"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
Brotherly love, violent quarrels and rock ‘n’ roll: it’s the So So Glos, a Brooklyn quartet comprising brothers Alex and Ryan Levine, their step-brother from the age of 4, Zach Staggers, and non-blood relation but brother in spirit Matt Elkin. After various playing together in various incarnations since they were kids, the Levines and Staggers [...]
If you remember Harvey Danger at all, it’s almost certainly for the band’s surprise 1998 hit “Flagpole Sitta.” It was, however, just one entry in a 16-year career that ended in 2009. In a farewell coda, the Seattle band is giving away one last song, “The Show Must Not Go On,” a song that directly [...]
In our age of ironic detachment, an awful lot of indie rock, etc., songs are packed full of arch lyrics about being too cool to care. So James & Evander skip the lyrics altogether on “Turtle Two,” the free song from their new EP, “Sunlight & Circuitry.” The Oakland duo met in college in 2005, [...]
It’s tempting to make a big deal out of “Sex With an X” (Sub Pop), the first new Vaselines album in more than two decades, but doing so would run contrary to the spirit of the band. Based around the songwriting duo of Eugene Kelly and Frances McKee, the Glaswegian group has never been particularly [...]
It’s a little early to be comparing Cameron Mesirow’s music to albums by Van Morrison or Joni Mitchell (or, for that matter, R. Kelly, who also gets name-checked in a press bio), but the woman who performs at Glasser is definitely on to something. Her full-length debut, “Ring,” is the musical embodiment of a complicated [...]
On Grinderman’s 2007 self-titled debut, Nick Cave teamed with three members of the Bad Seeds, his longtime backing band, and bashed out some of the meanest, rawest, sexiest rock ‘n’ roll he’d made since his days fronting the Birthday Party. The sound was Gothic garage, and as Cave ramped up his usual silver-tongued vampire-Elvis preacher-man [...]
Weezer has released three self-titled albums, each signaling a key phase in the band’s career. The first, 1994’s so-called “Blue Album,” introduced the group as a geeky Los Angeles power-pop quartet with a socially awkward former-metalhead lead singer. “The Green Album” followed in 2001, when said front man, Rivers Cuomo, decided to remake Weezer as [...]
The new full-length from garage-country trio Those Darlins won’t be ready until early next year, but the Tennessee three are far too ladylike to leave you waiting that long: The gals Tuesday release a 7-inch containing two new songs, “Night Jogger” b/w “Funstix Party.” The former is terse and dark, with a slinky bass groove [...]
Seeing Lissie sing at SXSW this year, Listen, Dammit, was struck by how well her songs translated to a stripped-down trio (or occasionally solo) configuration. That’s one of the measures of a how good a performer really is, though there’s also plenty to love on the California-via-Illinois singer’s full-length debut. “Catching a Tiger” (Fat Possum) [...]
It’s probably a sign of the times that a new artist riding a wave of buzz less than a year ago already has a protege, but that’s sort of the story with Neon Indian and Jesse Woods. Woods got noticed thanks to a cover of Neon Indian’s song “Mind, Drips,” which led to a stint [...]
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