"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
Nice pedigree: In addition to singer, guitarist and Scotsman Erland Cooper, the band Erland & the Carnival includes former Verve and Blur guitarist Simon Tong and Fireman drummer David Nock.
Together with Andy Bruce on keys and David Wheeler on keys, the folk-rock fivesome has released a self-titled debut in the UK and is headed stateside [...]
Listening to Soars is a little like living in an apartment between a fascinating conversationalist and a great band, and trying to pay attention to all the compelling sounds that bleed through their walls into your place.
On the one side (in our little scenario), you hear dark, searing, atmospheric music that swirls around relentless beats, [...]
Although she had the basic idea in place last year on her debut EP, “Apply,” Glasser — known to family and friends as Cameron Miserow — has gone a step further on her first full-length album.
Quite a large step further, in fact.
“Apply” introduced Miserow’s clattering, synth-buzzy musical vision on three songs. “Ring” (True Panther) refines [...]
Last spring, we told you about Washington D.C. trio True Womanhood, which had recently released its debut EP, “Basement Membranes.”
Now the group is readying a full-length, “Ghost Modern,” recorded and mixed in Baltimore by Jawbox singer J. Robbins.
It’s a step forward, judging by free song “Dream Cargoes.” The tune is sleek and dark, with relentless [...]
Before she moved to Los Angeles to join the Rentals in 2005, Sara Radle had spent her entire musical career in Texas.
Starting when she was 17, Radle fronted the San Antonio punk-pop band Lucy Loves Schroeder and put out a handful of solo records. She was working on songs for a fourth solo album in [...]
Never mind the euphemisms, Sonny & the Sunsets get right to the point on “Lovin’ on an Older Gal,” the last song from their recently released debut LP, “Tomorrow is Alright”.
It’s a cheeky song with guitars meandering around a shambling rhythm as Sonny Smith sings lines like, “All the kids on the scene/ Say you’re [...]
Some music seems to fit certain seasons, and Jenny Gillespie’s music strikes us as the perfect sountrack as the heat of summer fades into autumn’s chill,.
The Chicago singer and songwriter blends wistful vocal harmonies with electronic elements, swirling synthesizers and the odd burst of guitar on “In the Garden,” a stirring song from her new [...]
Everybody and their brother is making music these days, and we mean that literally: last week, we told you about the So So Glos, a Brooklyn band of brothers, a step-brother and a friend. Now we’re listening to Abby Gogo, an Atlanta group that includes twin brothers Bon and Jon Alinson, with an album out [...]
It takes a deceptive amount of skill to play music with the ramshackle tightness of Pavement.
As you’d expect, the band was sloppy Tuesday night at Rumsey Field in New York’s Central Park, the first of four SummerStage shows. But Pavement was sloppy with purpose — the band carefully cultivated that shambolic aesthetic during its initial [...]
There’s something to be said for going last. For years, Frankie Rose bided her time, letting the Vivian Girls, Dum Dum Girls and Best Coast drop their debut albums and establish punked-up neo-girl-group pop as a bona fide indie movement. Rose played drums for the former two groups, and now that she’s on guitar and [...]
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