In its sixth year, Fuck Yeah Fest had the explicit intention of benefitting California's state parks, and implicit intention of scaring away media outlets afraid of things with "Fuck" in the title.…   Read Story »

According to their MySpace, Babies is the project of Vivian Girls' Cassie Ramone, Woods bassist Kevin Morby, Bossy drummer Justin Sullivan, and Stupid Party's Nathanael Stark on bass. All that said,…   Read Story »

In their Michael La Burt-directed video for "To Clean," Woods dug deep into ritualistic over-eating, band-on-band violence, and a twitchy, almost birdlike performance of the Songs Of Shame standout.…   Read Story »

After the scene portrait painted by Woodsist and Captured Tracks on Independence weekend, a Bowery bill boasting Woods and Real Estate wouldn't register as a must-see despite those bands standing at…   Read Story »

This past weekend was all about the USA, and nothing says America quite like a day full of shitgaze in a graffitied, degenerated yard under some train tracks in Bushwick (or "East Williamsburg," if…   Read Story »

Woods have been kicking around Brooklyn in various forms for some time, but it's the fourth full-length Songs Of Shame, with longstanding Vanishing Voices Jarvis Taveniere and G. Lucas Crane plus…   Read Story »

When James Toth, aka Wooden Wand, released Harem of the Sundrum And The Witness Figg in 2005, I coulda sworn (and did) that he was going to continue with this lo-fi scratchiness, providing a noisier…   Read Story »

By Amrit Singh & Brandon Stosuy On Friday we shook off the early-morning cobwebs and made a beeline to the Pitchfork/Windish Bash in time to catch the last couple tracks by psychedelic post-Vanishing…   Read Story »