"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
First of all, it’s very difficult to believe that Mirel Wagner is just 23. The Ethiopian-born, Finland-raised singer has the air of someone who has done far more living than that on a pair of songs from her forthcoming self-titled debut. They’re folk songs, probably, in that they consist mostly of spooky acoustic guitar and [...]
One day earlier and she totally would have had the anti-Valentine’s Day crowd: Katy Goodman, aka La Sera, is giving away “Break My Heart,” the second free song from her forthcoming second album. It’s fast, pointed and oh-so-catchy, with Goodman’s breathy voice floating over a churning mass of garage-pop guitars. Nice one, Katy. She previously [...]
Straight from the indie-rock hotbed of … Gowanus? OK, maybe the section of Brooklyn known mostly for its toxic canal isn’t an indie-rock hotbed — yet. Sounds like the local duo Lightouts is doing its damnedest to change that, though. Comprising singer/guitarist Greg Nelson and guitarist/songwriter Gavin Rhodes, Lightouts is off to a busy start in [...]
The Pharmacy is one of those bands that’s been around for a while, making kick-ass music mostly under the radar on three LP, some 7-inches and a whole bunch of live dates over the past decade. After a stint in New Orleans, the group is back home in Seattle, where the trio recorded a new [...]
Variations on the term “psychedelic” are frequently employed to describe Inca Gold, and it’s understandable enough: the English quartet that makes spacey, swirling music that gets a lot of comparisons to bands like Portishead. Still, all those “psychedelic” appellations seem overly broad, at least on “Atom,” the band’s latest free download. It’s ethereal, with subtle [...]
It’s always entertaining to read the ways in which music writers attempt to avoid explaining how an artist actually sounds and resort instead to reductionist shorthand like “The Band meets Lou Reed” or “What Lou Reed would sound like if he was asked to front Tom Waits’ Mule Variations band.” Both are descriptions of Leland [...]
“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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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