"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
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 collection of [...]
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 about,” [...]
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 female [...]
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 punks [...]
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 [...]
Lydia Loveless is a bundle of contradictions on her second album, “Indestructible Machine” (Bloodshoot): the 21-year-old Ohio singer with the booming voice is a self-proclaimed shit-talker who’s sometimes too anxious to leave her house, she knows from broken hearts but makes “perfectly good men cry,” and wishes she were more outgoing even as she defiantly [...]
“Defies categorization” is a designation that way too many acts think they deserve. Usually it means they’re a shitty jam band, which is easy enough to categorize. Then there’s Cheyenne Marie Mize, whose forthcoming EP demonstrates a striking range of abilities, none of which are remotely jammy (and thank God for [...]
Often overlooked, Dex Romweber shows why he’s worth paying attention to on the latest from his Dex Romweber Duo, “Is That You in the Blue?”
We don’t know much about the Infinities, except that they’re new, from New York and write catchy songs laced with pop hooks and little blips of electronica.
The quartet recently released its debut EP, “Etiquette,” a five-song collection that shows considerable promise. The first three, in particular, are worth a listen: Opener “Apologetica” rides a sturdy [...]
Texas indie-rockers Centro-matic return with “Candidate Waltz,” the band’s most muscular album to date.
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