If there's any room in your budget this holiday, consider picking up this killer compilation of underground NYC bands to support one of the City's last independent venues -
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On “Night Or Day,” Franz Ferdinand returns to the high contrast drama of their earliest releases, dominated by big, bawdy piano lines and a raucous energy. Check it out - Franz Ferdinand live it up on big, bawdy "Night Or Day"
Some Days Are Darker return with 'TV-MA,' a tightly focused conceptual narrative that intimately chronicles the rise and fall of romance with the unmitigated grandeur and tragic splendor of cosmic creation itself. Check it out - Some Days Are Darker eulogize gothic romance on incendiary 'TV-MA'
Kills Birds stirs from hibernation to unleash "Behind," a surging torrent of sound and fury that reasserts the band’s influential position at the forefront of LA’s heavy alternative pack. Check it out - Kills Birds uncompromising fury defines tempestuous single "Behind"
Niis have unleashed their latest single, “Lovesick,” a fast and furious metallic thrasher boiling over with an unrelenting onslaught of pounding rhythms, jagged guitar, and take-no-prisoners attitude. Check it out - Niis offers no quarter on metallic thrasher "Lovesick"