Last night the Northside Festival kicked off in north Williamsburg. Last night’s most appetizing bills were at Europa, or at Glasslands (which had BTW Beacon and Sweden’s Niki & The Dove), or Music Hall Of Williamsburg (which had GZA do Liquid Swords), though things really kick into full swing today, with a big show ...

Cold Cave’s second proper full-length Cherish The Light Years amplified the urgency in Wes Eisold’s icy new wave, and was a hell of a record as a result. Today Matador let go of a previously unreleased b-side from the record, “Believe In My Blood,” demonstrating that even the sessions’ castoffs w...

BTW Cold Cave played to a sweat-drenched capacity crowd at the Ukrainian Cultural Center for a show ending with Wes Eisold being pulled into the clamoring masses. Another BTW alumnus Austra seduced the audience with her operatic vocals and sultry synthesizers. Prurient summoned the ghosts of Ministry with their caustic shards of noise. We&#8...

If you didn’t know it before, Wes Eisold’s recent Summer Mix should’ve clued you into the breadth of the Cold Cave leader’s listening habits. His remix of Belle & Sebastian’s “I Didn’t See It Coming” would make sense on the aforementioned, really, planted so...

Cold Cave band leader Wes Eisold explains: “On the last Cold Cave tour, a new friend gave me a mix cd and this is my return, though I wanted to share it with you too. Made with you in mind, Songs for the summer indoors against the exhaustion of traffic outside.” If you’re expecting suffocating [...]