This Week's Nostalgia (5/15-5/20)

Taken at the Bell House. Hall & Oates headline the Great Googa Mooga Festival on Sunday.

By Trista Hou (Binshu Hou) & Chris

Trista is being a good student and preparing for finals, so while she did send over her picks for This Week's Nostalgia, she didn't have time to write about any of them. That's why I'm chiming in to highlight what's going on this week in New York City because, holy shit, there are a lot of great shows to check out. 

EULA (who played FN's 1st Anniversary Concert) will be performing twice this week. Tonight you can catch them at The Studio at Webster Hall and then again on Thursday at Death By Audio. What's that? You haven't seen EULA yet? Well then you're slacking. Get out to one of these shows, because they're one hell of a live act. Other more intimate shows worth noting are instrumental psychedelic weirdos Delicate Steve, who will headline Mercury Lounge on Thursday and lo-fi connoisseur R. Stevie Moore, who will play 285 Kent on Friday.

On the bigger side of things, Beach House will be playing a small show at Bowery Ballroom before heading off on tour. They'll be back to play SummerStage on July 23. Their (very good) new album Bloom is out today.

On Thursday, Legendary reggae producer and dub master Lee "Scratch" Perry plays Gramercy Theatre. We also have the two-day Great Googa Mooga Festival this weekend at Prospect Park to look forward to, which will feature The Roots headlining on Saturday and then mother-fucking Hall & Oates on Sunday. Don't worry, they won't actually harm any of your mothers.

...or will they?

Check out the rest of the week's shows below...

FN News Roundup: April 23, 2012

Cat Power @ Webster Hall, 8/26/11

Hey everyone! Thanks again for coming through to our 1st Anniversary Party over the weekend, and special thanks to EULA, Grandfather, The Barrens, ZZZ's, Liquid Light Lab, and Fontana's Bar  for everything they did to make it kick so much ass. More goodness to come soon, but in the meantime, have a whole ton of news!

• At long last, Cat Power will be releasing her new studio album, Sun, on September 11 via Matador Records! (Stereogum)


• Meanwhile, her contemporary Fiona Apple is building up to the release of her own long-awaited new studio album, The Idler Hand... (out June 18 on Epic), with the LP's first official single. Stream "Every Single Night" after the jump! (FADER)


• With Hole back in the public eye recently for cool and not-quite-so-cool reasons, a new clip of former frontwoman Courtney Love and Nirvana's Kurt Cobain surfaced over the weekend: a duet entitled "Stinking Of You" (Consequence of Sound)


• Despite the rain and subsequent cold here in NYC, summer is definitely right around the corner, as heralded by the release of the Central Park Summerstage lineup featuring Kurt Vile, Alabama Shakes, Gary Clark Jr. and more (BrooklynVegan)


• Finally, bask in some of the limited edition bounty from this past weekend's Record Store Day with new singles and B-sides from St. Vincent, Beach House, Sigur Ros, and Animal Collective (All Via Pitchfork)

FN News Roundup: April 13, 2012

Cloud Nothings @ Mercury Lounge, 3/27/12

Happy Friday the 13th, Jason Voorhees! It's been a crazy awesome and packed week, and I'm betting most of you are mentally (if not physically) already at a happy hour to cap it off. If you want to whet your appetite for the epic 1st Anniversary party we're throwing down next Saturday, you should come out to Spike Hill in Williamsburg starting at 7pm for a Pop Up Gallery featuring our friends at Liquid Light Lab, who will give you a taste of the lightshow skills they'll be throwing down at our gathering.

