"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
Because there’s no such thing as too much Big Star, you should go here right now to stream the three-song “Live Tribute to Alex Chilton” EP, featuring John Davis, that came out today.
No lie: the songs sound flat-out spectacular. Read more Big Star coverage here, here and here.
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Divorce parties aren’t all that rare, though we suspect it’s a little less common when the couple in question co-hosts one. Yet that’s what Jack White and Karen Elson are doing: the couple Friday announced a shindig to celebrate their sixth anniversary “and upcoming divorce.”
“We feel so fortunate for the time we have shared and [...]
First, Teen Girl Scientist Monthly is an outstanding band name. Think of the t-shirt possibilities! Second, Teen Girl Scientist Monthly is also a great band.
Although the New York sextet doesn’t quite create the “completely new and entirely original sound” their PR promises (there seem to be a lot of facile Arcade Fire-meets-Black Lips comparisons), the [...]
Post-rock is all about patience, as largely instrumental bands such as, say, Explosions in the Sky, take their time crafting soundscapes that unfold slowly into rapturous kaleidoscopes of sound.
Broken Cities takes the patience thing a step further. Inspired by Radiohead’s “In Rainbows” model and by authors who release book chapters one at a time, the [...]
New drummer, new label, new record (and sweet new duds, above): Vivian Girls return this spring with “Share the Joy,” the Brooklyn trio’s first album for Polyvinyl, and first with drummer Fiona Campbell (her predecessor left for Best Coast).
The Girls describe the album as “cleaner and more hi-fi” and “more pyschedelic and less shoegaze,” claims [...]
After foundering in recent years, Misra Records this week announced its relaunch, a new distribution deal with Chicago indie label Bloodshot and a free digital compilation of songs by artists who have called Misra home, Centro-matic, Great Lake Swimmers, Destroyer and Southeast Engine among them.
Speaking of Southeast Engine, drummer Leo DeLuca heads the reconstituted Misra [...]
After dropping an excellent debut last year, Jana Hunter’s new band Lower Dens starts off the new year with “Batman,” a catchy new single.
Hunter formed the band in 2009 after a pair of solo albums and a series of collaborations with the likes of Devendra Banhart and Castanets. Lower Dens started as her backing band [...]
If anyone can successfully blend wistful with cheeky, it’s the Futureheads. And wouldn’t you know it, the band puts its talents to work on a new holiday song, “Christmas Was Better in the 80’s.”
It’s a careening remembrance of being a kid at Christmastime, complete with ringing bells, sturdy choir-like vocal harmonies, pell-mell guitars and preposterous [...]
Ooh, how’s this: Those Drive-By Truckers just keep rolling. Or, it’d take a runaway-truck ramp to stop these Truckers. Or, good thing there aren’t any cops around, ’cause the Drive-By Truckers are hauling ass at top speed down a mountain, open bottle o’ Jack on the dashboard, and they don’t have any brakes! OK, too [...]
Not only is it convenient to score your own films, it’s a smart way of making sure you get exactly what you want. Aside from Billygoat, though, we can’t think of anyone with the talent to so impressively manage both.
David Klein and Nick Woolley have been collaborating as Billygoat since 2006, shooting animated stop-motion shorts [...]
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