March 11, 2010 - MP3: Harmony To My Heartbeat You may know Sally Seltmann as New Buffalo. Or maybe you've heard this little song she cowrote and Feist sang, “1234.” Now she's releasing her first album under her own name on Arts & Crafts. Sally's got three shows during SXSW. Be sure to make it out to one of her shows if you can. Thursday March 18, 2010 (9.30pm...
March 11, 2010 - Photo by Josh Goleman Every Place Is A House mp3 Trees, Swallows, Houses … buy it here (and listen to it all as well) Wow, one of my seriously favorite local bands has just dropped some majorly great news! Congrats to Maps & Atlases for signing with Barsuk Records! If you're at SXSW make an effort to go see their show, the energy will blow you a...
March 11, 2010 - Deftones new video for “Rocket Skates” can be seen below. The song comes from the bands new album, Diamond Eyes, due out May 18.
March 11, 2010 - It's always interesting to take a peek at Billboard's HOT HOT singles chart, the Hot 100, and to be mystified at what's popular with our nation's youth these days. I'm turning 40 this year, and I feel increasingly like an old fart. Last week at my favorite pizza joint (that'd be Jimmy & Joe's in Chandler), some high school kid came over to borrow t...
March 11, 2010 - In case you missed the news, Lisa Mitchell has won the Australian Music Prize for 2010, taking away $30k cash for her efforts. I've not heard her debut album, ‘Wonder,' but am told it's actually pretty good for a former Australian Idol star. Regardless, I'd probably feel more comfortable with this prize going to smaller, independent bands like it...
March 11, 2010 - Moby has teamed up with Genero.tv to launch a music video competition; win $5000 to make your own video for Moby's new single, “Wait For Me.”Head over to genero.tv/moby to enter the competition. From there, aspiring video directors will be able to download the track and submit the finished product. All competition entries will be posted for vie...
March 11, 2010 - Wow. Wow. Wow. Epic. Iconic. This new Gaga video totally lives up to all the hype surrounding the premiere. What an incredible piece of work. Nothing short of a masterpiece, and a great continuation of the "Paparazzi" storyline. I'm loving every second of it. What I particularly like is not just the great cinematography, choreography or wild fashio...
March 11, 2010 - Arcade Fire have been confirmed as headliners for the Hove Festival in Norway on July 2nd and Rock Werchter festival in Belgium on July 4th, where they&os;ll go on before Pearl Jam. It&os;s also more or less confirmed that Arcade Fire will also be one of the headliners at this summer&os;s Lollapalooza Festival, their only rumored North American to...
March 11, 2010 - According to the press release, expect to see a whole of SPIN magazine sponsored shows as they celebrate their 25th anniversary. SPIN, America's premier music resource, today announced the elements that will form the brand's 25th anniversary celebration. Starting in March and continuing throughout the year, SPIN will develop a series of live event...
March 11, 2010 - I found out about Kelli Schaefer in the same way you will…through a glowing recommendation. Sure, some might stumble on her later when some big cultural behemoth like NPR becomes a full-blown advocate, but it’s much more likely that a rolling fan base will spring up in the meantime and sweep out over the land until it gets to your house. I am a...
March 11, 2010 - LCD Soundsystem dropped an unnamed instrumental new tune to soundtrack a recent fashion show from designer Yves Saint Laurent. The beats are pretty dope. Live, the band continue to roll out more festival appearances, including stops at Coachella, Sasquatch, Pitchfork and the hippified Camp Biscuit. A rumor is swirling that LCD Soundsystem will p...
March 11, 2010 - Castles Sunk Below The Sea – ‘1992′ (mp3) Castles Sunk Below The Sea make music for thinking deep thoughts to. From the same school of sound as local post-rock bands Willows and The Paper and The Plane, they sound a bit like Appleseed Cast, a bit like Explosions in the Sky and a bit like Brand New. ‘1992′ is a short but powerful track (t...
March 11, 2010 - Before you know it Coldplay will be back – smack dab in the center of the music universe with a new album and all the hype that comes with such an occasion.The new album should be here sometime in 2010, but for now, fans who are catching the band on their current tour of South America are getting an early taste of what to expect from ‘new' Cold...
March 11, 2010 - With so many high-profile albums out this week (and this month for that matter), it once again makes for an increasingly difficult task of figuring out what to spend your hard-earned cash on. First off is Broken Bells, the highly anticipated collaboration between James Mercer, lead singer and guitarist of The Shins, and Brian “Danger Mouse” Bur...
March 11, 2010 - DOWNLOAD: SAADI - "Bad City (Serious Business Remix)" On Saturday, March 13th, SAADI will celebrate the release of their "Bad City" EP, out on Serious Business Records, with a special record release show at Dead Herring (141 S. 5th St. #5E @ Bedford Ave) in Brooklyn. The five-song EP is the work of Boshra AlSaadi, formerly of the band Looker, and...
