"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
If there’s one particular sound associated with Washington D.C., besides go-go, it still has to be the piledriving aggression of hardcore punk — Washington is, after all, where it all started for Minor Threat, Fugazi and Dischord Records leader Ian MacKaye, and for D.C. native Henry Rollins.
Bellflur sounds nothing like them. Although the indie-rock quartet [...]
Perhaps by instinct, children of ’80s suburbia will be drawn to the music of Neon Indian.
Armed with vintage synths and arcane samples, group mastermind Alan Palomo writes songs reminiscent of, among other things, Wham hits, Sega soundtracks and Cameo-era funk jams. Listening to Neon Indian’s debut, “Psychic Chasms” (Lefse), is like sleeping over your at [...]
Johnny Whitney and Cody Votolato made an unholy racket as members of the Seattle post-hardcore band Blood Brothers, a tradition they proudly continue in their new project, Jaguar Love.
The duo, having since relocated to Portland, Ore., released its first full-length album, “Take Me to the Sea,” in August 2008.
With a new, as-yet untitled album due [...]
Building on the buzz of last year’s “Made in the Dark,” British electro-pop band Hot Chip returns Feb. 9 with “One Life Stand” on Astralwerks.
A record-company press release describes the new album, the band’s fourth, as “a full-blooded leap into the unknown, an album that is awash with Hot Chip’s trademark creative bravery and a [...]
When Johnny Marr joined Modest Mouse a few years back, fans of both rightfully scratched their heads.
Whereas the Washington indie band had a reputation for screwing with pop conventions, letting the inherent weirdness of main songwriter Isaac Brock mark strange even the relatively accessible likes of 2004’s “Good News for People Who Like Bad News,” [...]
It’s not every day that you walk into Brooklyn Academy of Music’s gorgeous Howard Gilman Opera House expecting to hear the chants and cheers of a ball game. But that’s precisely what happened. Twenty minutes before the start of ”The Long Count,” a multimedia collaboration by musicians Bryce Dessner and Aaron Dessner (of The National) and [...]
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