"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
Veteran power-pop band Teenage Fanclub returns in June with its first album in five years. The Scottish group releases “Shadows” June 8 on Merge, marking Teenage Fanclub’s first new album since 2005′s “Man-Made,” which reached No. 34 on the UK charts. A label press release says the 12-song collection is “overflowing with the kind of [...]
Montreal band Plants and Animals sometimes describes itself as “post-classic rock.” We’re not really sure what that means. All we know is that we were only half paying attention to the start of their set at the Brooklyn Vegan/M for Montreal day party Saturday when things suddenly got really catchy, and we were swept away [...]
New York band Freelance Whales only formed a year and a half ago and already there’s a backlash, with Pitchfork deriding the group as “a cutesy affectation without actual purpose.” That’s pretty harsh, so Listen, Dammit, decided to see for itself at the Frenchkiss Records showcase Friday at SXSW. Our conclusion: Lighten up, Pitchfork. Sure, [...]
If there were a way to measure the ratio of musical influence to the number of albums sold by an artist, Pixies would be up there with the Velvet Underground, Big Star and Television. Like those groups and many others, much of the energy of the Pixies came from the tension between its two principal [...]
Well that was anticlimactic. Returning to a U.S. stage for the first time since calling it quits in 2002, Hole — or a version thereof — performed to a packed house at Stubbs Friday afternoon at SXSW as part of Spin magazine’s day party. Supported by an unconvincing backing band, singer Courtney Love — the [...]
Poor Justin. The scrawny kid caught the eye of Sharon Jones midway through her daytime set at Mohawk Thursday afternoon, and she pulled him up on stage during “Be Easy” as an object lesson in purposeful rhythm. “Don’t worry: I’m gonna break him in,” Jones cracked to a capacity crowd Who better? Backed by her [...]
Wednesday was a big deal for Seattle band Visqueen: Just two year ago, leader Rachel Flotard thought she might be finished with music. Instead, she and her band recorded last year’s stunning power-pop album “Message to Garcia,” which led to a high-profile performance opening NPR’s talent-packed showcase Wednesday night at Stubbs’ amphitheater. With Neko Case [...]
All the buzz around Lissie makes sense once you hear her perform. The Rock Island, Ill., native, last name of Maurus, sings with a sort of rustic soul on spare songs that sometimes border on spellbinding. Her set Wednesday afternoon at the Galaxy Room as part of a Paste magazine day party had even the [...]
Just as breakfast is the most important meal of the day, the first set you catch at South by Southwest can set the tone for everything that follows. It was a great start, then, for the crowd that kicked off this year’s festival with Givers. Playing at the Galaxy Room Backyard as part of a [...]
The Drive-By Truckers like to work ahead: the Southern rockers have usually finished making the album after the current album by the time the current album comes out. For example: The band this week released its latest, “The Big To-Do” (ATO), and already has the next record in the can ready for release later this [...]
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