"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 four years away, Dutch indie-rockers Bettie Serveert return March 23 with “Pharmacy of Love” on Second Motion.
It’s the trio’s ninth album overall, and first since “Bare Stripped Naked” in 2006. The band’s publicity material describes a “back-to-basics” approach here, intended to capture the raucous energy of a Bettie Serveert live performance. They seem to [...]
His former band Low Skies was once described as “Midwestern Zoloft rock,” and singer, songwriter and guitarist Christopher C. Salveter doesn’t stray too far from the downbeat aesthetic in his new group, Judson Claiborne.
The band self-released its first album, “Before Midnight Scholar,” in 2008 before signing to La Société Expéditionnaire for “Time and Temperature,” which [...]
Confession: Listen, Dammit, has never really understood the hipster obsession with remixes. It’s cool when Kanye does it and you get a sweet verse from Jay-Z, but remixed indie-rock songs have always seemed like overkill — “Last Night” by the Strokes is pretty good on its own, you know?
Now we’re starting to get it, thanks [...]
Nobody packs a wallop quite like the Legendary Shack Shakers.
First, they’re fronted by J.D. Wilkes, a harmonica-playing, raspy voiced devil who’s been known to respond to “Colonel.” Second, their no-holds-barred live shows since forming in 1998 have earned the band the “legendary” part of its name.
It’s going on three years since their last album, 2007’s [...]
Sweden’s Moneybrother has won hearts and Grammys overseas, now the solo project of former Monster singer Anders Wendin is gearing up for his full-length U.S. debut with “Real Control.”
Due in April on CD and vinyl, “Real Control” is a catchy throwback to the sound of ’60s and ’70s soul, with a healthy dose of punk [...]
If Public Enemy was hip-hop’s answer to punk rock — and last week we argued that it was — then Fugazi was punk rock’s answer to Public Enemy. If the dynamic between Guy Piccioto and Ian MacKaye wasn’t quite the same as that of Chuck D and Flavor Flav, the energy they brought to every [...]
On its 2007 debut, “All Hour Cymbals,” the Brooklyn trio Yeasayer created an alternate-universe “Smile,” the one Brian Wilson would have made had he grown up amid the sands of the Arabian Peninsula, not Southern California. The album had a wayfaring, nomadic feel, its Middle Eastern melodies and tribal percussion hinting at what indie rock [...]
Austin, Texas, noise-rockers … And You Will Know Us by the Trail of Dead have never been known for subtlety, so it may take a minute to wrap your head around the sound of Borrowed Eyes and the Blood Red Road, the new band from former Trail of Dead member Danny Wood.
It’s more akin to [...]
Love gone wrong is a pretty regular song topic, but not this wrong: After a relationship gone sour, Pennsylvania singer and songwriter Timothy Showalter returned home one day to find only the charred ruins of what had been his house.
Showalter, who teaches at a Hebrew dayschool and, his publicity material says, even drives the school [...]
Finally, procrastination pays off!
Say that for whatever reason, you’ve been delaying the purchase of the Magnetic Fields 1999 opus “69 Love Songs.” For the past 10 years. Shame on you, obviously. Or maybe you’re the smart one, given that Merge Records today announced the April 20 release of all 69 songs, fully remastered, on vinyl.
What [...]
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