Brooklyn Vegan — Plus: Midge Ure & Paul Young, Dessa, Trashcan Sinatras, La Luz, Amenra, and more tours. Continue reading… more info

Brooklyn Vegan — Scottish pop greats Trashcan Sintaras will be heading out on the "One Night, Two Albums" later this year where they'll play their first two albums -- 1990's Cake and 1993's I've Seen Everything -- in full. Continue reading… more info

Brooklyn Vegan — "2016 has seen plenty of notable deaths, and has to a degree been defined by them," Reader tells us. "These may have escaped notice." Continue reading… more info

Brooklyn Vegan — Melbourne's Redspencer, led by brothers Dave and Aiden McMillian, make jazzy guitar pop that's a bit out of step with most of the city's indie rock groups getting attention these days. They sound more like Trashcan Sinatras than any ba... more info

Brooklyn Vegan — Get your cardigans out: NYC Popfest is upon us and here's an exhaustive guide to the weekend's goings-on, including The Chills, Trashcan Sinatras, Allo Darlin', The Railway Children, The Primitives & more. Continue reading… more info

Popdose — This is a band becoming aware of exactly what it has to lose, which is not a goddamned thing. more info

Brooklyn Vegan — This year marks the 10th edition of NYC Popfest which will happen May 19 - 22 at venues in Manhattan and Brooklyn. The lineup was just announced and the Popfest folks have really outdone themselves for this benchmarck year,... more info

The Vinyl Villain — All this month has been about looking back and talking mostly about singers/bands/performers that are well known.  Today, in the last of the series, I want to look at my one of my favourite discoveries of the past 5 years and I band who I hope will ... more info

The Vinyl Villain — I thought long and hard about this.Do I include five songs from just the one solo album from 2003 that James Kirk has released?  Or do I include tracks he recorded in the 80s under the moniker of Memphis??  Either way, the songs would make this a m... more info

The Vinyl Villain — The excellent debut LP Cake has already yielded two undeservedly flop singles in Obscurity Knocks and Only Tongue Can Tell.  But still there was a feeling that the catchy and often radio-friendly nature of the tunes written and recorded by The Trash... more info