"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
Minneapolis band Communist Daughter released a stunner of a debut with 2010′s “Soundtrack to the End,” an album of searing songs drawn straight from leader John Solomon’s difficult recent past, which had included struggles with addiction. It’s truly one of the best albums you’ve (probably) never heard. Communist Daughter is back July 10 with “Lions [...]
Amid the sad news today about the death of Adam Yauch of the Beasties Boys comes a ray of light. Through a grime-caked window. In some completely sketchy back-alley peep show. In other words, Turbonegro is back. The Norwegian dirtbag rockers return June 13 with “Sexual Harassment,” their first album since 2007′s “Retox” and first [...]
It’s been a long time: Beachwood Sparks returns June 26 with “Tarnished Gold,” the band’s first LP in 11 years. The alt-country band, formed in 1997, managed two LPs and an EP before the musicians went their separate ways in 2002, doing things like playing in other bands (including Interpol and Ariel Pink’s Haunted Graffiti), [...]
First, who knew chest hair looked so freaky in high contrast? Second, we’re talking about the trippy new video for “I Wanna Love You” by Uncle Bad Touch, a garage-worthy pysch-rock band from Montreal featuring Priestess singer/guitarist Mikey Heppner, his ladyfriend Kathryn McCaughey on bass and the hairy-chested Shawn Butchart on drums. The song comes [...]
“Songs for the Ravens,” Sea of Bees’ 2010 debut, was an understated, overlooked gem of a record, showcasing singer Jules Baenziger’s voice, which we described at the time as being “capable of singing with swooping authority and with supple subtlety, in tones that are clear in the middle and a little fuzzy around the edges.” [...]
Portland chamber-folk band Norfolk and Western hasn’t called it quits, exactly, but maybe don’t wait around for new music fr0m the group. “Norfolk and Western has been dormant for a couple of years now,” singer Adam Selzer writes in a newsletter sent out early Friday morning. “I honestly don’t know if we’ll record or play [...]
Come Feb. 21, Portland band the James Low Western Front releases a new album, “Whiskey Farmer.” First, if we’d known whiskey farmer was a job, we never would have started with this writing bullshit. Second, holy crap, these guys are good. Frontman James Low has vowed to make a video for each of the eight [...]
Earlier this year, we told you about Morning Claws, a Belfast electro-pop band whose music demonstrated impressive depth, at least on the quintet’s first single, “Slack Magic.” The group has not been idle since then. In addition to opening for Twin Sister and Gold Panda, the fivesome found time to record “Pet Storms, Ancient Clouds,” [...]
Just when we had been wondering what Jay Farrar was up to, there’s been news: The Son Volt mastermind has a new project, a collaboration on Woody Guthrie songs with Gob Iron mate Anders Parker, Yim Yames in his non-My Morning Jacket persona and Will Johnson of Centro-matic. While Farrar plans to include some of [...]
This ranks among the dumbest things we’ve ever heard, but it’s real: representatives for “Odelay”/Scientologist/former Flaming Lips tourmate Beck last week contacted Texas roots duo Beck & Cauthen to express their fear that somehow one might be mistaken for the other. And because bassist Dave Beck’s full name is actually Whitbeck, the duo has graciously [...]
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