Gabe’s Iowa City was packed with music enthusiasts, and Stop/Time festival goers, on Saturday night. The room was dimly lit, where the only sound you could hear was the band on stage. The floor was ...

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Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. “I recorded this album basically whenever I had time, which was not that much, compared to the average Joe,” Slater explains over ...

Snail Mail released her first album in 5 years, Ricochet, last month, and she’s on tour supporting it now. She stopped in NYC on Wednesday night for a show at Brooklyn Paramount with Sharp Pins and @, ...

Next month, Lifeguard's Kai Slater releases his new Sharp Pins record Balloon Balloon Balloon. So far the Chicago indie wunderkind has previewed it with the singles “(I Wanna) Be Your Girl” and “I Don ...

Kai Slater is the lead singer and guitarist for Lifeguard, the noisy young Chicago art-punk band signed to Matador, and the publisher of Hallogallo, a zine that grew out of the city's vibrant teenage ...

Ground Control Touring has once again organized its annual abortion access benefit concerts throughout the United States to raise money for Noise for Now, tapping Sharp Pins, Been Stellar, Lip Critic, ...

Kai Slater is one busy dude. Between playing in numerous bands and releasing music under various monikers (Sharp Pins, his oh-so-fantastic post-punk band Lifeguard, Dwaal Troupe, Sublime Jupiter Snake ...

Kai Slater, of the Chicago rock trio Lifeguard, has announced a new album from his bedroom pop project Sharp Pins: Balloon Balloon Balloon is out November 21 (via K/Perennial). Below, watch director ...