"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 have no idea what the hell they’re talking about in the press bio for Neverever, but we’ll give a listen to anything on Slumberland. Our faith was rewarded: Even obtuse rambling about “Sacred Symbols of the Ancients” and “sugar empire heirs” can’t derail “Wedding Day,” the abrasively catchy free song from Neverever’s forthcoming EP, [...]
It seems the fine folks at Dirtnap Records have been busy scouring the Great White North for rollicking post-punk bands. They found one: Sonic Avenues, a Montreal group that cut its teeth on the Ottawa scene. We know what you’re thinking: There’s an Ottawa scene?
Yes, but try to focus: Sonic Avenues formed in 2006, released [...]
Long regarded an alt-country band (or, by its own estimation, “Nashville’s most fucked-up country band”), Lambchop has long been something more. Especially in more recent years, Kurt Wagner’s group has branched out with albums exploring soul and a knowing sort of lounge music.
“If Not I’ll Just Die” fits the latter category. It’s the first tune [...]
If we’re being honest, reggae isn’t the sort of thing we usually go for here at LD WHQ. That said, JOGYO has our full attention on their single “Rudeboy.”
Then again, it’s more than just reggae. The duo, Dru Barnes and Devi Mambouka, mixes the dancehall sounds of his native Jamaica (he grew up in Trenchtown) [...]
Not only did Fucked Up release one of this year’s coolest albums with “David Comes to Life,” even the Canadian ensemble’s side projects sound great. For example, the Marvelous Darlings.
Co-founded in 2007 by Matt Delong and Ben Cook, who would join Fucked Up on guitar the following year, the Marvelous Darlings have spent the intervening [...]
“Summery” is an adjective frequently used to describe The Don’ts and Be Carefuls — all the more reason to embrace the Denver band’s new EP, given that winter seems to already be clutching at wide swaths of the U.S.
The foursome, formed in 2008, is giving away two of the seven songs on “Sun Hits.” The [...]
We can’t take credit for the term, but it fits: Zun Zun Egui makes “free-range” rock.
The Bristol, UK, band has a decidedly experimental bent on “Fandango Fresh,” the free song from the foursome’s forthcoming debut. Chunky bass lumbers along under abrasive, angular guitar, swooping synthesizers and jittery beats, while singer Yoshino Shigihara barks out lyrics [...]
You know Hunters has promise by the inventive descriptions floating around of the Brooklyn band: “Olympia-approved grunge” with “catchy boy/girl tribal vocals,” says RCRD LBL, while My Old Kentucky Blog hails the band as “neo-no wave scuzpoppers.” The Village Voice waxes especially rhapsodic, calling Hunters “bummblegum-sludge bashers.”
We’re not entirely sure what “bummblegum” is (did Hubba [...]
Just when we thought we’d had enough bedroom electro-disco to last the rest of this lifetime — if not several successive lifetimes — Baron Von Luxxury has us thinking maybe we were o’er hasty.
Like everyone else making synth pop music these days, His Lordship is interested (say the press notes) in “the divide between the [...]
It’s inevitable in indie-rock circles that the name “Athens” conjures Georgia, not Greece, but Keep Shelly in Athens is from the original Athens. The self-described “downbeat pop” duo returns this fall with a new 12-inch EP, “Our Own Dream,” to mark its first U.S. tour.
The pair released its debut last year, and “In Love With [...]
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