"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
“Simple pop songs” and “Berklee College of Music” don’t usually go together, given that Berklee is more often a place where dudes with monster chops are intent on making sure you KNOW they have monster chops. Mirror Lady avoids that temptation on “Roman Candles,” the free song from their forthcoming EP.
Formed at Berklee when T.J. [...]
The description “classical instrumentation, folk rawness and hip-hop production” coupled with “haunting” vocals sounds at first like the sort of breathless praise the Lana Del Rey hype machine has come up with, but in this case, we’re talking about Emily Wells, a singer who seems rather more real.
Wells, a Texas native, has drawn notice for [...]
With just a month to go before the release of “New Multitudes,” the new collaboration by Jay Farrar, Will Johnson of Centro-matic, Anders Parker and Yim Yames on archival Woody Guthrie songs, the foursome is letting slip an idea of how the record sounds with a free song.
Guthrie’s daughter, Nora, has said the group gravitated [...]
First, we can’t believe it’s going on two years already since Damien Jurado released the very good “Saint Bartlett.” Second, we’re just floored by how great his new song is.
“Museum of Flight” is the free song from his forthcoming album “Maraqopa.” Jurado sings at the top of his vocal range, reaching now and then into [...]
“Lupon,” the 2010 debut from Portland, Ore., band Y La Bamba, was an excellent albums that didn’t get nearly enough attention, and the song “Juniper” is still in frequent rotation at Listen, Dammit, World Headquarters. Maybe Y La Bamba will earn a little more notice for the follow-up, due in February.
“Court the Storm” builds on [...]
Listening to Dirty Fences, you just know someone in the band is the proud owner of a grease- or motor-oil stained denim jacket.
With a loose, rollicking rock ‘n’ roll vibe, the Boston band (that Celtics jacket isn’t just for show) is a welcome antidote to all those fussy Berklee kids intent on reinventing power-pop or [...]
Instead of trying our damnedest to come up with a compelling description of Conduits singer Jenna Morrison, we’re going with the one in the press notes for the band’s new album. She has, say these press notes, “that rare combination of attainability and remoteness.” Perfect.
Morrison came to the Omaha band after JJ Idt and Nate [...]
Last year’s self-titled debut from La Sera’s was a hazy, dreamy collection of songs that established Vivian Girls drummer Katy Goodman as a potent bandleader in her own right (remember “Come Around?”) — an impression reinforced by the first song from La Sera’s sophomore album.
“Please Be My Third Eye” is faster and tougher than anything [...]
What happens when you pair a cross-country car trip with Michael Jackson’s “Dangerous,” the Dismemberment Plan’s “Emergency and I,” Usher’s “Confessions,” Phil Collins’ “Face Value,” the Marvin Gaye/Tammi Terrell duets and the first three records by the Time? Why, you get Leonard Friend.
It’s the new indie-R&B persona of Alex Feder, who fronted Brooklyn’s XYZ Affair [...]
Achieving the right measure of chaos in a rock song is an art form: too much and you sound like shit. Too little and who cares? When you get it just right, though, it’s electric and thrilling. The Quiet Americans hit the mark on “Weird Mountain,” a song from a cassette-only EP the Fresno, Calif., [...]
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