Meanwhile, have some news to read:

• Future Nostalgia contenders Cloud Nothings, who recently rocked our faces off live at Mercury Lounge, have released a trippy animated video for Attack On Memory anthem "Stay Useless" - check it out after the jump! (MTVU)


• The Ramones' very own Joey Ramone is releasing his sophomore LP, ...Ya Know?, on May 22, despite the notable handicap of having ben deceased for over a decade. Check out its leadoff track "Rock 'N' Roll Is The Answer" below, which will be available as a red vinyl 7" on Record Store Day (Slicing Up Eyeballs)


• Bummed you're not out in California at Coachella this weekend? Well you can still watch it online, dummy! But be sure to go outside at least, as the weather here in NYC is getting great (Coachella)


• ...But hey, if you ARE there, you might get to see the long-dead Tupac perform as a hologram too. Because THAT's not a desecration of his legacy or anything (Consequence of Sound)


• In happier hip-hop news: it's the 20th anniversary of The Pharcyde's classic album Bizarre Ride II The Pharcyde, and the group will be releasing a deluxe-edition singles box set with instrumentals, remixes, a poster, a puzzle (??), and more. The box even plays part of "Oh Shit" when it opens. THAT's attention to detail (Pitchfork)


• And finally, bliss out in this nice weather with the new Beach House single, "Lazuli," over here! (Stereogum)

FN News Roundup: March 20, 2012

Happy Spring, true believers! We've got a glut of great news to share today, check it:

• Oh yes. As foretold by the seers, Neil Young And Crazy Horse will be releasing their new LP Americana on June 5. The legends' first new album since 2003's Greendale AND the first to feature the full Crazy Horse lineup since 1996's Broken Arrow will be a full-on American folk tribute with tracks like "This Land Is Your Land" and "Oh Susannah" (Rolling Stone)


• Tickets for Hot Chip's 2012 summer shows are on sale!!!!! (Hot Chip)


• Check out the video for "Adult" from Ceremony's very awesome new LP Zoo below (Matador)


• Stream Sharon Van Etten's Tramp B-Side "Life of His Own," and then catch her on Conan later on tonight! (Pitchfork)


• Questlove of The Roots continues to be a total badass by curating Shuffle Culture at BAM, a two-night (April 19 & 20) musical experience featuring Reggie Watts, Deerhoof, & more! (BAM)


• Sub Pop will be fully rocking Record Store Day (April 21) with a limited edition blue vinyl 7" of rare & unreleased Beach House tracks, an artist sampler, and much more. You can pre-order Beach House's new album Bloom (out May 15) to get it on limited edition white vinyl. Good times, guys (Sub Pop)

FN News Roundup: March 8, 2012

Yeah let's do this!

• We got our first look at a couple of scenes from LCD Soundsystem's long-awaited documentary Shut Up And Play The Hits today - check out the footage after the jump. (Pitchfork)


• Hot on the heels of their new single "Myth" yesterday, Beach House has confirmed that they're releasing their fourth LP Bloom on May 15 via Sub Pop, as well as going on a tour this summer that'll include a July 23rd Central Park Summerstage slot! (Beats Per Minute)


• Uh, Marilyn Manson has a new single out from his upcoming album Born Villain (full LP out May 8). In case you were wondering. (Consequence of Sound)


• Go see Stephin Merritt (The Magnetic Fields) at Barnes & Noble in Union Square tonight, dummy! (BrooklynVegan)

Listen To A New Beach House Song, "Myth"

Spring is almost sorta kinda in the air, and with that comes a new track from the appropriately named Baltimore dream pop duo Beach House. The band released "Myth" late last night, further cementing rumors  that their fourth album, Bloom, would be released on May 15 on Sub Pop.

Give it a listen below and keep an ear out for more goodness to come.

Listen To AIR's "Seven Stars" Feat. Victoria LeGrand (Beach House)

As we reported recently, electronic-leaning Frenchmen AIR are coming back with a new album on February 6 entitled Le Voyage Dans La Lune. One of the key guests on this album is Victoria LeGrand, frontwoman of the comparably laid-back Beach House, and NME points to a stream of their collaborative track "Seven Stars."

Give it a listen over at their site, and get excited for the full album to come!