These United States keep busy: The Washington D.C./Kentucky indie rock band is readying its third full-length release in the past 18 months, which is an impressive pace by any standard. Making this new record all the more interesting, though, is that the songs on “Everything Touches Everything” (out Sept. 1 on United Interests) were one [...]
August 28, 2009 at 4:18 pm | Share |
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One of the most wonderfully abrasive concerts Listen, Dammit, has ever seen came courtesy of Pissed Jeans, a group of Pennsylvania noise-rock reprobates who managed to blow the power in a tiny makeshift venue in New Haven, Conn., not once, but twice. The band’s brief performance consisted largely of thrashing and churning, which closely mirrored [...]
August 21, 2009 at 9:30 am | Share |
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A few years ago at the Pitchfork Music Festival in Chicago, Listen, Dammit, overheard some hipster kid say to his friend, “First and foremost, Jay Reatard is making some of the best music in the world right now.” That kid was absolutely right, as long as you’re into fast and loose punk rock with a [...]
August 19, 2009 at 10:00 am | Share |
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The era of the soulful acoustic hip-hop cover hasn’t ended yet: Chicago singer and songwriter William Fitzsimmons has tackled Kanye West’s “Heartless,” and where Kanye’s version is defiant and angry, Fitzsimmons gives the tune a weary and sorrowful air. Fitzsimmons, who has landed songs on “Grey’s Anatomy” and “General Hospital,” released his latest album, “The [...]
August 7, 2009 at 6:00 pm | Share |
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