...]

The Unsacred Hearts don’t play many shows these days — something we hear may thankfully change come the fall. But when they do, they put everything into it, which is why we’ve long found them to be among the most entertaining bands in the city. Their show on Friday night at The Delancey was a [...]