Late Show Miles Benjamin Anthony Robinson - 11:30

These United States - 10:30

Early Show M-Lab (Record Release!) - 9:00

The Canon Logic - 8:00

Miles Benjamin Anthony Robinson has many gifts, and in truth, he is one lucky bastard. With the support of Brooklyn’s finest including Chris Taylor and Christopher Bear of Grizzly Bear, and his ultra champion, Kyp Malone of TV on the Radio, MBAR has finally made his mark with a debut album of soul-scarifying, raggedly glorious songs. New York has been sadly lacking a proper troubadour looking at the stars while mired in the gutter – but in Miles, we have our man. “His songs are given flesh and blood in a way that most rock music now doesn’t allow time for. Very little of his content is upbeat. There’s no whitewashing of his perspective on the human experience. Listening to it is edifying. MBAR is my favourite songwriter right now” Kyp Malone, TV on the Radio Pitchfork Media “The album's first single, "Buriedfed", lives up to those impressive connections, pouring a woodsy, deceptively upbeat folk song through the damp, woozy atmospherics of Horn of Plenty. The proper setting could be a rowdy bar as easily as that record's quiet bedroom.” Time Out New York “Local singer-songwriter Miles Benjamin Anthony Robinson, whose sidemen have included members of Grizzly Bear and TV on the Radio, plays garagey pop with winning psych-era melodies.”

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These United States are the songs of Jesse Elliott, flipped, forged, phased, and fermented; stolen, re-taken, elongated and elevated, beaten and bruised, occasionally imbued, by an ever-battling band of music-mad robber-barons, enthused aesthetic thieves of the long and winding subway tunnels and underground railroads of our cacophonous nation. In the opening chapter of our epic tale, an uncomfortable duo locks eyes in ninth grade English class. Their mutual admiration is frowned upon by the clan of each, springing forth as they do, one from a bohemian bevy of experience-gobbling yes-sayers – the other, from a covert cavern carved deep within the confines of his own mind, a recluse of reckless proportions. Binding them only, each one lonely, is the Written Word, which they will soon render Hummed, eventually Heard. Flash forward seasons: the two have not talked since parting on unspoken terms, drifting off into the universe in disparate directions, one towards painting, the other politics, one then towards fossils, the other then film. They reunite in the blossoming bosom of a tiny town, somewhere in the east of Iowa. Memories stirred, a collective co-habitated, garages refashioned, and a Project born. Sparked, summoned, stoked, eventually though squandered and severed. Again. Off, again.

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In an era when music has been bastardized into so many micro-genres that nearly every new band traces back to an obvious musical niche, precursor, or dominating influence, it's refreshing to say that I've never heard anything quite like M-Lab before. In fusing together elements of progressive rock, piano-based pop and theatricality, this unique quintet has created a sound all its own." - Jason Warburg, The Daily Vault

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Think modern, indie-inspired sounds, mixed with 60's pop and Beach Boys-ish harmonies. Throw in an energized live performance and you have The Canon Logic. Recently featured on the Music Inspires Health Tour, Current TV, and Fearless TV. "TCL weave multi-layered vocal harmonies, guitar hooks and punchy piano into sugar-coated bits of infectious candy that leave you aching for more. The band's new EP, White Balloon, contains what could be some of this summer's catchiest songs..." -The Deli Magazine