NEWS ROUNDUP: Yoko Ono, A Tribe Called Quest & More
AudioFemme's news round up of the week featuring Yoko Ono, A Tribe Called Quest, and the oral history of Space Jam.
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NEWS ROUNDUP: New Tracks, New Kendrick, & SWSW
New Tracks By New York Artists First up is “Your Best American Girl” by Brooklyn’s Mitski. The song is from Puberty 2, which will be released via Dead Oceans in June. It’s a sorrowful track about living up to...
NEWS ROUNDUP: Parquet Courts, Bernie Sanders, & Animal Collective
Parquet Courts Debut New Songs The Brooklyn-via-Texas punks performed “Dust” and “Outside” on WFUV, and also announced an upcoming album titled Human Performance. “Dust” has a loping, cowboy Western feel, spacing tendrils of guitar riffs between suffocating lyrics:...
LIVE REVIEW: Honduras @ The Knitting Factory
Minutes before the band gets on stage, I watch the crowd come together. For some reason at Knitting Factory, it’s always a mix of people you wouldn’t imagine listening to the artists playing that night, trickling in from the bar or...
BEST OF 2014: Best Tracks from NYC Bands
There were a lot of great songs released in 2014, and many came from bands who are from New York City (or, like many of us here, just currently call it home). Here are some of the year’s best...
A History of Siren Fest & 4Knots
The fourth annual 4Knots Music Festival is slated to wash ashore at South Street Seaport this Saturday, July 12th, and we couldn’t be more excited. The festival, curated by The Village Voice, gets better each year, with Dinosaur Jr., Mac...
ALBUM REVIEW: Parquet Courts “Sunbathing Animal”
Following their highly acclaimed 2012 album Light Up Gold, Brooklyn-based punks Parquet Courts delve into something more disembodied and fragmented in Sunbathing Animal, out June 3 via What’s Your Rupture? and Mom + Pop Music. Their sound is essentially...
TRACK REVIEW: Parquet Courts “Sunbathing Animal”
Parquet Courts, besides being the only (I think) garage-punk quartet to ever show Ridgewood, Queens the limelight it deserves in “Stoned and Starving,” are both from and intensely representative of Brooklyn’s DIY culture. They keep it simple and keep...
Lindsey’s SXSW 2014 Rundown
Another year of South by Southwest has come and gone. It was a landmark year for us at AudioFemme, as we hosted our first ever SXSW showcases. It was certainly a learning experience, to say the least. Just as...
AudioFemme’s Best of 2013
From elaborate roll-outs to surprise releases, 2013 was a banner year for comebacks, break-outs, break-ups, and overnight sensations. The fact that the most oblique content could cause rampant controversy to reverberate through the blogosphere turned every song into a...