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Big Snow Buffalo Lodge Shutters After Co-Owner Yoni David Is Shot

We Smoked Weed With Total Slacker at the Olive Garden in Times Square

"Are you excited to be here?" I ask. "I'm, like, fucking cumming in my pants," replies Tucker. It is 8:45pm on a Sunday evening, and I am waiting in a fake Tuscan piazza with the members of Total Slacker (Tucker Rountree, Emily Oppenheimer, Dave Tassy and Zoe Brecher) -- a Brooklyn band who specia ... More >>

They're Writers, Directors, Poets, And They Score Louis CK's Show: What Can't the Mast Do?

Haale Gafori and Matt Kilmer are a modern day Renaissance couple. In addition to their post-dubstep duo the Mast, they function as writers, directors, poets, and visual artists. Gafori, who is lithe and gorgeous in a post-hippie sort of way, was invited to read her poetry in Assisi, Italy at a Globa ... More >>

A Bite With The Band: Talking Mythology And Twitter Over Spumoni With Ava Luna

A lot has happened since SOTC met Ava Luna two and a half years ago. Drummer Alex Smith has been replaced by the returning Julian Fader, who played with an earlier iteration of the band (in the interim, he was a member of bands like Quilty and a couple others). The backup vocal trio is down to a due ... More >>

Live: Ava Luna Shake Off Their Nerves At The Mercury Lounge

Ava Luna w/Sinkane Mercury Lounge Saturday, August 11 Better than: Your run-of-the-mill, 4/4-time, block-chord buzz band. Ava Luna seems like one of those bands whose goal is to straight-up astound its audience. Though they would probably deny it vehemently for the record, the Brooklyn sextet can' ... More >>

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SONG OF BROOKLYN

An indie-rock ode to Whitman’s borough

The Future Of Silent Barn: The DIY Venue's Next Home, Its "Energy," And Where Those T-Shirts Might Be

"Dog Farts," the official minutes of the committee working to find a new home for Silent Barn's February 20 meeting, outlined some of the concerns leading up to the first Silent Barn Public Meeting, a sort of combination student council meeting, shareholder information session, panel discussion on t ... More >>

Ten New York Bands You Should See At This Weekend's Northside Festival

Making Friendz (aka Tami Hart) plays Shea Stadium tonight.​Northside Festival starts tonight! Finally, your very own chance to see the best emerging local bands taking over Brooklyn bars for four nights... or as we like to call it, "pretty much every weekend in New York ever." We here at Sound ... More >>

Twin Sister's Woozy "Bad Street" Is A Cool Song For A Hot Day

Shawn Brackbill​The Brooklyn quintet Twin Sister will release their first full-length In Heaven on September 27, but the first taste, the burbling, sugary "Bad Street," is tailor-made for a steamy day like today. Lead singer Andrea Estella sweetly asks for her paramour to feed her stories and ... More >>

Northside Festival Announces Initial Lineup, Starring Beirut, Deer Tick, Twin Sister, And Delicate Steve

​The L Magazine's Northside Festival is perhaps the city's finest home-grown music festival, now in its third year of ramming as many bands/artists/filmmakers as possible into the Greenpoint/Williamsburg nexus: "Elaborate and somewhat intimidating" is the way we've described it in the past. Th ... More >>

The Best Local Music Of 2010: Our Annual Mixtape Starring Sweet Bulbs, Marnie Stern, Sharon Van Etten, and Special Guest Hannibal Buress

Yes In My Backyard is a semiweekly column showcasing MP3s from new and emerging local talent. This is a compilation of 2010's best local music, lovingly curated by YIMBY columnist Christopher R. Weingarten. See last year's tape here. R.I.P. Chris Weingarten's old blue trucker hat. Photo by Rebecca ... More >>

Week in Review: Taking Our Talents To South Beach

Sam Horine​In the week we put the worst band name in New York to a vote (Phil and the Osophers, you are no match for Freelance Whales), we watched as LeBron James put his own name in as the most hated in New York, while Kanye West stood proudly at his side. The last place West was seen before ... More >>

Live: Total Slacker, Ava Luna, and Beach Fossils Side Project Red Romans Turn on the Air Conditioning at Union Pool

Total Slacker: It is, apparently, never too hot to do this. All photos by Georgia Kral​Total Slacker, Red Romans, Ava Luna Union Pool Tuesday, July 6 Last night in the freezing (yessss) back room of Union Pool, three Brooklyn acts gave startlingly fresh performances. The bill--Red Romans, a j ... More >>

