"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
If your heart needs breaking — and if you’re a certain kind of music fan, you know it does — then James Low Western Front is the band to do it. The group’s new album, “Whiskey Farmer,” is a beautifully downbeat collection of songs about a character who’s always done the right things and is [...]
The truth is, kayln rock is such a cheerful, intelligent conversationalist that you can’t help but learn three facts, and more, from the fact that she recently had her wisdom teeth out (“Your teeth make this funny sound when they’re being removed,” she notes) to her pitch-perfect idea to book herself on a tour of [...]
In pursuit of 3 Facts about Argyle Johansen, we learned one fact right away: It’s a them, not a him. True story: the Brooklyn band is the project of one John Wentz, a New Jersey native who writes and sings the songs the world (or, you know, a portion of it) associates with Argyle Johansen. [...]
You’ll never get a straight answer from Enjoy Your Pumas about the band’s name “We change the story every time,” guitarist Josh Benoit admits to Listen, Dammit, after spinning a tale involving a book he supposedly read about a post-apocalyptic world in which a man befriends a puma. Lies! All lies! No matter: the origin [...]
Gang of Four was one of the most socially and politically outspoken bands of the post-punk era and 30 years later, little has changed on the group’s latest, “Content,” out today on Yep Roc. Although it’s Gang of Four’s first release in 16 years (and first, for some reason, without original bassist Dave Allen and [...]
Jenny Lewis and Johnathan Rice are young, pretty and in love. Luckily for us, they’ve got better things to sing about. On “I’m Having Fun Now,” their first album as duo Jenny and Johnny, Lewis — former lead singer of indie fave Rilo Kiley and a fine alt-country songstress in her own right — and [...]
If 9/11 was a watershed for the country — the world — at large, it has a particular resonance for the tail end of generation X and the leading edge of the millennial generation: it cut short the flush boom years of the ’90s just as they were coming of age, and ushered in a [...]
There was, of course, a time when Brent Amaker didn’t always wear a cowboy outfit, but those days are gone. Now the suits have essentially become a permanent fixture for Amaker and his four-piece band, the Rodeo. The Seattle group wears nothing else while on tour, which is the perfect complement to Amaker’s sound: foreboding, [...]
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 the early ’00s, as the new millennium dawned ugly and crazy, indie rock threw a dance party. The music was bleak and nervous and twitchy — exactly what the world needed, or at least deserved. Taking inspiration from Joy Division and Gang of Four, defunct British acts no one had thought about 20 years, [...]
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