"The Golden Archipelago"
Shearwater
"The Courage of Others"
Midlake
"We Built a Fire"
Seabear
"The Desert of Shallow Effects"
Miles Kurosky
"2"
Retribution Gospel Choir
"Silver Soul"
Beach House
"Little Secrets"
Passion Pit
"Unhinged"
Eels
"Black Smoke"
Tindersticks
After releasing “Living With the Living” in 2007, Ted Leo & the Pharmacists got off to a fast start on the follow-up. It also proved to be a false start.
Recording sessions went nowhere, prompting the band to take a year-long break from the studio — just in time to spend the summer opening for Pearl [...]
The first album by Retribution Gospel Choir came together in a hurry in 2008, but Alan Sparhawk’s Low side project took its time honing songs for the follow-up.
“The first record was pretty early in the band and we were still trying to figure out what was going on,” he tells Listen, Dammit. “This time we [...]
Perhaps by instinct, children of ’80s suburbia will be drawn to the music of Neon Indian.
Armed with vintage synths and arcane samples, group mastermind Alan Palomo writes songs reminiscent of, among other things, Wham hits, Sega soundtracks and Cameo-era funk jams. Listening to Neon Indian’s debut, “Psychic Chasms” (Lefse), is like sleeping over your at [...]
Jay Farrar and Benjamin Gibbard had never met before each was asked to contribute to the soundtrack for “One Fast Move or I’m Gone: Kerouac’s Big Sur,” a new documentary exploring the Beat author’s last major novel.
The Son Volt singer and Death Cab for Cutie front man got along so well that what they thought [...]
Alison Sudol laughs with delight when it’s suggested that “Bomb in a Birdcage” (Virgin), the new album by her band A Fine Frenzy, is more muscular than its predecessor.
“I just imagine a really big dude in a tank top with big arms,” she says by phone from home in Los Angeles.
Sort of, yeah. A Fine [...]
Not all indie rock is rock. There is, for example, a subset of indie-minded musicians dabbling in Eastern European folk music, though “dabbling” doesn’t quite do justice to the music of A Hawk and a Hacksaw.
What started as a solo project by former Neutral Milk Hotel drummer Jeremy Barnes yielded a self-titled 2002 album exploring [...]
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