"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
Even the title is cool: “Warp Riders,” the third record from Austin metal stalwarts The Sword, is due Aug. 24 on Kemado Records. As you would expect from a band given to conceptual suites built around the sludgy sound of old-school metal with lyrics drawn from Norse mythology and sci-fi writers like Arthur C. Clarke, [...]
While working on her third solo release last year, Baltimore singer and songwriter Jana Hunter diverted the songs she had written into a new band, Lower Dens, which is ready with a debut album and a sprawling fall tour. Hunter had worked with an array of lo-fi folk-ish artists, from Castanets to Devendra Banhart, while [...]
Good news, kids: Superchunk is reissuing its second and third records next month on vinyl (along with CD and digital download). The influential Chapel Hill band, founded by Mac McCaughan and Laura Ballance in 1989, more or less in conjunction with Merge Records, released “No Pocky for Kitty” in 1991 and “On the Mouth” in [...]
Sometimes those people you see busking cover songs on street corners have original tunes, too. In fact, that’s how Nice Purse got its start: singer and songwriter France Camp got bored of playing covers and started writing his own songs. Childhood friend Ian Davis liked what he heard when Camp e-mailed him a few songs, [...]
When last we checked in with Moneybrother, the solo project of Swedish singer and songwriter Anders Wendin, he was giving away an upbeat counterpart to Albert King’s hard-luck blues standard “Born Under a Bad Sign.” It was a generous gesture. But the former Monster singer has even more to give: This time, he’s offering a [...]
New Jersey punk trio Screaming Females keeps busy enough that it’s anyone’s guess where singer Marissa Paternoster found time to make an album as Noun, her slightly less volatile solo project. Yet between festivals and tours (including a recent run of dates opening for Ted Leo & the Pharmacists), somehow she managed: Noun’s debut, “Holy [...]
Past Wolf Parade efforts seemed to see-saw between Dan Boeckner’s terse rockers and Spencer Krug’s more experimental songs, which generally made for interesting, if sometimes uneven listening. They’ve struck a balance on their latest, “Expo 86″ (Sub Pop). The band’s third LP is a collection of 11 new songs that are at once expansive and [...]
Nothing’s new under the sun, trends are cyclical, blah blah blah. All the same, if you came of musical age in the ’90s, it’s a little weird to hear young bands in 2010 citing those years as an influence. English group Pull In Emergency is one such band, and they really make it work on [...]
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