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This Weekend! James Maynard's Blood Into Wine, Reverend Horton Heat, Glee Live!, Holy Fuck, Nice Nice, Ninjasonik, So So Glos, Ava Luna, Bushick Rooftop Fest, And Much Much More

Tonight, the second viewing of Blood Into Wine, the documentary on Tool frontman James Maynard Keenan's brass-knuckled corkscrew domination of the Arizona winemaking frontier, aptly commences at the City Winery. Meanwhile, cowboy punk Reverend Horton Heat delivers his second sermon of "epically s ... More >>

Tonight! Ava Luna, Holly Miranda, Class Actress, And Deluxx Fluxx

No one shall lay their unworthy eyes upon Holly Miranda without Shrek 3D goggles.​Ava Luna, the band that Christopher R. Weingarten boldly praised as post-every-band-you-like ("post-TVOTR, Dirty Projectors-inflected bedroom soul," to be exact) is headlining Silent Barn, bracketed by a similar ... More >>

This Weekend! Sleigh Bells, Broken Social Scene, Death Set, Ava Luna, Beauty Feast, Dinosaur Feathers, Jonsi w/ Nico Muhly, And Much Much More

Unless you regard yourself as a ticket-scalping monger, you must accept that a Friday roundup begins with four sadly inaccessible sold-out shows: Caribou, Sleigh Bells, Local Natives, and Broken Social Scene. Fortunately, this gives you the opportunity to revel in some well-earned "I'm on a Boat" ... More >>

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Meet Avan Lava, New York's Newest Super-Funky, Fischerspooner-Affiliated Disco Duo

Yes In My Backyard is a semiweekly column showcasing MP3s from new and emerging local talent. ​New York's super-funky disco exports (see Invisible Conga People, Escort) just got maybe their most luscious addition yet. Not to be confused with YIMBY favorite Ava Luna, Avan Lava is lush, sparkli ... More >>

L Magazine's "8 NYC Bands You Need To Hear": Now With Bowtie Haterade

L MagazineTwin SisterAnother year, another edition of L Magazine's "8 NYC Bands You Need To Hear." Said this last time around, but the point bears repeating: handpicking a barful of relatively intriguing unknowns in this city isn't an easy task, nor has it gotten any simpler in the last 12 months, e ... More >>

Damon Dash's Under 100 Is Officially Back! Ava Luna Record Release Show There Tonight

We will all live to play more Big Buck Hunter in this space, guys. Photo by Rebecca Smeyne.​They told us we'd gotten it shut down. They told us that it was called DD172, and that it had become a "hippie art collective right smack in the middle of one of the wealthiest neighborhoods in Manhatta ... More >>

Cancel That: Under 100 Is Officially Not Back, Tonight's Ava Luna Show Has Been Called Off Moved to the Silent Barn

Less Artists More Condos promoter Ariel Panero brings word: tonight's Ava Luna show with Suckers and Marnie Stern, heralded here just hours ago as the epic return of Damon Dash's Under 100 wonderland, has been shut down. Like we say around here, mea culpa. [Update: Silent Barn picked this one u ... More >>

Week in Review: DIY Snitchin

We bleed for this thing. Photo by Rebecca Smeyne.​In the week Jay-Z went all the way to the top of the singles list on our 2009 Pazz & Jop Critics' Poll, the rapper told SOTC that his two favorite songs of last year both came from Kings of Leon. With an honorable mention tip of the cap to the ... More >>

Please Welcome Ava Luna, the Post-TVOTR, Dirty Projectors-Inflected Bedroom Soul Project You've Been Waiting For (Download the Proof: "Clips")

Yes In My Backyard is a semiweekly column showcasing MP3s from new and emerging local talent. ​Brooklyn's Ava Luna is the rare band that needs to be heard to be believed. In the band's hazy, floaty, post-TVOTR-maybe conceit, post-punk grooves, soaring soul harmonies, and classic indie detachm ... More >>

Death By Audio Turns Into a Sculptural Maze for Three Weeks This Fall

For three weeks this fall, everybody's favorite 40-oz-frenzied noise den Death By Audio will consist almost entirely of a life-sized sculptural maze of narrow corridors, unexpected turns, and actual dead-ends. It's an elaborate construction made specifically for a self-contained 23-day-long instal ... More >>