"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
After taking the summer off, the Dead Trees have kept a busy fall schedule, touring with Little Joy (in Brazil!) and the Rosewood Thieves. “it was great, and now we’re pals with Caetano,” the Portland, Ore., band says of the Brazil trip in an e-mail. “Tell your friends, tell your mom.” The group keeps the [...]
With all due respect to Rolling Stone’s David Fricke, calling Seabear leader Sindri Már Sigfússon the “Icelandic Beck” isn’t particularly helpful. Not only are such descriptions reductive, they are dismissive, even when they’re meant as compliments. Also, in this case, the comparison doesn’t really fit: Sigfússon has none of the arch slacker sentiment that characterizes [...]
Horchata: it’s not just a delicious Mexican cinnamon rice milk drink anymore. It’s also the the name of the new single from Vampire Weekend. The song comes from the band’s second album, “Contra,” which is due Jan. 12 on XL and has been included on Flavorpill’s list of the 12 most anticipated albums of 2010 [...]
Some indie rockers are just too cool for Christmas, but others have an earnest streak a mile wide. Julian Koster is among the latter. The Music Tapes leader and former Neutral Milk Hotel bassist last year released a whole album of holiday songs, “The Singing Saw at Christmastime,” which is, in fact, a collection of [...]
Is it just us, or is this week dragging on and on and on? Maybe some metal will help speed things up. Hailing from Austin, Texas (also home to the Sword, another sweet metal band), Iron Age is five guys who are serious about scorching riffs, bludgeoning rhythms and face-shredding solos. The group released its [...]
Although it got generally good reviews, the Shout Out Louds’ second album, 2007′s “Our Ill Will,” felt a little labored after the effortless, mopey pop the Swedish band laid down on its lovely 2005 (2003 in Sweden) debut, “Howl Howl Gaff Gaff.” After a year on the road in support of “Our Ill Wills,” the [...]
It’s hard to talk about music and religious experiences without sounding grandiose. We think of religious themes as being epic and religious experiences as being life-changing. But if spirituality is about connecting with some kind of animating principal, about engaging matters of the soul, that can happen on a small scale, too. The Mountain Goats [...]
His first album, “Boy Gone Wrong,” drew generous reviews from the likes of Time Out NY and the Village Voice, now Manhattan singer and songwriter Pete Galub is hard at work on the follow-up. Galub has posted two of the new songs here. You can listen for free, but slipping him a couple bucks for [...]
When last we heard from Robert Schneider, he was inventing a new musical scale for “New Magnetic Wonder,” the vibrant 2007 album by his band the Apples in Stereo. Now he’s back, and he’s in a psychedelic mood. With his brother-in-law, Craig Morgan, Schneider formed Thee American Revolution, a fuzzed-out celebration of vintage lo-fi rock. [...]
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