"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
The band is named Jail Weddings, and Vice magazine says the single “(There’s Nothing Worse in the World Than a) Crying Girl,” which it premiered, is “music to have knife sex to.” That’s a heady combination that’s well worth investigating. The band, a nine-piece Los Angeles crew, comes complete with a worldview, courtesy of leader [...]
Think “classically trained pianist” and “white-girl rapper” probably isn’t the next thought that comes to mind, but Seattle’s Katie Kate is both. It gets more incongruous: Katie Kate grew up on a farm in upstate New York, earned a degree in classical piano from Cornish College of the Arts in 2009 and landed in Seattle, [...]
Now that almost 1960s-style retro soul has become pretty well established, a few people are digging down a little deeper: JD McPherson mines the sound of vintage black rock ‘n’ roll and R&B on his searing debut, “Signs & Signifiers,” while Nick Waterhouse swings with style through ’50s-era R&B on his new “Time’s All Gone” [...]
We got a tip to check out Tulsa band Broncho, and our tipster (JD McPherson, if you must know) was right: these guys kick ass. Broncho plays full-throttle rock ‘n’ roll with sweaty abandon on its 10-song, 20-minute (!) 2011 debut, “Can’t Get Past the Lips,” which takes the sounds and attitudes of punk and [...]
Maybe Moonlight Bride is one of those under-the-radar bands that’s ready to break in 2012. They should be one of those bands, if killer songs are any measure. The Chattanooga band’s new EP, “Twin Lakes” (out Feb. 28), is just five tracks long, but they’re five thrilling tracks, spacious and bold with bursts of noise shattering [...]
We’ve already told you about Leonard Friend, the new musical persona New York musician Alex Feder established after getting fed up with the scene and moving to California — and you listened to his sweet booty-rattling single “Serious Music.” Now it’s time to check out the whole EP. “Lynyrd Frynd” (nice touch) is a 7-song [...]
It’s a strange and heady combination, but Dare Dukes operates in the middle ground between the suburban uniformity of his native San Jose, and what the critic Greil Marcus once called the “old, weird America,” a place populated by marginal characters on apparently vital missions. “These missions, these people, they are what my music is [...]
If it’s not the first new release of 2012, it has to be close: Secret Colours posted its latest, “EP3,” on Bandcamp Jan. 1, and those five new songs can be yours for less than $1 each. It’s a varied collection that spans the stormy psychedelic rocker “Faust,” the acoustic “Carry My Soul,” featuring ghostly [...]
Time to kick off 2012 — with a piece of unfinished business from 2011. That’s right, buried in the vast recesses of our e-mail inbox, and escaping notice until now, was a link to “Plastic Disaster” by Little Cuts. The band is the project of Dave Hernandez, the erstwhile Shins bassist, who also fronted Albuquerque [...]
After parting ways in the mid-’90s, Jayhawks vocalists Mark Olson and Gary Louris re-teamed for an acoustic tour in 2005, which went so well they toured again and made a duo album under their own names in 2009. Finally they made it official with a full-on reunion, resulting in “Mockingbird Time” (Rounder), their first release [...]
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