Shilpa Ray Portrait of a Lady (cover photography by Ebru Yildiz) In her latest album for Northern Spy Records, Shilpa Ray gets personal, political, and powerful on Portrait of A Lady. With her signature alto belt and harmonium accompanied by a range of other...
Shilpa Ray "Bootlickers of the Patriarchy" New York-based artist Shilpa Ray has just released a timely must-listen with “Bootlickers of the Patriarchy,” a 2-song single featuring the title track as well as a remarkable cover of Ministry’s “Effigy (I’m Not An).”...
The New Colossus Festival has been hosting free shows just outside 18th Ward Brewing in East Williamsburg almost every Sunday since mid-April. This past weekend, I was tied up for most of the afternoon, but I was able to get to the corner of Richardson St. and...
Welcome to my list of what I loved 2022! It was a huge year for great releases and I'm so excited to share with you the things I loved the most. This is not presented as or meant to be a definitive "best of" list, the contributors who wished to send lists did...
Welcome to the FTA contributors lists of what they loved in 2022! This is not presented as or meant to be a "best of" list and each list comes from the individual contributors as their own (and as such, you will see some repeats along the way). They serve more...
Clockwise: Jawbox, Winter Wolf/The Dilators, Julien Baker, Man or Astro-Man? (photos by Kate Hoos) What an incredible summer we just had...well if you don't factor in that we're still in a global pandemic, the stripping of reproductive rights, the climate...
Hello and welcome to FTA’s list of what we are excited for this Bandcamp Friday, aka every music nerds favorite day! A bunch of us weighed in on what we’ve been into lately and we’ve got lots of goodies old and new (check out our picks from April). But don’t...
MG Stillwaggon of Spite Fuxxx performing at Valentines Village of Love (photo by Kate Hoos) What's better than having a valentine? Having 24 singing valentines of course! And even better, raising money for Planned Parenthood. Presented by NY Night Train,...
Here we are, the very last day of 2021 and it was...a year. Ups and downs, ins and outs – suffice it to say, it was a pretty wild year. And throughout that year, A LOT of incredible music thankfully came into the world to help anchor us when times were...
TVOD at Rippers (photo by Kate Hoos) I'm not one to really ever go to the beach...the sand, the heat, all the rigamarole with getting there...it's just not for me (many have tried to convince me to change my ways over the years, but trust me, I'm a grouch at...