Sheffield, UK punks Rat Cage have a pair of ferocious new songs out today. A-side “In The Shadow Of The Bomb” is relentlessly intense; imagine one of those cartoon brawls often depicted as a roving cloud of dust, except scarily realistic and triumphantly violent. B-side “Scared Of The Truth” is more of a s...

Earlier this month, something truly silly happened. A Pavement-themed musical called Slanted! Enchanted! had a three-day run in New York, and it left our critic Arielle Gordon fairly nonplussed: “Maybe the awkwardness is the point. Maybe it’ll all make sense in the context of some forthcoming Pavement mockumentary.” Well, G...

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Yo La Tengo have an annual tradition. Every year, the New Jersey indie lifers play eight back-to-back Hanukkah shows at New York’s Bowery Ballroom. (The shows used to happen at Maxwell’s in Hoboken before that club shut down.) For their Hanukkah shows, YLT bring out surprise guests and play unexpected covers, and the whole af...