"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
With a handful of exceptions — namely, Dave Grohl — outside projects from drummers in successful rock bands are usually a bad idea, and that includes Don Henley. And the Eagles, for that matter.
It does not, however, include Radiohead’s Philip Selway.
Selway knows the deal: “It’s a cardinal sin for drummers to come in to rehearsals [...]
We admit it, we have a fondness for stoner rock, and the weirder, the better. Tweak Bird fits the bill.
Comprising brothers Ashton and Caleb Bird on drums and guitar, respectively, the southern Illinois duo has converted the mammoth sprawl of prog-metal into short bursts of lean, leathery rock. Produced by Dale Crover of the Melvins [...]
Rock ‘n’ roll and the suburbs go way back. In 1958, when Eddie Cochran caught the “Summertime Blues,” it was because his parents wouldn’t let him take the car and go for a drive — about the only thing you can do when you’re 16 and have no money.
The following decade, the hippies took a [...]
After releasing a series of 7-inch singles over the past year, Best Coast has made a surprise bid for sweetest summer album of 2010 with “Crazy For You” (Mexican Summer), the Los Angeles duo’s full-length debut.
Not only has the album already cracked the top 40 on the Billboard 200 albums chart, debuting at No. 36, [...]
Julie Ann Baenziger has a voice that confounds comparison. In a business always trolling for the next so-and-so, Baenziger (known as Jules) simply sounds like herself: she’s 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.
Her vocals are the [...]
Past Wolf Parade efforts seemed to see-saw between Dan Boeckner’s terse rockers and Spencer Krug’s more experimental songs, which generally made for interesting, if sometimes uneven listening.
They’ve struck a balance on their latest, “Expo 86″ (Sub Pop). The band’s third LP is a collection of 11 new songs that are at once expansive and knotty. [...]
On the first few Gaslight Anthem releases—two full-lengths and an EP—New Jersey-born singer, guitarist, and songwriter Brian Fallon put enthusiasm before artistry, scrawling broad-stroke valentines to his rock ‘n’ roll heroes: Tom Petty, Mike Ness, Joe Strummer, Counting Crows, and of course, Bruce Springsteen. The music was earnest, rousing and [...]
There are moments on “Becoming a Jackal,” the full-length debut from Villagers, when singer Conor J. O’Brien gives the impression that he’s just broken through the fourth wall to address you personally, like a TV news anchor who pauses from his script to look straight into the camera and call you by name.
It’s at once [...]
This is one of those weird stories best suited to rock ‘n’ roll: In maybe 1970, a 17-year-old high school girl recorded a handful of songs in the back of a music store in Rockford, Ill., accompanied on acoustic guitar by a member of Pisces, a local psychedelic rock band.
The singer, Linda Bruner, is thought [...]
Many activities are suitable accompaniment for the music of LCD Soundsystem. Driving is not one of them.
We tried. But James Murphy’s dance-punk jams are too mesmerizing for so passive an activity, and the last thing you want is to zone out on the highway while you’re doing 75. Next thing you know, you’re embedded in [...]
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