"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
We know, we just referenced Bowie the other day, but he’s everywhere this year, including in the sound of Dominant Legs.
The San Francisco duo — featuring Girls guitarist Ryan Lynch and new pal Hannah Hunt, a former architecture student Lynch met when she moved back to California from New York — makes dance-ready pop music [...]
New York duo the Gay Blades won our hearts with its “Ghosts” LP, a collection of slightly unhinged, gloriously trashy rock tunes with titles like “Why Can’t I Grow a Beard?” and “Robots Can Fuck Your Shit Up.”
Singer and guitarist James Dean Wells and drummer Quinn English return Oct. 5 with a more mature (though [...]
We hear a lot of songs at Listen, Dammit, but few are as immediately striking as “Bright One” by the Polyamorous Affair.
The song is from “Strange Bedfellows,” the latest album from the nomadic duo, which currently splits time between Copenhagan and Berlin.
What’s most striking to our ears is the contrast between the glossy, almost chilly [...]
Taking literally the old saying about absence making the heart grow fonder, former members of ’90s indie-pop band the Autocollants have put aside the differences that ended the band in 1997 to embark on a new project — from a distance.
Now calling themselves Tears Run Rings, Laura Watling, Matthew Bice, Ed Mazzucco and Dwayne Palasek [...]
We sometimes get confused by the profusion of bands with animals in their names: all those bears, deer, wolves, tigers and pandas can make the head spin. Hot Panda, though, is clearly a band worth remembering, judging by the free song from its forthcoming sophomore album.
The Canadian foursome recorded “How Come I’m Dead?” in less [...]
We’re told that No Age’s forthcoming third album, “Everything in Between,” represents “bold step in their creative evolution,” which is really saying something, given how bold the Los Angeles art-punk duo sounded on their coruscating debut, “Weirdo Rippers,” and the equally awesome follow-up, “Nouns.”
What makes this new record so great? The usual things that separate [...]
A songwriter as prolific as the Mountain Goats’ John Darnielle is bound to pen a few tunes that don’t fit the rest of his work. For Darnielle, those songs — the ones “that had a) more than three chords or b) a bridge,” in the words of Merge Records — became fodder for the Extra [...]
Sommelier by training, lovelorn by happenstance, musician by avocation: It’s Sharon Van Etten, and she has a new album on the way.
The Jersey-born, Brooklyn-residing singer and songwriter released her debut, “Because I Was in Love,” in 2009. It was a fairly minimal album, particularly in contrast to the darkly lush free song from “Epic,” her [...]
Listen, Dammit, has a fondness for band names that incorporate other artists’ names: Ringo Deathstarr, for example, or (and we know this one’s not real) Kathleen Turner Overdrive. So it’s a given that we like Dale Earnhardt Jr. Jr., too.
The Detroit duo, whose members count themselves as fans of their NASCAR racing namesake, makes quirky [...]
It’s often a bad sign when musicians talk about their music in the context of expanding their (or your) consciousness, but the Natural Extension Concept makes it work.
Led by singer and guitarist Cyrus Shahmir, the Atlanta psych-rockers, known more conveniently as N.E.C., claims to triangulate punk, prog and avant-garde, and the free song from their [...]
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