Sylvan Esso is coming to Albany with Lucy Dacus on May 24. The show will be at Jupiter Hall, which is inside of Crossgates Mall. Tickets are currently on sale and are $24. Most other shows on this tour are already sold out, so if you’re thinking about going, get your ticket sooner rather than later!
Hand Habits\’s new album Wildly Idle (Humble Before The Void) was released earlier this month on Woodsist Records. Noisey has done a great interview with Meg, and Pitchfork had some great things to say about the album.
Give a few of the tracks a listen above, and seek out the whole album from your distribution channel of choice.
Photo: Shannon Straney
So Low Shows is a YouTube channel featuring videos of songs performed by local musicians across genres. The first video that has been released so far features They Are Gutting A Body of Water performing Loosies.
Subscribe to So Low Show\’s channel to be kept in the loop about future releases.
Girl Blue recently released her new music video for Drunk, featuring students from the Purchase Conservatory of Dance. Drunk was featured on Girl Blue’s debut EP “I Am Not A Star,” released in October of last year.
You can stay up to date with Girl Blue on Facebook, or catch her live at Caffe Lena in Saratoga Sunday, February 12 at 7PM.
Local cassette label Bee Side Cassettes has released an awesome project where local and semi-local bands have covered the Donnie Darko Soundtrack, twice.
Artists featured on the soundtrack are free cake for every creature, No One and the Somebodies, Bilge Rat, ylayali, Morus Alba, Jorge Verde, Meaner Pencil, Holling, the Wicker Women, Tim Woulfe, Crie, Dodge Dirt, Apostrophe S and Another Michael, Palemen, Megan the Runt, Callout Culture, and Scott Goodin.
You can stream the entire project below through Bandcamp, or if you\’re the collecting type, Bee Side Cassettes has made a limited run of 100 cassettes and zines for purchase. All proceeds from the sale will be donated to Black Lives Matter: Upstate NY. Digital proceeds will be donated too.
Stream below, and learn more on the album\’s bandcamp page.