Email Author Nick Murray

2011 Stories by Nick Murray

• Red Dawn II

  published September 7, 2011

  No one is about to accuse Red Dawn II of taking themselves too seriously. Take, for instance, their Swayze-inspired band name. Or the... More >>

• EVOLUTION, GIRL-STYLE

  published September 7, 2011

  On 2008's self-titled debut, the Vivian Girls set the template for the lo-fi and lo-maintenance guitar rock that has since risen to the... More >>

• LIL TUNE-SHE

  published September 7, 2011

  w h o k i l l, the second album by tUnE-yArDs, the Connecticut-born indie darling who reached New York after a detour in Kenya, is lively,... More >>

• The Zombies

  published August 31, 2011

  Forming in 1961 and breaking up before the 1968 release of their Odessey and Oracle, their lone full-length masterpiece, there’s no... More >>

• Toro Y Moi

  published August 31, 2011

  When Toro Y Moi released 2009’s “My Touch” EP, the scene that would soon coalesce under the unfortunate moniker... More >>

• Japandroids

  published August 31, 2011

  There’s something endearingly boyish about Post-Nothing, the debut LP from guitar-and-drums duo Japandroids, a band with an... More >>

• HYPNAGOGIC WHAT?

  published August 31, 2011

  It's not unusual that Ernest Green (better known as Washed Out) recorded his first songs in his Georgia bedroom--plenty of artists'... More >>

• 'Remembering 9/11' with the Worldess Music Orchestra

  published August 24, 2011

  In 2001, composer William Basinski set about transferring his early works from reels of tape to the hard drive of his computer, but as this... More >>

• Galeet Dardashti

  published August 24, 2011

  With the High Holy Days rapidly approaching, there's a limited time before the Book of Life is officially sealed, and when that happens, who will... More >>

• Ducktails

  published August 24, 2011

  With Real Estate, Matthew Mondale plays slinky guitar lines that start out as indie pop and wind towards classic psychedelia. As Ducktails, he... More >>

• BACK TO EARTH

  published August 31, 2011

  Last time we saw TV on the Radio, they were playing from a billboard stage that popped up three or four stories above the corner of Lafayette and... More >>

• Aloe Blacc

  published August 24, 2011

  "I Need a Dollar," the straightforward and soulful lead single off 2010’s Good Things might open HBO’s How to Make It in... More >>

• NEVER GOING BACK

  published August 24, 2011

  Labor Day weekend might be your last chance to get out of the city without wearing long sleeves, so why not escape to Jones Beach for an evening... More >>

• '93 TIL INFINITY

  published August 24, 2011

  Nas or GZA? Lauryn Hill or Raekwon and Ghostface? Black Star or Masta Killa? These aren't the pointless hypotheticals hip-hop heads have used to... More >>

• Toby Keith+Eric Church+JT Hodges

  published August 17, 2011

  Since 1999’s "How Do You Like Me Now?" topped Billboard’s country singles chart in March of the following year and heralded a... More >>

• IT MIGHT GET LOUD

  published August 24, 2011

  Last month, Ridgewood's Silent Barn, a hub for New York's Showpaper DIY scene, was broken into and badly vandalized; tonight, a few... More >>

• Crosby, Stills and Nash

  published August 17, 2011

  Between them, David Crosby, Stephen Stills and Graham Nash have written enough songs to fill a month-long residency at Manhattan’s Beacon... More >>

• 'Barnstormer 5'

  published August 10, 2011

  Despite flannel everywhere, true Manhattan barnstorming hasn’t been possible for at least a century. Nevertheless, the people at Daytrotter... More >>

• PUNK FUNK

  published August 17, 2011

  With this year’s lineup pushing the pseudo-genre in every direction imaginable, the name Afro-Punk Festival seems more open-ended than ever.... More >>

• JAGGED LITTLE THRILL

  published August 17, 2011

  After bringing Jon B and Olivia to Brooklyn, Chrisette Michele to Queens, and Ryan Leslie to Harlem’s Marcus Garvey Park, SummerStage winds... More >>

• School of Seven Bells

  published August 10, 2011

  If it weren’t for Secret Project Robot’s blacklighted psychobilly freakout a few blocks away, Cameo Gallery would be as spacey as any... More >>

• GANGSTA CHIC

  published August 17, 2011

  With Alabama’s G-Side making their New York debut last year at the Maysles Cinema and MOMA PS1 introducing Queens to Big Freedia, Odd... More >>

• The Beets

  published August 10, 2011

  Over the past few years, The Beets have navigated the New York’s DIY scene (not to mention the equally daunting... More >>

• Stephen Malkmus

  published August 10, 2011

  If you scored tickets to see Pavement at, say, Coachella last year, you got the chance to hear frontman Stephen Malkmus sing in front of thousands... More >>

• Stephen Malkmus

  published August 10, 2011

  If you scored tickets to see Pavement at, say, Coachella last year, you got the chance to hear frontman Stephen Malkmus sing in front of thousands... More >>