Brooklyn Vegan — Speedy Ortiz @ Mercury Lounge - 11/2/14 (via Marc Viloria) The killer double bill that is the Speedy Ortiz / Ex Hex tour rolled through NYC over the weekend hitting Glasslands on Saturday (11/1) with Aye Nako and Mercury Lounge... more info

Stereogum — Keep In Touch is a brand new 7″ subscription series that aims to “reimagine the bygone era of pen pals.” Subscribers will receive a 7″ x 7″ flexi postcard each month that will have a song pressed directly onto an image that was chosen by th... more info

Brooklyn Vegan — Ex Hex at MoMA Nights in July (more by Amanda Hatfield) You can browse our full NYC show calendar for all of tonight's shows, but here are some highlights... Secret Guest, Father Murphy, Dan Friel, Palberta @ Death by Audio... more info

Brooklyn Vegan — Aftermath of last night's APTBS show at DbA (via @brooklynvegan) As you know, Death By Audio will be gone forever in less than a month, November 22nd to be exact. This message is currently up on their website: Note for... more info

Brooklyn Vegan — by Andrew Sacher Next week (October 7) is a pretty major album release week, which means a lot of major albums are streaming in full this week. We already posted full album streams from Zola Jesus, Godflesh, Iceage and Single... more info

Stereogum — The latest Speedy Ortiz song comes to us via Brooklyn art collective Famous Class, whose monthly LAMC single series solicits an unreleased song from a musician for a 7″ single and asks that musician to curate the B-side. It’s a charitable endeavo... more info

Stereogum — It’s just about the end of festival season, but Portland gave us one more this past weekend: Project Pabst, the Milwaukee beer company’s music festival. The festival brought together Modest Mouse, Built To Spill, GZA, Speedy Ortiz, and more. It a... more info

Brooklyn Vegan — photos by Mathieu Bredeau Fucked Up @ Irving Plaza - 9/6/14 While the Buzzcocks and Titus Andronicus were tearing up Webster Hall on Saturday (9/6), another killer punk show was going down a few blocks away at Irving Plaza headlined... more info

Brooklyn Vegan — by Andrew Sacher Ex Hex at MoMA Nights in July (more by Amanda Hatfield) Ex Hex, the current band of Mary Timony (Wild Flag, Helium, Autoclave), will release their much-anticipated debut LP Rips on October 7 via Merge. After revealing... more info

KEXP Seattle — ’90s-revivalists Speedy Ortiz go all the way back to the ’70s for their cover of the Sibylle Baier song “Lost Something In The Hills.” The obscure German folk-singer had recorded songs at home on a reel-to-reel recorder, and when none other t... more info