A Meat Puppets, Dinosaur Jr., Built to Spill lineup may well have appeared on countless “dream bill” lists compiled by music nerds of all kinds, making last night’s 90’s throwback just, wow. Fresh from having done so for the ATP festival, BTS were there to perform their orgasmic 1997 album Perfect From Now On, whose [...]

The McCarren Park Pool was the perfect venue for the double-whammy, both-bands-are-awesome lineup that this show had goin’ on. While certainly there are plenty of people out there who are fans of both Built to Spill and Cat Power, this enormous former public pool provided the chill vibe and spacious comfort-zone atmosphere in which adorers [...]

This show came about only after months of anticipation.  I purchased the tickets eagerly in March or so for the May date, only to learn the horrific news that Doug Martsch had injured his poor little eye and would have to postpone the entire tour for a season.  In between I managed to catch a [...]

When we found out our pal John, a soon-to-be-lawyer who lives in Washington, D.C., was coming into New York for the weekend, we decided to set aside our ever-important social obligations in order to entertain the pants off him 24/7.  We’ve known John since forever, and he conveniently shares with us one of our most favorite pastimes, nay, only [...]