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Photos and Review By: Jessica Cassino The Dirty Shames were most certainly not a dirty shame. The walk from the train station to Cake Shop was though. The stench on Essex and Delancey really stung my nostrils. Cake Shop has everything a girl could want: cupcakes, booze, and loud, loud music. The dudes weren’t really [...]

The 15th Annual Hollywood Film Festival and Hollywood Awards announced that Felicity Jones will be recognized with the “New Hollywood Award” at the Hollywood Awards Gala Ceremony taking place at the Beverly Hilton Hotel on October 24, 2011. The same award was previously given to Academy Award® nominees Jennifer Lawrence (Winter’s Bone) and Gabourey Sidibe [...]

Psychic Dancehall, the project recently unveiled as Crocodiles’ Charles Rowell and The Slits’ Hollie Cook in an exclusive interview with Interview Magazine, are pleased to release their debut LPDreamers, available today on Art Fag Recordings. The project has been shrouded in mystery until now, with the two going by the monikers of Dorian Wartime and Sylvia Innocent. [...]

by: Kat George It was my 10th birthday and I was having a party at my dad’s house. I have vague memories of me and my friends running around the front yard doing a lot of screaming and the sort of general aimless mayhem children find so entertaining. Somewhere amidst us climbing the fence palings [...]

Off the heels of their free Benny & the Jetts EP, San Diego duo TV Girl is pleased to unveil their latest recording. The two-song Girls Like Me 7″ features some of TV Girl’s most shameless hooks and it’s available today via Small Plates Records. You can grab the tracks digitally now on Facebook for 2 bucks or you [...]

Brighton based artist Gross Magic (aka Sam McGarrigle) began life floating through purple clouds and serenading moonlit lakes in the homemade video for ‘Waiting For You’, an unashamedly lo-fi but surprisingly brilliant attempt to recreate the music of Prince, Bowie and the late Michael Jackson. A few months after the demise of his former band Hocus Tocus, [...]

CounterTop Radio — Ep. 8 — Epic Moustaches, Sabremetrics and has CYHSY Gotten Soft? For this week, Nate and Jett wanted to hash out a fundamental disagreement over the direction of Clap Your Hands Say Yeah and their new album, “Hysterical.” Jett stood fast that the band has lost their trademarked whacky madness to their [...]

“Night In The Ocean” b/w “Slip Time” is the next sonic move by Young Magic. The band’s second 7″ to drop in the world is another intimate, lushed-out affair – continuing on the tingly wide-screen journey that “You With Air” b/w “Sparkly” began earlier this year. Equal parts head-noddingly heavy and beautifully delicate, this series [...]

LA-based quartet Saint Motel are pleased to offer the newest take on their acclaimed single “Puzzle Pieces.”   This time Junk gives the track an eerie, chillwave vibe, a perfect fit for the darkly under lit tone of the tune. Download “Puzzle Pieces (Junk Remix)” here for free.      In time for the release of [...]

By: Jacob Weis Louise Burns is fun to look at.  But does the Zooey Deschanel-looking songstress make music as fun to listen to when she isn’t around to sing it to you personally?  That depends. Her debut solo album, Mellow Drama is as dynamic as it is complicated: its tracks crowd around you with what [...]

Words and Photos By: Aaron Bardo *The full travel feature is available in the Fall 2011 issue of WHOA Magazine available in stores Oct. 11. The next day we woke up lazily around ten, just in time for breakfast’s last call. We ate some hardy eggs on Anadama and slices of apple kuchen accompanied by [...]

Is Tropical are set to release a new single on KITSUNÉ /CO-OP on the 31st of October 2011. ‘Lies’ is the follow up to the recent ‘The Greeks’ single with its now legendary video and is the third single to be lifted from the band’s debut album ‘Native to’, which was released in June this year. Watch [...]

by; John M. Wohlgemuth As movies studios continue to be less and less willing to take risks and produce films that are different than your standard Jason Statham shirtless shooters, or 3D urban dance flicks, it has become rare that a film like Drive will manage to not only make it past limited release but [...]

By Kristen Brunelli “It was a black night….” – Ash Black Bufflo I listened to Ash Black Bufflo’s album Andasol while painting the kitchen of my Lower East Side apartment. My much older roommate had left for China for a month and I’d decided, without “permission,” to spruce the place up a bit while he [...]

Canadian indie forerunners, Light Organ Records, are pleased to announce that the debut full-length from Vancouver fuzz-rock outfit Sun Wizard, Positively 4th Avenue, is now available everywhere. You can stream the record in its entirety courtesy of Spinner here. James Younger (guitar/vox), Malcolm Jack (guitar/vox) and Francesco Lyon (bass) started playing together casually, drinking and playing [...]

By: Luke Coleman I was watching a natural history programme the other evening; of the type where the out-of-his-comfort-zone Westerner is constantly amazed by the survival skills of the people who’ve lived in the area in question for hundreds of generations. In amongst the subtly patronizing comments and sweeping vistas so essential to such a [...]

By: Jacob Weis Mathieu Santos: Massachusetts 2010 (Barsuk Records) Some albums want you to believe, whether you’re interested or not.  Well now I do believe, thanks to Mathieu Santos’s Northern Mentality.  Only thing is, I don’t know exactly what I’m believing in.  Mostly because I don’t understand about 90% of the words this dude’s singing. [...]

Brit-rock duo The Big Pink made a splash with their 2009 smashing debut A Brief History of Love. Fans have been eagerly waiting their next release and in January 2012 the band will release their second long awaited album Future This. The first single off of the album is “Stay Gold”. The single was inspired [...]

“It Ain’t Hard to Tell” the upcoming autobiography by hip-hop artist Nas discusses some pretty interesting details of the rapper’s life, including the infamous feud between him and Jay-Z. The rapper has been writing the book with music journalist Touré. Touré wrote on Twitter, “This is hip-hop history. I’ve been talking to Nas about writing [...]

  Julia Sinclair is an award winning classically trained guitarist turned singer-songwriter from upstate New York. The debut LP Slow and Steady from Sinclair is available for a free download (though tips are appreciated) at NoiseTrade. The LP was recorded at Dave Matthew’s Band Haunted Hollow Studio in Virginia. She recently made her move to [...]