"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
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
It’s old-school meets young-blood when Jamie xx takes a crack at remixing Gil Scott-Heron. Scott-Heron, the wildly influential spoken-word/jazz/funk/proto-rap/whatever best known for his scathing, satirical track “The Revolution Will Not Be Televised,” re-emerged in February with “I’m New Here,” his first album in 13 years. Jamie xx, one-quarter of acclaimed UK indie-pop act The xx, [...]
We’ve mentioned Your Youth once or twice before, but this time they have a video for their song “Diamond,” and it’s pretty sweet. The band and director Jay Buim started with the idea of a classic party video, and then gave it a little tweak: kids jumping around while a live band plays became kids [...]
There was something charmingly handmade about the Pains of Being Pure at Heart’s self-titled first album in 2009, a record with a warm, buzzy, lo-fi sound. Sounds like they’ve upgraded for the follow-up. “Heart in Your Heartache,” the first song from the band’s forthcoming second LP, sounds gigantic, with dreamy vocals and pulsing keyboards alongside [...]
Must be all that youthful energy: Jake and Jamin Orrall have not been idle since leaving Be Your Own Pet to focus on JEFF the Brotherhood. Along with various 7-inch singles, the duo last year released its full-length debut, “Heavy Days” and today announces the follow-up, “We Are the Champions.” The album isn’t due until [...]
One of the most gorgeous and compelling albums we’ve heard this year is Y La Bamba’s album “Lupon” (we haven’t found time to review it yet, but it’s coming — we promise). Fronted by singer Luzelena Mendoza, the band draws on a combination of her strict Catholic upbringing, the harmonies of the traditional Mexican music [...]
Don’t let the name fool you — Yuck is anything but. With a scant year of experience, the British band just signed to Fat Possum, which will release Yuck’s yet-to-be-titled debut early next year. In the meantime, though, the band releases the catchy single “Georgia” Nov. 23. The song wraps wistful male-female vocal harmonies in [...]
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