"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
Taking literally the old saying about absence making the heart grow fonder, former members of ’90s indie-pop band the Autocollants have put aside the differences that ended the band in 1997 to embark on a new project — from a distance. Now calling themselves Tears Run Rings, Laura Watling, Matthew Bice, Ed Mazzucco and Dwayne [...]
We sometimes get confused by the profusion of bands with animals in their names: all those bears, deer, wolves, tigers and pandas can make the head spin. Hot Panda, though, is clearly a band worth remembering, judging by the free song from its forthcoming sophomore album. The Canadian foursome recorded “How Come I’m Dead?” in [...]
We’re told that No Age’s forthcoming third album, “Everything in Between,” represents “bold step in their creative evolution,” which is really saying something, given how bold the Los Angeles art-punk duo sounded on their coruscating debut, “Weirdo Rippers,” and the equally awesome follow-up, “Nouns.” What makes this new record so great? The usual things that [...]
A songwriter as prolific as the Mountain Goats’ John Darnielle is bound to pen a few tunes that don’t fit the rest of his work. For Darnielle, those songs — the ones “that had a) more than three chords or b) a bridge,” in the words of Merge Records — became fodder for the Extra [...]
We admit it, we have a fondness for stoner rock, and the weirder, the better. Tweak Bird fits the bill. Comprising brothers Ashton and Caleb Bird on drums and guitar, respectively, the southern Illinois duo has converted the mammoth sprawl of prog-metal into short bursts of lean, leathery rock. Produced by Dale Crover of the [...]
Sommelier by training, lovelorn by happenstance, musician by avocation: It’s Sharon Van Etten, and she has a new album on the way. The Jersey-born, Brooklyn-residing singer and songwriter released her debut, “Because I Was in Love,” in 2009. It was a fairly minimal album, particularly in contrast to the darkly lush free song from “Epic,” [...]
Rock ‘n’ roll and the suburbs go way back. In 1958, when Eddie Cochran caught the “Summertime Blues,” it was because his parents wouldn’t let him take the car and go for a drive — about the only thing you can do when you’re 16 and have no money. The following decade, the hippies took [...]
After releasing a series of 7-inch singles over the past year, Best Coast has made a surprise bid for sweetest summer album of 2010 with “Crazy For You” (Mexican Summer), the Los Angeles duo’s full-length debut. Not only has the album already cracked the top 40 on the Billboard 200 albums chart, debuting at No. [...]
Listen, Dammit, has a fondness for band names that incorporate other artists’ names: Ringo Deathstarr, for example, or (and we know this one’s not real) Kathleen Turner Overdrive. So it’s a given that we like Dale Earnhardt Jr. Jr., too. The Detroit duo, whose members count themselves as fans of their NASCAR racing namesake, makes [...]
Carrie Brownstein may hold out hope for a Sleater-Kinney reunion, but singer and guitarist Corin Tucker seems plenty busy these days fronting her own new eponymous group. Four years after announcing a Sleater-Kinney “hiatus,” the Corin Tucker Band is slated to release its debut, “1,000 Years,” Oct. 5 on Kill Rock Stars. As you might [...]
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