"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
With a new album due this week New York lo-fi rockers Your 33 Black Angels celebrate by throwing a record-release party Thursday, Dec. 3, at the Mercury Lounge in New York.
The band drew plaudits from the likes of Rolling Stone and The New York Times following the release of its first album, 2007’s “Lonely Street,” [...]
His publicists call Beardo “a voice of today’s simple people, dealing with everyday problems.” One such travail would seem to be the best means of ingesting controlled substances. The southern California MC has the answer: “Snort UR Drugz,” he urges on a song by the same title, which is essentially a slacker-rap cover of M.I.A.’s [...]
And here you thought Saturn was just the second biggest planet in the solar system — you know, the one with all the rings.
Turns out that Saturn is for lovers, according to Montreal garage rockers Red Mass, who express that opinion a few times on the refrain to their song “Saturn.” It’s a clattering rave-up [...]
With 40-odd days left in 2009, it’s probably a little early to start handicapping records for placement on best-of lists in 2010. So let’s just say that the new Beach House album is really, really good.
The record, “Teen Dream,” started taking shape after core duo Victoria Legrand and Alex Scally managed a few weeks of [...]
In an expansive mood midway through a performance Wednesday at the Masonic Temple in Fort Greene, Brooklyn, singer and guitarist Alex Chilton opened his arms wide and stepped to the microphone to address an audience shouting requests.
“Speak your minds, as if it were a Tea Party,” he cracked.
It was far more congenial than all that, [...]
Vocals, and especially lyrics, are often the dicey part of the musical equation for heavy bands. It’s too easy to undermine sweet riffs with dumb lyrics or embarrassing vocals from a singer who thinks he’s Satan. Or Cookie Monster.
Pelican neatly circumvents the problem by avoiding vocals altogether. The Los Angeles-via-Chicago quartet remains determinedly instrumental on [...]
It took just 5 seconds for Listen, Dammit, to fall in love with “Rip My Heart Out,” the approved-for-posting mp3 by Montreal band Devil Eyes.
That first guitar chord just kind of hangs there for a beat or two, as if the song is taking a deep breath for the full-on charge that follows. It’s terse, [...]
Sometimes a name says it all: The New Loud was, it seems, too loud for New York City. The Milwaukee, Wis., trio was only a few songs into its set at Wicked Willy’s during CMJ in October when the cops showed up to shut down the show.
It was just one mishap in what sounds like [...]
Most junior high school bands last just long enough for all the band members’ parents to run out of patience with the rakcet in the basement or garage.
The members of Blackmarket must have really patient parents.
The Arizona band started playing together in junior high and kept it going through tours of the U.S., Europe and [...]
Because Dave Grohl and Josh Homme worked together on “Songs For the Deaf,” the breakthrough album by Queens of the Stone Age, they’re a known quantity. Add Led Zeppelin bassist John Paul Jones to the mix and what do you get?
An album that sounds very much like Dave Grohl and Josh Homme on the self-titled [...]
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