"The Winter of Mixed Drinks"
Frightened Rabbit
"The Suburbs"
Arcade Fire
"Soundtrack To The End"
Communist Daughter
"Crazy For You"
Best Coast
"Treats"
Sleigh Bells
"Silver Soul"
Beach House
"Little Secrets"
Passion Pit
"Unhinged"
Eels
"Black Smoke"
Tindersticks
Brought together by a mutual appreciation for the work of Jack Kerouac, Jay Farrar and Benjamin Gibbard discovered a musical affinity as well on “One Fast Move or I’m Gone,” a soundtrack they recorded for a Kerouac documentary of the same name. (Farrar discusses the project here.)
Their rapport is no fluke, as the pair demonstrated [...]
Sometimes indie-rock’s emphasis on buzz overlooks the fact that buzz wears off, and then what?
If there’s a solid foundation beneath the hype, it’s no problem: you get a great band with the potential for a productive career, barring break-ups, drug habits, celebrity girlfriends or any of the other things that short-circuit promising careers. If the [...]
There are two options: Either Matthew Ryan lives a more turbulent life than most people, or he’s just that much better at shaping the tumult of everyday existence into songs compelling enough to keep you transfixed and leave you a little heartbroken.
Although he’s been making records since the mid-’90s, Ryan’s breakthrough of sorts came on [...]
There’s very little that is warlike about Warpaint.
The Los Angeles trio makes hypnotic music, intertwining their voices over guitars that are by turns distant and slow, and terse and knotty. It’s trippy and pyschedelic, but without the grating affectation that can color that sound.
After self-releasing their debut EP, “Exquisite Corpse,” produced by John Frusciante, earlier [...]
I wonder if I can adequately describe how excited I was to see a bass clarinet on stage when I walked into the Iron Horse Music Hall in Northampton, Mass., Tuesday night for Califone’s film/album project “All My Friends are Funeral Singers.” My thought process went something like this: “Oh WOW — this is going [...]
Summer’s gone, it’s true, but Real Estate can help keep the memories close.
The New Jersey band plays jangling, hazy pop songs on a handful of limited-pressing 7-inch records released this year.
Even better, they’re bringing their pop to the people on a fall tour that rambles from Storrs, Conn., Oct. 30 (with the Vivian Girls) all [...]
Plenty of first-generation UK punks tried their hands at reggae, but none did it quite like the Slits.
Led by the inimitable Ari Up, the yelping teenage stepdaughter of Johnny Rotten, the original incarnation of the mostly female group released just two albums, one of which, its 1978 debut, “Cut,” stands as one of the era’s [...]
Everybody has a side project.
In this case, “everybody” is Todd Goldstein, guitarist for the Brooklyn indie-pop band Harlem Shakes. His side project is ARMS, a musical persona that started, as so many do, as a lo-fi outlet in his bedroom in 2004. Since then, ARMS has become a buzzed-about band in its own right, thanks [...]
Jay Farrar and Benjamin Gibbard had never met before each was asked to contribute to the soundtrack for “One Fast Move or I’m Gone: Kerouac’s Big Sur,” a new documentary exploring the Beat author’s last major novel.
The Son Volt singer and Death Cab for Cutie front man got along so well that what they thought [...]
Maybe it was inevitable that Be Your Own Pet break up. The Nashville garage-rockers were a volatile group from the start, thanks to the members’ young ages and the full-bore, high-impact music they played with ferocious abandon. It made for terrific, often unforgettable live performances, but how long can that sort of thing endure?
About four [...]
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