Impose Magazine — Franz Nicolay, Scary Mansion, and Trachtenburg Family Slide Show Players played a show at Death By Audio on Saturday, August 16. See more images from this post. more info

Altsounds — The Trachtenburg Family Slideshow Players exist as an anomaly of whacked-out individualism in a vacuum of otherwise pre-packaged, homogenized, corporate schlock. Seriously. How many indie-vaudeville-conceptual-art-rock-slideshow bands/families do you... more info

Stereogum — Trachtenburg Family Slideshow Players’s Rachel Trachtenburg is 16 years old and working with a new, non-familiar band in addition to her solo work. Don’t take that as a sign she’s grown up — her frequent appearances speaking against Mayor Blo... more info

Big Apple Music Scene — Hooray for long weekends! Happy almost 4th to you all! Hope you’ll be celebrating wtih some music; here’s what’s going down this weekend: Thursday (tonight): Forro in the Dark at the MoMA Sculpture Garden (free, 5:30 pm) Thee Oh Sees, Golden T... more info

Brooklyn Vegan — Like Pee Wee's Playhouse, but real - The Trachtenburgs Trachtenburg Family Slideshow Players are taking their show on the road in July. The variety show/vaudeville act/sing-along band will travel down the East Coast over the course of three weeks. Be... more info

Guardian Music — 'This is not a sob story," says Langhorne Slim, shuffling a little in his seat, "because in the end it really worked out well. But I got a call one day saying, 'Really sorry to tell you this, but the album's not gonna come out.'" That was two years a... more info