NYC Scene Report – MisterWives, Kaz Moon, & Alex Anwandter

This week’s NYC Scene Report features MisterWives going out of their mind, Kaz Moon with “A lot to explain,” and Alex Anwandter cuttin’ a rug at Sugar Hill.

* NYC indie legends MisterWives have released their first single of 2023, and it’s going to make you go “Out Of Your Mind.”

The fast-paced alt-pop-rock song is an introduction to the next era of MisterWives, and as frontwoman Mandy Lee sings “If you think I’ll lay down and die, you’re out of your God damned mind,” it sounds like it’s going to be an era that will kick a lot of ass.

I honestly can’t wait to hear them perform this live, because I can only imagine how insane the crowd is going to be.

Click play on “Out Of Your Mind,” and rock out to this take-no-prisoners anthem.

* Pardon Brooklyn, by way of Dallas, indie artist Kaz Moon, he feels he has “A lot to explain.”

Off his upcoming project, ST*R *NISE, “A lot to explain” was actually the first song Moon recorded after he moved to NYC back in 2021.

“I remember working on it in my new apartment, which at the time was really cursed looking,” he says, “The previous tenant was some kind of alcoholic. It had like two decaying couches facing each other, just a really cursed environment. Then I made ‘A lot to explain.’”

Moon is currently away from that apartment, as he’s in the midst of a tour that will wrap up in Brooklyn on April 25th.

Before he gets home, check out the genre-defying “A lot to explain,” and get to know Kaz Moon.

* It’s time to put on your dancin’ shoes (do people still have those?), as NYC, by way of Chile, artist Alex Anwandter is taking us to the disco with his latest single, “Precipicio.”

Off his upcoming album, El diablo en el cuerpo, which is due out May 26th, Anwandter described “Precipicio” in a statement, saying, “It’s a song about how when a relationship is crumbling it can mirror a chaotic, self-destructing world, and if the world is ending, you might as well dance.”

Hey, who can argue with that?

The Will Colacito-directed video for “Precipicio” was filmed at Brooklyn’s Sugar Hill nightclub, and you can check it out right here.

For more of the best of NYC’s indie music scene, come back next Wednesday, and check out the archives for previous columns.