"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
Stacking layers of off-beat female vocal harmonies surely has some arcane symbolic significance in the music of experimental acts like the Dirty Projectors. Ava Luna, on the other hand, just likes classic girl groups. And electro-punk. The Brooklyn seven-piece band combines them in arresting fashion on “Services,” a new four-song EP set for release Friday [...]
They’re like chocolate: “delicious, dark, semi-sweet electro-pop” is how Summer Dregs describe themselves on their MySpace page, and it’s an apt summary. Singer and songwriter Carl Cadwell heads the Chattanooga, Tenn., band, with help from members of other groups — “collaborating with musicians of greater talent to make better music than any of us could [...]
Florida’s Surfer Blood is one of the most buzzed about acts to emerge so far in 2010, but Holiday Records has an even more potent offering in the wings: A Classic Education. The band, from Bologna, Italy, plays indie-pop with a classic sensibility: bright, bristling guitars, punchy bass, dreamy vocals, all soaked in reverb and [...]
In the best tradition of lo-fi bedroom pop comes Orphan Bird, a one-man band that may or may not involve West Virginia songwriter Jason Ward. It’s a brand new project — the first post on this blog is dated Dec. 31, 2009 — but it sounds like things are happening fast, with four songs already [...]
There are two main dangers to naming your band after a classic album: First, it’s confusing. Second, you risk comparisons to the album in question, and unless your album is also a classic (hint: it’s probably not), you’re screwed. This situation has cropped up twice in the past year, with bands called the Big Pink [...]
In an effort to prepare for the coming wave of ’90s nostalgia while simultaneously making everyone who remembers the ’90s feel old, Listen, Dammit, will be exploring the best music of 20 years ago in chronological order, month by month. We begin at the beginning: January 1990. By the end of the ’80s R.E.M. had [...]
In an earlier time, Spoon would have been a text-book rock ‘n’ roll success story: The band started small and grew slowly, building a fanbase as it released a series of ever-better albums, including a major label try-out with 1998′s “Sneaks.” The major-label thing didn’t work out, and it’s been increasingly obvious with every Spoon [...]
We’re only 15 days into January, true, but Listen, Dammit, is already convinced that Seabear’s forthcoming record will turn out to be one of the year’s best. It’s just incredibly gorgeous. A month or so ago, we posted streaming versions of two of the tracks, “Lion Face Boy” and “Cold Summer.” Now you can have [...]
Things were going well for Man/Miracle until singer and guitarist Danny Swimp broke his back. That put a crimp in the California band’s ambitious performance schedule — in fact, the group, which formed when the musicians were high school students in Los Osos before moving to Santa Cruz, spent several months on hiatus while Swimp [...]
It’s been a while since we’ve heard from Anders Parker, former member of Space Needle and Varnaline, solo artist and half of the duo Gob Iron (with Son Volt’s Jay Farrar). Now we’re finding out why: he’s been holed up in the studio making not one, not two, but four new albums. He released two [...]
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