The word “Kong” tends to conjure images of angry, confused giant gorillas rampaging through Depression-era New York, or of dogs frantically attempting to extract peanut butter from rubber toys. “Kong,” the new song from the proggy German electro-pop group the Notwist, sounds like neither. Instead, it&#...

New York bands played shows together prior to murder of two members of The Yellow Dogs earlier this month    

Tonight in Brooklyn dozens of musicians — including members of TV On The Radio, the Clean, the Men, the Rapture, and Interpol among many others — will perform at benefit concert in honor of Yellow Dogs, the Iranian rock band that saw two members and a frequent collaborator gunned down in a horrific murder-suicide last [...]

The concert will also raise money for the deceased's families and surviving members of the New York based band    

The music world and the world at large was stunned this week when three men, including two members of Brooklyn-based Iranian rock band Yellow Dogs, were gunned down by a former member of another transplanted Iranian band, the Free Keys, in a murder-suicide. The surviving members of both bands already released a statement, but now [...]