Wallows packed Rockefeller Center Friday morning for The Today Show in celebration of their new album, Model.
Running through four songs - “Are You Bored Yet?” “Bad Dream,” “Calling After Me,” and “Your Apartment” - the band was electric as the sun rose on New York City. A sea of fans stretched a whole city block, many in the crowd camping out over night after leaving the Bowery Ballroom show the band put on Thursday evening.
Wallows kicks off its Model Tour on August 6th in Portland before playing a sold out Madison Square Garden on August 23rd. Check out Model and everything else about Wallows over here.
Squirrel Flower played a sold out Union Pool on Tuesday night - running through songs from her latest album - Tomorrow’s Fire - before dipping into her back catalog during the audience request filled encore.
There were moments when the venue was silent - you couldn’t hear the trucks flying by on the BQE outside its windows, no idle chit chat between songs - just Squirrel Flower’s voice and guitar warming the walls. It was lovely to see that sort of attention paid, a crowd ready to follow Ella wherever she wanted to go. She’s a magnificent performer.
Squirrel Flower plays National Sawdust with Julia Jacklin tonight before crisscrossing the US in June and heading to Europe in July. Check out Tomorrow’s Fire and everything else about Squirrel Flower over here.
Claire Rousay is playing in her room. Songs from Claire’s new album Sentiment wrap the bedroom walls in sound, the amp in the corner vibrating the makeshift nightstand.
It was one of the most intimate and recognizable performances I’ve seen - shoes at the foot of the bed, a magazine on the lip of the mattress that will fall to floor tonight, memories and premonitions tacked to the walls. The hum of Claire’s voice. It’s emo, it’s pop music. The idea of creating art under your bedsheets is as relatable as the sun rising each morning. I’d like to photograph every Claire Rousay performance until the end of time, just to see the moments pass in that room, the new noise being heard from the street through the open window. A truly monumental live show.
Claire brings her bedroom to Europe starting tomorrow in Amsterdam. Go see her show.
Check out Sentiment and everything else about Claire Rousay over here.
CSS are on the road for their first US tour in 11 years - packing Webster Hall on Saturday night for a rousing set at the start of their IT’S BEEN A NUMBER OF YEARS TOUR 2024. Lovefoxxx, Ana Rezende, Carolina Parra and Luiza Sá reformed to celebrate the 20th anniversary of the band.
The band heads to Boston on Sunday night before heading west for shows and festival slots at Kilby Block Party and Just Like Heaven. The band heads overseas in June for a summer run through Europe. Make sure you make it out to a show.
Haley Dahl - the virtuoso - an artist with enough energy to power the universe. She’s from another planet, a phantom walking amongst us humans.
Haley and a compact version of her usual sprawling band, rolled through a beautiful set opening for CSS on Saturday night. The band played “Claw Machine,” one of the many pleasures of the new film I SAW THE TV GLOW. Go see the film, Haley is electric in it. “Claw Machine,” and the rest of the I SAW THE TV GLOW soundtrack, is out May 10th. We now all eagerly await the next Sloppy Jane album.
