"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
“Fairytale of New York” by the Pogues is one of Listen, Dammit’s favorite holiday songs. It so perfectly captures the warmth of the season, the chill in the air and the sort of wistful ache that goes with counting your blessings and finding that, in spite of it all, they are many.
Although it’s been described [...]
With so much music to sift through, it’s easy to overlook deserving bands. For example: Kittens Ablaze, the first in Listen, Dammit’s, catalog of Bands You May Have Missed This Year.
The Brooklyn sextet plays robust, speedy indie-rock with the usual format — guitar, bass, drums — augmented by violin and cello for a lively and [...]
Obviously there’s more to Iceland’s music scene than Bjork and Sigur Ros. Just how much more seems like something we’re going to learn in great detail in 2010.
First, there is the absolutely gorgeous new album from Seabear, due in early February. Then there’s Lay Low, the musical alter-ego of singer Lovisa Elisabet Sigrunardottir, whom Paste [...]
It doesn’t look as though there will be a shortage of sleek electropop in 2010. Not only does Hot Chip have a (very good) new album on the way, Brooklyn’s Via Audio releases its sophomore album Feb. 23.
Formed in 2003 at Berklee College of Music in Boston, Via Audio put out a self-released EP that [...]
After punk, the smart rockers graduate to alt-country. It’s a career path that’s worked wonders for Holly Golightly, former lead singer of ’90s faves Thee Headcoatees, an all-girl garage group associated with eccentric British punk-rock mastermind Billy Childish’s “Medway scene.”
These days, Holly rocks vintage dresses, strums a hollowbody and lives in a Georgia farmhouse with [...]
Naming your band after an ex-lover is a ballsy thing to do, so give credit to Rob Pierangeli.
The Washington D.C. singer and guitarist records as Casper Bangs, the former paramour who inspired many of the songs on a self-titled EP, a 7-inch called “Whitespace” and a forthcoming full-length album, “I Woke Up.” Pierangeli describes the [...]
It’s still not exactly clear what happened between the Drive-By Truckers and New West Records, the band’s label home since a falling out with Lost Highway in 2002. Whatever it was, the Truckers didn’t hide their displeasure, stenciling “FNW” — “Fuck New West” — on their instruments for some shows in 2008.
All that’s over now: [...]
The sound of the well-traveled band Shellshag is perhaps best summed up by the term “hooky-primitive.”
The Brooklyn (by way of a bunch of other places) duo of Johnny “Shell” and Jen “Shag” makes music that is at once brusque, lo-fi and really, really catchy. Their forthcoming album, “Rumors in Disguise,” is packed with fuzz-tone guitars [...]
There’s something charming about indie-rock Christmas songs and so, in the spirit of the season, Listen, Dammit, will post as many great ones as we can find.
First up: “Wishing You a Happy Christmas,” by the Hush Now. It’s a low-key song with jangling guitars and dreamy vocals, complete with fa-la-las. The Boston band released a [...]
Call them art-rock, post-punk, dance-punk — whatever the label, the bottom line is that Liars has made compelling, often fascinating music on four studio albums. With a fifth, “Sisterworld,” due in March, the band is giving away the new song “Scissor.”
The band, now based in Berlin, wrote the songs on “Sisterworld” in Los Angeles with [...]
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