Lifted Bells

Also Bad Religion, The Specials, Taking Back Sunday, Agent Orange, and more.

Billed as an Owen show, the headliner at Beat Kitchen last night (8/2) was actually American Football! "Welcome to our first public practice as American Football," said the band before launching into their hour-long set...

Owen @ Beat Kitchen, June 2013 (more by Jeff Ryan) Owen (aka Mike Kinsella) is a busy guy these days with Owls and American Football both back in action, Their / They're / There shows, and solo dates...

Ann Arbor, MI's Pity Sex and Indiana's Cloakroom are labelmates on Run For Cover Records. Pity Sex just recently released their shoegaze-y dream pop debut, Feast of Love, and Cloakroom welcomed their slowcore-influenced debut LP, ∞...

Lemuria in NYC in 2011 (more by Fred Pessaro) Punky indie pop trio Lemuria released their new album, The Distance Is So Big, last week (6/18) via Bridge Nine, and have been doing a good amount of touring this year in support of it...

Michigan's Destroy This Place are comprised of ex-members of Thunderbirds Are Now!, New Grenada, and Friendly Foes. The quartet welcomed their new self-titled album earlier this month via Bellyache Records, and it's a really nice mix of power pop and harder-edged fuzz rock...