Have you heard of The Dig? You may have by now because the crowd pleasing garage band has scored a spot on tour with Editors and The Antlers, playing Terminal 5 this Friday night.  Should be a really great show so check back with Discosalt for full concert photo coverage and review next week. [...]

If you can look this far ahead into your calendar,  Labor day weekend, September 3-5, ATP (All Tomorrow’s Parties) will host the third annual ATP Festival at Kutsher’s Country Club in Monticello, NY. Three days of unbelievable bands performing, with Sunday’s acts selected by indie director Jim Jarmusch.
Here are the details so far:
Friday- Dont Look [...]

In this short featured interview from Upper Playground’s Walrus TV,  Ricky Powell interviews his longtime friend, 70’s New York graffiti writer “Team”. Take a little nostalgic tour of Avenue C, hang at Team’s East Village apartment and learn the origin of his name and his attraction to painting and installation art.

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Couldn’t resist this one. Official music video for Boy Crisis’s single, “The Fountain of Youth”, directed by Jordan Fish, off the album ” “. Boy Crisis is a Brooklyn (where else) based band which features Victor Vasquez of the rap duo Das Racist. The band is heavily influenced by the post-disco/post-punk sound of the early [...]

Discosalt Video of the Week 2/7/10: These go to 11. This weeks video of the week for “In Your Heart” comes from Brooklyn’s volume knob maximalist trio A Place to Bury Strangers off their appropriately titled sophomore album Exploding Head.  While the album came out last fall, it’s worth revisiting.  An obvious nod to My [...]

On February 25th, Partners in Health, in collaboration with Svedka Vodka and Discosalt are throwing a benefit show to raise money for Haiti at  Grasslands Gallery in Brooklyn. We are really excited to participate in this event which will feature art on auction from Discosalt Artists  and performances by Annie and the BeeKeepers, Apollo Run, [...]

While updating the Discosalt Shows Calendar, I  saw that Oakland based indie pop band Rogue Wave (formerly signed to Sub Pop, now to Brushfire Records) have a few shows coming up in New York. First, at The Music Hall of Williamsburg on 3/2 and then, The Bowery Ballroom on 3/3.
I caught an independent music documentary [...]

On Friday Night, The Joy Formidable, Passion Pit and the Rural Alberta Advatage came to New York’s Terminal 5 and Discosalt friend Backseatsandbar was there to fill you in on what you missed.  The show was the first of several for each of the bands, with Passion Pit playing three consecutive sold out shows [...]

What: Fresh Geezers
Where: Fresh Factory
1053 Flushing Avenue between Morgan and Knickerbocker, off the L train Morgan Stop
When: December 10, 2009 – January 10, 2010
7:00 pm to 10:00 pm
Damage: Free
Just in time for the holidays, The London Police and Galo team up for some brotherly love and gifts for you at Brooklyn’s Factory Fresh.  After more than [...]

This Thursday at le poissonrouge, come drag a toe and rage against the dancing wasteland at OFF THE GRID, a once-a-month event which focuses on dance music that you won’t hear on a typical Friday or Saturday night.  It will focus on a collage of Mutant Disco, Punk Funk, No Wave, Early Electro and rare [...]

Not only the future of Bedford Avenue but emerging Brooklyn based artist: Imminent Disaster. ID’s work focuses on large scale street art installations and is driven by the ephemerality and decay of modern urban life and the vestiges of human narrative visible and becoming invisible within it. Disaster’s most recent works build on the idea [...]

I’ve never been a huge advocate of Vampire Weekend and now I have another good reason. Not only does their new song “couzin” suck an egg but the video totally rips off  Discosalt friend and favorite Aakash Nihalani’s signature box art.  When I first saw the video I thought maybe Aakash had given the band [...]