"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
Montana isn’t known for its indie-rock scene, so maybe Wartime Blues is the start of something. The eight-piece band from Missoula formed in 2006 and is said to split the difference between Wolf Parade and the Hold Steady. There’s a lot of ground to cover between those two acts, but to our ears, the group [...]
There are a lot of bands called Lights: Listen, Dammit, reviewed an album last summer by a Brooklyn band called Lights, and there’s a also a Canadian singer who goes by the name Lights. Add to that a Seattle trio called The Lights we’re starting to get confused. Seriously, people, there are other names available. [...]
Confession: We don’t watch “Glee.” Never seen an episode, in fact. But we might if there were someone awesome on the show. Someone, say, like Cristina Bautista. Bautista (that’s her above, at right) plays bass and sings backing vocals in one of our favorite bands, the Seattle power-pop group Visqueen, and she’s auditioning for “Glee” [...]
The sad truth is, the drugs part of the “sex, drugs and rock ‘n’ roll” equation doesn’t usually work out so well. It didn’t for John Solomon, who returns to music after a three-year hiatus that stemmed from addiction problems and jail stints. Solomon, formerly of Friends Like These, moved from Minneapolis to small-town Wisconsin [...]
Not only does Listen, Dammit, fully endorse the activity described in the title of “Gonna Listen to T-Rex (All Night Long),” we like that Burnt Ones set the tune to a glammy T. Rex drum beat, topped it with fuzzed-out guitar and added tons of reverb. It’s the A-side track from the Indianapolis trio’s new [...]
After Mantler released “Landau” in 2004, mastermind Chris A. Cummings figured it would take three years to make the next record. It actually took six, in part because he was in no hurry. “It ended up being really exhausting, getting it out on a deadline, so I decided that when the time came to record [...]
Synth-pop has never been afforded much respect by music critics. Like disco and techno, it has been accused of lacking soul, and its creators of being too lazy to learn and use real instruments. While there are plenty of examples that fit this description, it is not by any means an apt characterization of the [...]
At the risk of sounding earnest in a world full of irony (so uncool), we dare you not to get swept away by the opening bars of “Tea and Thunderstorms” by Olney Clark, an orchestral-pop duo comprising Grant Olney and Barry DeBakey. The song starts with the crash of a resonant cymbal that sets in [...]
Call it the darlings of indie-pop tour: The Pains of Being Pure at Heart hit the road with Surfer Blood this summer on an outing that starts June 3 in Milford, Conn., and the hipster kids are all aflutter. But there are three bands on the bill: Hooray for Earth holds down the opening spot. [...]
Listen, Dammit, has seen the Hold Steady a lot and two of the best Hold Steady concerts we’ve seen have been in Northampton, Mass. The band made its second-ever stop there Tuesday at the Pearl Street Nightclub with a set that included a handful of new songs from forthcoming album “Heaven is Whenever” and an [...]
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