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Frightened Rabbit
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Arcade Fire
"Soundtrack To The End"
Communist Daughter
"Crazy For You"
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"Little Secrets"
Passion Pit
"Unhinged"
Eels
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Tindersticks
No one would have quibbled if she had taken some time off after her diagnosis of multiple sclerosis earlier this year, but punk singer Exene Cervenka doesn’t seem to have slowed down at all.
She toured with X, then did some solo shows and now she is ready with her first solo album since 1991.
X has [...]
The album isn’t out until November, but Listen, Dammit, is already obsessed with “A Hundred Hearts,” the new song by Philadelphia band the Swimmers.
It’s just so catchy, from the chimey little keyboard intro to the echo vocal in the verse to the chorus that blooms like spring flowers captured with time-lapse photography.
The song comes from [...]
Gogol Bordello has the highest profile in gypsy-punk circles, but Eugene Hutz’s band isn’t the only entrant. There’s also Guignol & Mischief Brew.
It’s a collaboration between the bands Guignol and Mischief Brew. The former is led by Peter Hess of Balkan Beat Box and Franz Nicolay of the Hold Steady, who also keeps busy with [...]
This is one of those cases where the usual attempts at colorful labels just don’t work. Oakland trio Tempo No Tempo has been called “reggaeton punk” and “tribal new wave,” both of which are reductive descriptions that bear little resemblance to the sound of the band’s music.
It’s more precise to say the former foursome — [...]
No less an indie-rock personage than Isaac Brock praises Holopaw’s John Orth as one of the few real singers out there.
“That’s what grabbed me: the singing and lyrics,” Brock, of Modest Mouse, says in a press release about Holopaw’s new album, “Oh, Glory. Oh, Wilderness.,” due Nov. 3 on Bakery Outlet.
Indeed, the first song, “The [...]
The new song from Sarah Assbring, who’s now recording under the name El Perro del Mar, is all about the bassline.
It’s a melodic marvel, at once catchy and pushy as it propels “Change of Heart” through swirls of guitar and piano and Assbring’s melancholy vocals. It’s from her new album, “Love is Not Pop,” due [...]
There’s something unknowably lonesome about Castanets, the band anchored by singer and songwriter Raymond Raposa.
To record most of his 2008 album “City of Refuge,” Raposa holed up in a remote Nevada motel for three weeks. It sounds as if he never left on the follow-up, “Texas Rose, The Thaw & The Beasts” (Asthmatic Kitty). In [...]
Cleveland duo mr. Gnome is a study in contrasts: Ghostly, sweet female vocals paired with terse, gritty guitars and clattering drums. It’s earned the band tags such as “Cat Power fronting Death From Above 1979.”
It also makes for a compelling sound on the first two songs from the group’s second album, “Heave Yer Skeleton,” due [...]
Glasgow’s Pastels and Tokyo’s Tenniscoats reportedly recorded this collaborative album over the course of three years, booking sessions whenever the latter group happened to be in Scotland.
“Two Sunsets” (Domino) is nothing if not a testament to the power of patience. Listening to the disc’s dozen tracks — lazy, hazy twee-pop tunes that kiss the ears [...]
Alison Sudol laughs with delight when it’s suggested that “Bomb in a Birdcage” (Virgin), the new album by her band A Fine Frenzy, is more muscular than its predecessor.
“I just imagine a really big dude in a tank top with big arms,” she says by phone from home in Los Angeles.
Sort of, yeah. A Fine [...]
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