"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
Talk about a grower: On first listen, we were bored 3 seconds in to “Giant Stairs,” a song from A Weather’s new album, “Everday Balloons.” Ten seconds later, we were riveted.
There’s a slow-burning quality to the tune as it moves from a spare guitar intro to hushed harmony vocals from Aaron Gerber and drummer Sarah [...]
Cool bands often come with cool back stories, and the Canadian duo the Pack A.D. is one of them.
Singer and guitarist Becky Black was working in a gas station in East Vancouver, so the story goes, where she met drummer Maya Miller, who declines to say what she was doing (though the pair’s press bio [...]
Few things in life beat a well-constructed pop song, and we’re not talking about hollow Top-40 jams written with mass consumption in mind. We’re talking about songs like “The Winter Stories” by World Atlas.
It’s from the New York band’s self-titled debut, due March 9 on Magic Marker Records. The group started in 2006 as the [...]
There’s more to cool new music than jittery indie-rock. There’s also Dana Falconberry.
The Austin, Texas, singer and songwriter has a captivating voice on songs with a spare, rootsy feel. She cites the influence of, and has been compared to, the likes of Lucinda Williams and Gillian Welch, and while there are some surface similarities, Falconberry [...]
After a career based on introversion — six records, few interviews, no live performances — Swedish duo Club 8 is throwing things wide open on its seventh album, aptly titled “The People’s Record.”
Due May 18, their first album since 2007’s “The Boy Who Couldn’t Stop Dreaming” features a Cuban percussionist and the unmistakable influence of [...]
Confession: Listen, Dammit, has never really understood the hipster obsession with remixes. It’s cool when Kanye does it and you get a sweet verse from Jay-Z, but remixed indie-rock songs have always seemed like overkill — “Last Night” by the Strokes is pretty good on its own, you know?
Now we’re starting to get it, thanks [...]
Sweden’s Moneybrother has won hearts and Grammys overseas, now the solo project of former Monster singer Anders Wendin is gearing up for his full-length U.S. debut with “Real Control.”
Due in April on CD and vinyl, “Real Control” is a catchy throwback to the sound of ’60s and ’70s soul, with a healthy dose of punk [...]
Austin, Texas, noise-rockers … And You Will Know Us by the Trail of Dead have never been known for subtlety, so it may take a minute to wrap your head around the sound of Borrowed Eyes and the Blood Red Road, the new band from former Trail of Dead member Danny Wood.
It’s more akin to [...]
Love gone wrong is a pretty regular song topic, but not this wrong: After a relationship gone sour, Pennsylvania singer and songwriter Timothy Showalter returned home one day to find only the charred ruins of what had been his house.
Showalter, who teaches at a Hebrew dayschool and, his publicity material says, even drives the school [...]
The first song on the sophomore album by the Wagner Logic is called “Waiting for Snow.” Given that the band is from Alaska, we’re guessing it’s never a very long wait.
Snow jokes aside, the Alaska thing is significant: the song is like a photo negative of that psychedelic California sound from the ’60s, with reverb-heavy, [...]
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