Brooklyn Vegan — DOWNLOAD: Takka Takka - "These Broken Chairs" (MP3) Takka Takka at Littlefield in 2011 (more by Samantha Marble) Last month (11/20), Brooklyn's Takka Takka released A.M. Landscapes, their first full length since 2008's Migration. The album was releas... more info

Totally Fuzzy — "Minimalism and math-rock, Africa and Indonesia, funk and folk and psychedelia, often over beats that sound like rock anthems burnished smooth by the notes pelting above." "Despite some earthbound moments most of the music is rock as meditation, wit... more info

LargeHeartedBoy — Takka Takka's new album A.M. Landscapes and Elbow's b-side and non-album track collection Dead in the Boot are the two new albums I can wholeheartedly recommend in a slow holiday week. The Faint's Danse Macabre is available in a... more info

Brooklyn Vegan — Takka Takka whose sole announced upcoming show is the Ernest Jenning Record Company CMJ showcase at Grand Victory on 10/19 (with Dinosaur Feathers, Wild Yaks, Miniboone, and Daytona), have announced a new album, their first in four years. Listen... more info

Impose Magazine — Takka Takka's Gabriel Levine may have a full set of teeth hidden behind his lips, but he keeps them hidden in his solo debut as Gabriel & The Hounds, Kiss Full of Teeth. Soft and sullen, the record flies past personal, intimate, or masterfully moody ... more info

Brooklyn Vegan — photos by David Andrako Gabriel & the drummers of Takka Takka & the National A>G>E opened the early show at Mercury Lounge on Tuesday night (Valentine's Day). A>G>E is the project of Josh Wise (formerly of French Kicks), and drumming... more info

Brooklyn Vegan — Gabriel & the Hounds aka Takka Takka frontman Gabe Levine & band is releasing an album called "Kiss Full Of Teeth" via Ernest Jenning on 2/28. The album was co-produced by Gabe and Sean Greenhalgh of Clap Your Hands... more info

Guardian Music — Both intimate and immense, Gabriel Levine's triumph of slow-burning melody demands repeated, rapt attentionHometown: Brooklyn.The lineup: Gabriel Levine (vocals, guitar) and friends.The background: There are certain labels you have to sit up and take... more info

Brooklyn Vegan — photos by Samantha Marble, words by BBG The walls of Littlefield were adorned with Conrad Keely's intricate pen/ink tributes to sci-fi, as his band ...And You Will Know Us By The Trail Of Dead celebrated the release of their new... more info

Brooklyn Vegan — words & photos by Benjamin Lozovsky Equally measured and zealous, Suuns' 2010 debut album Zeros QC denoted a band with maturity greater than its experience might dictate. During the Canadian group's squawking gallop of a performance at Brooklyn's Roc... more info