"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
With old-soul profundity and rootsy rock ‘n’ roll heart, Marah is a Listen, Dammit, favorite — and there’s a new album on the way.
The Brooklyn-by-way-of-Philly band endured a period of turbulence immediately upon the release of 2008’s “Angels of Destruction,” the group’s most recent record. Three members left after clashing with leader Dave Bielenko over [...]
For his last album, 2008’s “A Narrow Way,” Nick Jaina gathered 10 musicians in a studio and recorded all the songs live to tape.
The Portland, Ore., singer and songwriter takes the opposite tack on his new record, “A Bird in the Opera House,” due April 13 on Hush Records. It’s a carefully considered affair, more [...]
Brooklyn rockers the Hold Steady release their fifth album May 4 on Vagrant, the band announced Tuesday morning.
Called “Heaven Is Whenever,” it’s the band’s first record without keyboard player Franz Nicolay (far left) since the Hold Steady’s 2004 debut, “Almost Killed Me.” Nicolay recently left the band to focus on various other projects, inspiring this [...]
Few places had indie-rock scenes as vibrant and truly awesome as Chicago did in the ’90s. The Blacks were a part of it for a too-brief period toward the end of the decade before imploding.
Now, after a decade apart, they’re back with a new EP, “In Sickness and Health.”
Formed in the mid-’90s by guitarist Danny [...]
After four years away, Dutch indie-rockers Bettie Serveert return March 23 with “Pharmacy of Love” on Second Motion.
It’s the trio’s ninth album overall, and first since “Bare Stripped Naked” in 2006. The band’s publicity material describes a “back-to-basics” approach here, intended to capture the raucous energy of a Bettie Serveert live performance. They seem to [...]
His former band Low Skies was once described as “Midwestern Zoloft rock,” and singer, songwriter and guitarist Christopher C. Salveter doesn’t stray too far from the downbeat aesthetic in his new group, Judson Claiborne.
The band self-released its first album, “Before Midnight Scholar,” in 2008 before signing to La Société Expéditionnaire for “Time and Temperature,” which [...]
Nobody packs a wallop quite like the Legendary Shack Shakers.
First, they’re fronted by J.D. Wilkes, a harmonica-playing, raspy voiced devil who’s been known to respond to “Colonel.” Second, their no-holds-barred live shows since forming in 1998 have earned the band the “legendary” part of its name.
It’s going on three years since their last album, 2007’s [...]
Finally, procrastination pays off!
Say that for whatever reason, you’ve been delaying the purchase of the Magnetic Fields 1999 opus “69 Love Songs.” For the past 10 years. Shame on you, obviously. Or maybe you’re the smart one, given that Merge Records today announced the April 20 release of all 69 songs, fully remastered, on vinyl.
What [...]
Funny coincidence: Slumberland Records has announced the forthcoming release of a Black Tambourine anthology, which wouldn’t mean much to Listen, Dammit, except that we’ve been listening the past few weeks to a lot of Black Tambourine.
The Washington D.C. band, a side project for members of Whorl and Velocity Girl, only lasted for two years between [...]
Stacking layers of off-beat female vocal harmonies surely has some arcane symbolic significance in the music of experimental acts like the Dirty Projectors.
Ava Luna, on the other hand, just likes classic girl groups. And electro-punk.
The Brooklyn seven-piece band combines them in arresting fashion on “Services,” a new four-song EP set for release Friday when [...]
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