"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
In the early days of electronic music, composers intended the music to be listened to. Edgard Varèse and Karlheinz Stockhausen constructed elaborate collages of sound, intended to be performed in concert halls. John Cage took a more indeterminate approach to his compositions, but they were still considered to be artistic statements. Even Kraftwerk, who were [...]
Yesterday we told you about Versus, a New York band releasing its first album in a decade. That’s no time time at all compared to the Vaselines, who are releasing their first album in two decades. The influential Scottish indie-pop band (Kurt Cobain was a fan) released its only full-length LP, “Dum Dum,” in 1990, [...]
Nihilists are generally a dour lot: all that skepticism about stuff apparently includes humor, unless you’re New York indie band Versus. After a hiatus/breakup/pause, the trio returns with “On the Ones and Threes,” mixing a morbid worldview with wry humor on its first album in a decade. Even the title cuts both ways. “It’s about [...]
Although the members of Cotton Jones relocated last year to Georgia from their native Maryland, songs on the duo’s forthcoming album stem from the environs they left behind. Core members Michael Nau (the founder of folk-pop band Page France) and Whitney McGraw play indie-folk songs steeped in an old-timey sensibility. They’ve been on the road [...]
There are moments on “Becoming a Jackal,” the full-length debut from Villagers, when singer Conor J. O’Brien gives the impression that he’s just broken through the fourth wall to address you personally, like a TV news anchor who pauses from his script to look straight into the camera and call you by name. It’s at [...]
Listen, Dammit, always did like social studies in middle school, though thankfully, those days are long gone. Now Social Studies is a band, hailing from San Francisco, that makes electro-laced pop songs sometimes tagged with the “twee” label. The group formed after singer and keyboardist Natalia Rogovin (who, naturally, grew up on a commune in [...]
Every once in a while, you find one of those sublime moments when all the troubles of the real world seem to recede. That’s the moment Coltrane Motion sings about on “I Forgot There Was a War On.” It’s the free tune from the Chicago electro-pop duo’s second record, “Hello Ambition!” The song sweeps along [...]
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