"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
Sub Pop Records doesn’t have much of a track record with hip-hop, so it’s worth paying attention to the fact that the Seattle label has partnered with the local hip-hop collective Shabazz Palaces — possibly the label’s first-ever rap act.
It’s not hard to see why Sub Pop was interested: with smart, incisive lyrics and bone-deep [...]
Carrie Brownstein may hold out hope for a Sleater-Kinney reunion, but singer and guitarist Corin Tucker seems plenty busy these days fronting her own new eponymous group.
Four years after announcing a Sleater-Kinney “hiatus,” the Corin Tucker Band is slated to release its debut, “1,000 Years,” Oct. 5 on Kill Rock Stars. As you might expect, [...]
What started as a one-off show in Las Vegas Oct. 3 for the Matador Records 21st birthday anniversary party has expanded to a full-on Guided By Voices reunion tour scheduled for this fall, Pitchfork reports. Because even pick-up basketball and drinking beer in your garage all day Sunday can get boring after a while.
Actually, GBV [...]
Even the title is cool: “Warp Riders,” the third record from Austin metal stalwarts The Sword, is due Aug. 24 on Kemado Records.
As you would expect from a band given to conceptual suites built around the sludgy sound of old-school metal with lyrics drawn from Norse mythology and sci-fi writers like Arthur C. Clarke, the [...]
Good news, kids: Superchunk is reissuing its second and third records next month on vinyl (along with CD and digital download).
The influential Chapel Hill band, founded by Mac McCaughan and Laura Ballance in 1989, more or less in conjunction with Merge Records, released “No Pocky for Kitty” in 1991 and “On the Mouth” in 1993. [...]
It’s a milestone: Of Montreal releases its 10th album, “False Priest,” Sept. 14 on Polyvinyl.
The record, co-produced by Of Montreal front man Kevin Barnes and the eminently tasteful Jon Brion (of Aimee Mann, Rufus Wainwright and Kanye West renown), boasts 13 new songs, including two with Janelle Monáe and one with Solange Knowles.
First single “Coquet [...]
You can bet that Nathan Williams is not going to screw it up this time. After nearly short-circuiting his musical career last year, the singer, guitarist and overall mastermind behind lo-fi garage-rock band Wavves returns with a third album, “King of the Beach.” The Fat Possum release, originally scheduled for Aug. 3, is now available [...]
If you believe the comic strip that comes with the band’s press material, Yellow Fever is actually a pair of cats that studied up on back issues of Popular Mechanics and learned to build “fully functional lifelike human replicants.” We think maybe they’re stretching the truth a little: everyone knows cats can’t read.
Regardless, the Austin, [...]
Yesterday we told you about Versus, a New York band releasing its first album in a decade. That’s no time time at all compared to the Vaselines, who are releasing their first album in two decades.
The influential Scottish indie-pop band (Kurt Cobain was a fan) released its only full-length LP, “Dum Dum,” in 1990, which [...]
After five years playing keyboards and singing with the New Pornographers, Kathryn Calder steps out this summer with her solo debut, “Are You My Mother?”
As it happens, Calder’s mother is the sister of A.C. Newman, the New Pornographers’ leader, though none of them were aware of that fact until about 10 years ago. That was [...]
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