Blog: EAR FARM

1 July, 2010 8:30 pm to 11:30 pm Who: Toro y Moi , Body Language, Idiot Glee Where: Glasslands Show Info: 21+, 8:30pm, $10 Watch: "Blessa" by Toro Y Moi

30 June, 2010 8:00 pm to 11:00 pm Who: Gordon Voidwell, Oberhofer, Shark? Where: The Studio at Webster Hall Show Info: 18+, 8:00pm, FREE Listen: "Shark?" by Shark?

29 June, 2010 6:00 pm to 9:00 pm Who: Dinosaur Feathers , Lowry, The Casey Shea Band Where: Brooklyn Bowl Show Info: 21+, 6:00pm, FREE Listen: "Vendela Vida" by Dinosaur Feathers

R.I.P. Pete Quaife , the bassist for the Kinks, who died on Friday at age 66 Blender rounds up the 50 worst artists in music history The CBGB's legendary bathroom has been re-created in a museum exhibit Grizzly Bear interrupted their Glastonbury set yesterday to break the news that England lost their World Cup game against Germany D'Angelo is actually making music again, whoa Today in Beatles auctions: a cartoon drawn by John Lennon during his famous "bed-in" protest [...]

The second annual Northside Festival kicked off Thursday night, and while we were over at Spike Hill rocking the official EF showcase, contributor Sahara Shrestha snapped some excellent pics from the Thao and Mirah with The Most of All, These United States, and Chica Vas show at Music Hall of Williamsburg. Check out the gallery below and stay tuned for (hopefully) a photo recap from our own show. Chica Vas [...]

Artist: ZAZA From: Brooklyn, NY Sound: Washes of late-night drones and whispered melodies, shoegaze strikes back Similar Artists: Ride, Black Rebel Motorcycle Club, Slowdive, Cocteau Twins Watch: "Always On" It makes way too much sense that ZAZA is a product of New York City. In a place where it's the norm to feel utterly alone amongst a sea of isolated souls, ZAZA is the ideal slow-burn soundtrack to your late-night existential angst. Pounding the [...]

Thanks to all the bands who played our Northside Showcase and everyone who came out last night! How did we miss this? Check out Alex Trabek going Auto-Tune on Wednesday's Jeopardy At the year's halfway point, Flavorwire rounds up 25 albums from 2010 you need to hear Meanwhile, Largehearted Boy spotlights some other blogs you need to read in 2010 Beef of the week: Jerry Seinfeld vs. Lady Gaga In the wake of the Drake fiasco, [...]

Make sure to come out to Spike Hill tonight for EAR FARM's official Northside Festival showcase (doors @7pm)!! Gregg Allman is recovering after a successful liver transplant Meme alert 2k10: watch as Devo "gets iced" by Das Racist backstage on The Colbert Report Tupac's song "Dear Mama" will enter the National Recording Registry in order to be preserved by the US Library of Congress Okay, so now apparently the Beach Boys reunion will definitely not include Brian Wilson [...]

We're very excited to announce our involvement in the second annual Northside Festival , a four-day celebration of all the sweet sights and sounds brewing around the Williamsburg and Greenpoint neighborhoods. Headed by the always excellent L Magazine , this year's festival promises to build on 2009's success, and as savvy veterans of last year's inaugural installment , we here at EAR FARM also pledge to keep the good times going this year. As such, we're once again taking over Spike Hill , perhaps the most centrally located venue in the whole darn neighborhood, [...]

James Mercer's voice can become tiring. I never actually discovered that independently, but as I drove my girlfriend to the airport the other week she pointed it out to me and it made perfect sense. Whilst I thoroughly enjoyed the Shins ' last offering, Wincing the Night Away , it marked the end of a fling I had with the band. After I hearing that album and watching them at Terminal 5 a few years back, I made little effort to follow their progress on new offerings (which was fortuitous). So, when my brother [...]

