"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
Remember as a kid pretending that the floor was made of lava, which necessitated jumping from one piece of furniture to another (and driving your parents nuts) to avoid getting incinerated by your shag carpeting? Dallas “high-energy alternative folk-pop” band Parallel Play sure remembers. In fact, the group has applied the concept to its debut [...]
Seems like The Pharmacy just released the EP “Dig Your Grave,” but the Seattle band is back already with a new four-song set, “Josephine,” that keeps the adrenaline pumping. Recorded in the same studio where Nirvana made “Bleach,” the songs on “Josephine” are a little less chaotic than “Dig Your Grave,” which is not to [...]
Confession: Pitches that compare newer bands to Uncle Tupelo, Wilco, the Drive-By Truckers and Whiskeytown definitely get our attention. Could any one act actually sound like a mix of all those other groups we love? Well, no. But Truckstop Darlin’ definitely plays in the same raw-boned, whiskey-soaked roots-rock style as the bands on that list, particularly [...]
Ty Segall’s name has been in the ether lately, thanks to the California musician’s various collaborations and projects, one of which is a new release by his own Ty Segall Band. The album, “Slaughterhouse,” is the first album Segall has recorded with his touring band, which also consists of Mikal Cronin, Charlie Moothart and Emily Rose [...]
On the one hand, it’s not hard to figure out how Portland singer and songwriter M. William Helfrich arrived at the stage name mbilly. On the other hand, mbilly? Fortunately, his stark, gutty music makes up for any naming affectations. Helfrich’s second album, “Malheur” (named for the county in eastern Oregon where he grew up), [...]
As band names go, No Monster Club is a pretty good one, and the Irish trio shows it’s more than just a name on a chaotic song from the band’s new album, “Dublin.” “Be My Bone” wraps a sunny vintage-pop melody inside a spiky tangle of guitar, drums, bass and a trilling organ part. It’s [...]
Singer and songwriter Michael the Blind may have vision trouble, but he has a keen ear, too, and that has to be some consolation. A New Yorker by birth, Michael Levasseur grew up in a weird corner of South Carolina, lived in Athens, Ga., and ultimately moved to Portland, Ore. Stints in bands led eventually to [...]
White Lung describes itself on Facebook as “a terrible band from Vancouver.” They got the location right, but White Lung is anything but terrible. “Ferocious,” in fact, is a better adjective. The group thrashes its way through “Take the Mirror,” the free song from the foursome’s forthcoming “Sorry.” Out May 29, it’s White Lung’s second [...]
Just when you’d finally gotten Brent Amaker & the Rodeo’s cover of “Pocket Calculator” out of your head, the Seattle Western combo is back with a twangified version of “I Can’t Wait,” a long-since forgotten song from Ric Ocasek’s 1982 solo album “Beatitude.” Amaker stumbled upon the song while rummaging through his new-wave LPs while [...]
Turns out that Seville, Spain, has an indie-rock scene (who knew?), and that scene includes the shoegaze duo I Am Dive. Now, for the first time, the band — Jose A. Perez, at left above, and Esteban Ruiz — is releasing its music in the U.S. today with an EP, “Constellations,” on Slanty Shanty. (It’s [...]
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