"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
Garage-rocker Jay Reatard, born Jimmy Jay Lindsey Jr., died early Wednesday morning at home in Memphis. He was 29. Lindsey was found in his home about 3:30 Wednesday morning, reports The Commercial Appeal of Memphis. A volatile presence on and off the stage, Lindsey was also a prolific musician: he began recording his songs as [...]
What sounds like a weird invitation is actually a buzzed-about band: Let’s Wrestle, a trio from London, is also the newest signee to Merge Records. The group formed in 2005 and has released a series of singles (including one with the excellent title “For the Abba Tribute Record”), a pair of EPs and one full-length [...]
Phrases like “features snowboarding legend” do not instill confidence in Listen, Dammit, headquarters, where extreme sports are generally associated with the sorts of shitty skate-punk bands endemic to Warped Tour. On the other hand, Jack Endino has a history of good taste: He produced Nirvana’s “Bleach,” along with albums by the likes of High on [...]
Indie chamber folk meets naturalistic poetry on “The Lost Son,” a new free EP by Team B with lyrics by the late Theodore Roethke, winner of the Pulitzer Prize for poetry in 1954. Team B is a solo project of sorts for Kelly Pratt, a member of Beirut and the Arcade Fire. Pratt started this [...]
It’s hard to believe a band like Flat Duo Jets ever ended up on a major label, but hey, it was the ’90s, when the record biz was still throwing around cash like a pro athlete in a strip club. The North Carolina rockabilly-ish twosome, a major influence on the White Stripes and plenty more, [...]
If it weren’t so catchy, Vampire Weekend’s self-titled 2008 debut might have been cloying. But all those melodic hooks, and the smart use of clattering African-style polyrhythms, helped leaven the conceit behind the idea of “Upper West Side soweto,” which otherwise threatened to become unbearably precious in a smug, preppy hipster way. The band’s second [...]
Record-release shows are usually the start of a new chapter, and the Radar Brothers’ record-release show Jan. 29, 2008, in Los Angeles was no different — except their new start grew out of a wrenching ending when the band essentially broke up at the end of the show. It was an amicable enough parting, except [...]
Breaking up seems to have worked out for the Middle East. The Australian indie-folk/pop/whatever band split in 2008, shortly after self-releasing an album called “The Recordings of the Middle East.” For one reason or another, the break-up didn’t take, and the quintet reconvened eight months later and re-released five songs from the album as an [...]
Young bands still building a name sometimes benefit from associating themselves with an established sound. Worker Bee isn’t having it. The band, formed in 2006 in San Jose, Calif., is keen to avoid such things on its full-length debut, “Tangler,” which the band released last summer. Worker Bee’s publicist describes the record as “what the [...]
The Flaming Lips have occasionally included covers in their lives shows, most notably “War Pigs” by Black Sabbath. But the Oklahoma band has never attempted a tribute quite on the scale of its song-for-song re-creation of Pink Floyd’s “Dark Side of the Moon,” released last month via iTunes. It’s more of a re-imagining than a [...]
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