Google plans to roll out a music download service tied to their search engine later this year, with an online subscription service to follow in 2011 What does the sun sound like ? Researchers in Sheffield recorded it for your listening pleasure Eminem had a busy Monday night, playing the roof of the Ed Sullivan Theatre as well as a surprise show at Bowery Ballroom What's that buzz? Oh, it's Kid Cudi, Best Coast, and a Vampire Weekend dude joining forces for Converse [...]

How about some firsthand "haunted graffiti" from Ariel Pink? Yep, we're talking about an autographed 73 of Ariel Pink's Haunted Graffiti's Round and Round (a UK-only edition), yours for the taking if you're up for it. And by "up for it", we simply mean hitting us up at mail@earfarm.com with your name and something along the lines of "Ariel Pink" in the subject line. On Tuesday, June 29th, we'll select a winner entirely at random. Consider it a primer for Ariel Pink's upcoming summer tour with recent True Panther [...]

The Beach Boys are reuniting for their 50th anniversary, and Mike Love reports that Brian Wilson will be along for the ride The Walkmen unveil the cover art for their new album Lisbon as well as a bunch of fall tour dates In other album news, Leonard Cohen is plotting a new full-length album for 2011 And in other other album news, Clinic will return with Bubblegum , their fifth LP, this October via Domino Records Want to sleep [...]

John Lennon's handwritten lyrics to "A Day In the Life" just sold for $1.2 million , seems like a decent investment actually In honor of Father's Day yesterday, BeatCrave considers the six worst music industry fathers Ed O'Brien hints that the next Radiohead album may be out sometime this year Rock Band 3 promises a very cool feature: a Squier Stratocaster that lets you play both real and virtual guitar at the same time Suge Knight and Kanye West [...]

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This one, right here , this was my dream... my wish. And it didn't come true. So I'm taking it back. I'm taking them all back. I don't really read music blogs anymore, do you? Seriously. Here's all I frequent anymore: BrooklynVegan and Largehearted Boy . Strange that, since a ton of the posts on BrooklynVegan are recycled press releases that I've likely received mere minutes before seeing them posted on the Veeg. Same goes for LHB too, with so much of the stuff on that site coming from the same Digg, [...]

For the first time, EF had a correspondent entrenched in the manic heat of Bonnaroo to report back on the highs and lows of this rural Tennessee institution. Here, contributor Laurie Kamens considers the most over and underrated acts from this year's festival. Billed as a modern-day Woodstock, over 100 bands played this past weekend (June 10-13) in Manchester, TN at the 9th annual Bonnaroo Music and Arts Festival. The Tennessee farm was packed with over 150,000 heat exhausted hippies, hipsters and frat boys for four days of music, mud, comedy and body odor. [...]

Just when I thought MGMT couldn't possibly top their video for "Flash Delirium", they go ahead and deliver the equally head-scratching Ikea-assembly-gone-wrong visual jolt of "It's Working". It's as though they're daring us to make any sense out of it. Go on, try....we've got it below along with some less obtuse but nonetheless rewarding new clips from Ava Luna (what looks like a single take in Prospect Park for "Clips") and Damien Jurado (pounding PBR tallboys and burying the dead in "Arkansas"). Probably the most entertaining 12 or so minutes you'll spend all day.... [...]

R.I.P. Parliament-Funkadelic guitarist Garry Shider British Sea Power is the latest band to record a World Cup anthem, download it for free HERE Stream Wolf Parade's new album Expo 86 in its entirety over on the band's MySpace page Les Savy Fav will release their new album Root For Ruin on September 14th (a date which already has releases from the Walkmen and Interpol!) The long list for the 2010 Polaris Music Prize [...]

One of life's charming little paradoxes, change is about the only constant any of us can expect. It's really up to us what we make of it. Or, to put it another way (and to borrow a phrase from the esteemed life-coaching of Ted Nugent), "You're born at Point A, you die at Point B…........kick maximum ass." When beloved "Montoronto" trio Sister Suvi announced they would be parting ways last year, guitarist/bassist/vocalist Patrick Gregoire did just that. Distilling the startling array of sounds, moods, and influences that defined Suvi and Islands (another of his former [...]

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