"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
Singer and songwriter Luzelena Mendoza oversees a yin-yang sort of thing in her band, Y La Bamba.
The Portland, Ore., band leader draws inspiration both from her strict Catholic upbringing as the only daughter of Mexican immigrants, and from the harrowing illness that drained her religious faith away. It’s a powerful concoction on “Lupon,” Y La [...]
It’s a milestone: Of Montreal releases its 10th album, “False Priest,” Sept. 14 on Polyvinyl.
The record, co-produced by Of Montreal front man Kevin Barnes and the eminently tasteful Jon Brion (of Aimee Mann, Rufus Wainwright and Kanye West renown), boasts 13 new songs, including two with Janelle Monáe and one with Solange Knowles.
First single “Coquet [...]
If there’s one thing Listen, Dammit, loves (and there is), it’s full-speed rock ‘n’ roll that rattles along with gleeful abandon. That’s the kind of rock ‘n’ roll Rooftop Vigilantes makes.
The Lawrence, Kan., band self-released a four-song EP, “Who Stole My Zoo?” earlier this year, and put out the “Carrot Atlas” LP last year. The [...]
You can bet that Nathan Williams is not going to screw it up this time. After nearly short-circuiting his musical career last year, the singer, guitarist and overall mastermind behind lo-fi garage-rock band Wavves returns with a third album, “King of the Beach.” The Fat Possum release, originally scheduled for Aug. 3, is now available [...]
When last we heard from These United States, the band was just about to release an album voted on, inadvertently, by the American public. The band’s follow-up, “What Lasts,” was somewhat less democratic, but then, a lot has happened since last year.
For one thing, singer and songwriter Jesse Elliott nearly drowned in Lake Michigan, which [...]
Singer Sara Radle has connections, formed from years of performing with bands including the Flaming Lips, Tokyo Police Club and the Rentals, which Radle joined when former Weezer bassist Matt Sharp re-constituted the power-pop band in 2005.
Much as she has loved all those projects, Radle is ready to work for herself again. The Texas-born singer [...]
If you believe the comic strip that comes with the band’s press material, Yellow Fever is actually a pair of cats that studied up on back issues of Popular Mechanics and learned to build “fully functional lifelike human replicants.” We think maybe they’re stretching the truth a little: everyone knows cats can’t read.
Regardless, the Austin, [...]
Radio City Music Hall is a big room, and The National makes music for intimate spaces. Yet the band expanded Wednesday night, figuratively and literally, to fill the 6,000-seat New York City venue with rich musical arrangements on songs that became somehow inclusively insular.
Assisted at first by a pair of horn players, the musicians seemed [...]
On the first few Gaslight Anthem releases—two full-lengths and an EP—New Jersey-born singer, guitarist, and songwriter Brian Fallon put enthusiasm before artistry, scrawling broad-stroke valentines to his rock ‘n’ roll heroes: Tom Petty, Mike Ness, Joe Strummer, Counting Crows, and of course, Bruce Springsteen. The music was earnest, rousing and [...]
When Justin Vernon left DeYarmond Edison to write tear-out-your-guts indie-folk songs as Bon Iver, the rest of the band regrouped to become Megafaun.
They’ve kept busy, releasing two albums and spending plenty of time on the road. Instead of taking a break this year, the trio spent a week in January writing new songs, then immediately [...]
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