Remember all those shows that were on AmEx presale a few days ago? Well now they are on regular sale, plus a bunch of others: Black Kids and Mates of State at Music Hall of Williamsburg on April 5 and Webster Hall on April 6 is on Tickets Cursive at Bowery Ballroom on March 10 is on Tickets, their M...

Lots of tickets on sale or going or presale: Israeli band Idan Raichel Project at Town Hall on March 26, tickets here The Gaslight Anthem at Webster Hall on March 27, tickets here Anathallo at Mercury Lounge on March 4, tickets here The Airborne Toxic Event at Bowery Ballroom on March 8, tickets her...

Marco Benevento (photo by Greg Aiello) Yessir, it’s been another year, and one that boasted its fair share of fair jams.  Therefore, I have made my annual stab at a list of favorites. Despite any misgivings, I think I have assembled a list of albums that hit me in the right spot at the right ...

Image: Amazon Filter Magazine has released more bands’ and musicians’ Top Ten Albums of 2008 lists. This week MGMT was the most frequently named artist. Check out who Diplo, the Black Kids, and others named as their favorites: The Faint The Watson Twins Diplo Snow Patrol ’s Gary Li...

On Monday, I interview Adam Mansbach about his new novel, "The End of the Jews." Here’s part one. Here’s the audio. Luke: "How did your white peers react to your interest in black culture?" Adam: "They were the ones who gave me s— about it. They were the on...

Starting off our birthday shenanigans the only way we could see fit (srsly), the kids at Girls & Boys hollered it up this week and got DJ sets together from Purple Crush, their new signing Mike Genius (who we've been wailing about for a minute now) and the official after party for those young ru...

Black Kids are an American indie band who seem to be making a name for themselves over in the UK, possibly because they sound completely British, and fit in to the Brit Music Scene much more than the American one. Actually, going this route of getting big in the UK before launching fully in the Stat...

Given the between songs stuff which the BBC have left in during the Winehouse set, you have to wonder what the hell they've been axing when you get a very obvious jump cut from song to song. Much of the between tracks bits we've seen have been attempts to raise the status of jailed thug Blake to som...

concert review: Cut Copy, Black Kids, Mobius Band @ Phoenix (Toronto, Ontario), May 9, 2008 What differences there may have been between the three bands that played the Phoenix last Friday, the one thing they did have in common was that they all got our booty shaking, and as the night went on increa...

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