"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
Many activities are suitable accompaniment for the music of LCD Soundsystem. Driving is not one of them. We tried. But James Murphy’s dance-punk jams are too mesmerizing for so passive an activity, and the last thing you want is to zone out on the highway while you’re doing 75. Next thing you know, you’re embedded [...]
It’s what is tucked into the corners, the unexpected musical passage or subtly dazzling turn of phrase, that elevates The National’s songs into something more than just music and words. If you’re so inclined, the New York band becomes a way to make sense of the tumult of life in an age when it’s possible [...]
It’s an odd sort of homage, but it works: New York singer and songwriter Richard McGraw has reworked Leonard Cohen’s shattering “Chelsea Hotel #2″ into “Balmville Motel,” named for a fleabag motel in McGraw’s hometown of Newburgh, N.Y. He keeps Cohen’s tune, but rewrites the lyrics — about an affair with Janis Joplin in the [...]
“Miscarriage of justice” might be overstating things slightly, but it’s a shame that Crooked Fingers has never broken through to significant mainstream success. In a perfect world, singer, songwriter and front man Eric Bachmann would headline packed theaters and be the subject of fawning profiles in The New York Times. He’s doing neither, and it’s [...]
It didn’t take the first time through, but “Who Wouldn’t” — the first song on the latest release from Los Angeles band Luna is Honey — latched on tight the second time through. Maybe it’s the busy beat or the low, buzzing guitar sound that zooms along over it, or maybe it’s Joshua Crampton’s vocals, [...]
That Joe Pernice has a way with words. And melodies. And writing books. Let’s face it, he’s entirely too good at too many things. After making his full-length book debut last year with the novel “It Feels So Good When I Stop,” Pernice reconvened the Pernice Brothers for a new album, “Goodbye, Killer,” due June [...]
Publicity material for Thieves Like Us says the trio makes “sentimental electronic music,” which is probably not the first adjective that comes to mind in the context of the genre. It’s an apt description, though, of the multi-national band’s sound on “Forget Me Not,” the first song the group has made available from its forthcoming [...]
Rick Moody can (and does) flap his gums all goddamn night about the New Pornographers and their fifth album, “Together” (Matador), but his rambling discourse on the state of the “popular song” reveals more about him than it does the band. Let’s try to rectify that. First, “Together” is the next step on the band’s [...]
Eventually, of course, garage pop was going to collide with synthesizers, and it’s happened via the Frontier Brothers and their song “You Should Start a Band.” It’s the latest release from the Austin, Texas, group, which put out EPs in 2006 and 2007 and a full-length, “Space Punk Starlet,” in 2008. The band is working [...]
It seems ridiculous to think of Wolf Parade as underrated, given how much attention the Montreal band gets. But they’re just so good. And they’re only getting better, if the first two songs from their new album, “EXPO 86,” are any indication. The first, “What Did My Lover Say,” finds starchy guitars cutting quickly around [...]
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