"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
Now that it’s finally feeling like spring, how about a little music for a lovely spring (Friday) afternoon? Why, that’d be Hey Marseilles, an orchestral pop band from Seattle.
The six-piece group (can you spot the indie-rockers in the photo above?) makes earnest, lilting music, with guitars buoyed up by violin, viola and accordion on the [...]
All the way from Milwaukee comes the Goodnight Loving, a band that has quietly amassed quite a catalog: “The Goodnight Loving Supper Club,” due July 20 on Dirtnap, is the group’s fourth LP. There have also been three 7-inch singles and a 12-inch EP.
And it turns out the band’s not so quiet after all: now [...]
Becky Black and Maya Miller aren’t messing around.
The Vancouver duo, known as the Pack a.d., plays blues-laced garage rock with ferocious abandon, and they do it a lot: Black and Maya played 157 shows in 2009. Naturally, all that rocking out has molded them into a super-tight unit, and it shows on “We Kill Computers,” [...]
After kicking it for a while with Acid Washed and Wolfmother, we’re ready for another foray into the world of the remix. This time, it’s Entrepreneurs’ chopping up and stitching together of “Something I’m Not” by Penguin Prison.
The original features vivid vocals over a moody, atmospheric electro track. The remix, says Entrepreneurs, a DJ from [...]
Jesse Malin likes to talk about “positive mental attitude,” the words behind the “PMA” decals on his trusty black Les Paul. It’s a motto that’s served him well — particularly over the last couple of years.
Following the release of his third album, 2007’s “Glitter in the Gutter,” the New York City singer-songwriter found himself broke, [...]
Glen Pine joined the Slackers in 1997, just after the New York City band released its sophomore effort, “Redlight.” The album marked a major step forward, its mix of ska, reggae, rocksteady, dub, soul, and ’50s rock ‘n’ roll prefacing the string of smart, genre-defying releases that has followed. More than [...]
Listening to Brad Senne’s quiet indie-folk(/pop?) songs, it’s hard to believe he used to be hardcore about hardcore, fronting the Twin Cities-area band Picturesque in the late ’90s and signing to Trustkill Records.
Or maybe it’s not so hard to believe: hardcore seems to require a surplus of youthful rage and energy, and when those things [...]
Beck is one of those artists we go back and forth on: sometimes he strikes us a latter-day pop genius, and sometimes he’s more like an affected hipster in love with his own hype.
We love him, though, on “Fresh Hex,” a new track from “Maniac Meat.” It’s the forthcoming record by Tobacco, who is perhaps [...]
Each wave of ska has had its flagship act. In the ’60s, it was the Skatalites, the group of ace instrumentalists who more or less invented Jamaica’s first indigenous form of pop. In the late ’70s and early ’80s, English septet the Specials ushered in the 2 Tone era, drawing on the [...]
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Low buzz in the courtroom as judge bangs gavel
JUDGE: Order in the court! Prosecution may proceed.
PROSECUTOR: Your honor, ladies and gentlemen of the jury, it is my intent to prove beyond a shadow of a doubt that the defendant, known to the public as Killing Joke is guilty [...]
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