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Ted Leo sheds stress of deadlines, record label, for new LP ‘The Brutalist Bricks’

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 [...]

Retribution Gospel Choir leader talks lyrical themes, geography and football

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 [...]

Neon Indian's Alan Palomo on nostalgia, buzz and 'Wonderful Christmastime'

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 Ben Gibbard draw from Kerouac’s ‘Big Sur’ for ‘One Fast Move’

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 [...]

A Fine Frenzy singer Alison Sudol talks songwriting, books and growing up

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 [...]

A Hawk and a Hacksaw talks Old-World folk music and sources of inspiration

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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