March 11, 2010 - If you're going to the film portion of SXSW this year, you may just get to see the new vampire flick that stars rock legends Alice Cooper, Iggy Pop, Henry Rollins (and Moby). The name of the film is blatantly Suck, as it takes on the the attitude of heavy rock and roll and then the world of vampires which so many teens and have fallen in love with...
March 11, 2010 - Named after the Faron Young classic, the 1991 Hi-Tone Poppa compilation plays out like your favorite hillbilly deluxe jukebox at your local dive bar. Through the magic of digital distro, the comp is again available. Listening to this with fresh ears, I’d love to see a contemporary take on these tracks by various artists. Speaking [...]...
March 11, 2010 - Autolux, the always-compelling and sometimes-mysterious L.A. art rock trio, have signed to TBD Records, which will release their long-awaited sophomore album “Transit Transit.” An announcement on the band's website says the release date has not yet been decided, but the band has booked a show on April 16 at the Bootleg Theater. That's the day b...
March 11, 2010 - Do you think you got Witty Unpredictable Talent And Natural Game? That's what Wu-Tang Clan is asking people these days and specifically people who are between the ages of 18 and 33 and have mad skills when it comes to spitting rhymes. Have you been a Wu-Tang fan all your life? Do you still think they are the greatest rap collective that ever existe...
March 11, 2010 - With songs both quirky and endearingly candid, singer/songwriter Amber Rubarth is a refreshing talent on the rise.
March 11, 2010 - King Cannons – ‘Teenage Dreams' (mp3) Imma level with you and confess that I don't really “get” ska music. Yeah, The Specials are pretty sick and I can totally see why people dig this stuff, but it's just not ever going to take up much room on my iPod. King Cannons are a newly Melbourne-based but NZ-bred ska band that, to my non-connoisseu...
March 11, 2010 - The Bowery Present kind-of own live music in NYC (and Montclair, New Jersey). They've put on some shows in other cities, but now they're opening their first club outside the tri-state area. The Bowery Presents, the company that puts on concerts at the Bowery Ballroom, Terminal 5 and other spaces in New York, has signed a long-term deal with the Ro...
March 11, 2010 - We told you this was happening a while back, and we're on this new kick where we follow through on things: turns out this track is not a duet but simply a song the two co-wrote with some help from Evan Bogart and Shari Short for Jessica's new VH1 reality show. We would imagine this provided the two of them with nice paycheck, and we've got bills to...
March 11, 2010 - Lanterns won our BeatCrave Fav poll for Februrary 2010, so here is our exclusive interview with the San Diego-based punk band as promised! We talk with lead vocalist and guitarist, Lowell Heflin, about the start of Lanterns, what punk really is, and a bit about what makes the San Diego music scene so great.Check Lanterns out in our BeatCrave Exclus...
March 11, 2010 - Faith No More's Roddy Bottum took to twitter to announce the band's first East Coast date in over a decade. FNM play NY!!!! Williamsburg Waterfront, Brooklyn, July 5! special presale March 16/10amET, we'll tweet a special password that morning. 9:00 AM Mar 10th via web This marks the first (announced) pay show at the Williamsburg Waterfront, the...
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March 11, 2010 - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BbFVp6ifTOw http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W6CfC3Iax-Q Top 5 thoughts while watching the above two videos 1. How in the world did Stress' director convince Monch and Prince Po to shoot a scene shirtless and a snow field? Lung-collapsing pneumonia. 2. Q-Tip's mustache in Stressed Out: ill advised or a bad idea? Ser...
March 11, 2010 - As an amusingly eclectic sold-out crowd packed itself into the House of Blues for Jamie Cullum and Imelda May, I found myself passing judgment on my fellow concertgoers. A couple of fifty-something baby boomers? They must be here for the rockabilly songstress. A throng of young women holding a sign that reads, “Jamie, will you sing at my wedding?
March 11, 2010 - Just when I thought I was unique, just as I've been spending the last six-odd months editing a short story about the misadventures of retail workers during a city-wide blackout (Santa Cruz, circa 2002) I read today that actually everyone has a blackout story. (And no, not that kind of blackout.) Since everyone has a blackout story (read: electrical...
March 11, 2010 - Being that we are only in the month of March, we are probably a bit premature in saying that Via Audio's latest album, Animalore, should hold one of the coveted spots for the best album of the year. We're known tend to cast bets early around here; it's a confident one, to be sure. The East-Coast-based band's sophomore album dabbles in most everyt...
March 11, 2010 - Do you like free music? Hell yeah you do, otherwise you'd be standing in line with money in your hand, paying for it like a sucker. (Note: I still buy lots of music. Especially vinyl. I am just goofing around here. Go with it) MASTERBEAT.com (yes, I said that again and yes, they are a new online music superstore) is celebrating their launch by...
March 11, 2010 - it's raining musical gems at the Free Music Archive! >> Percussion Lab Burkina Electric S.S. Records joins the FMA>> Cyclic Bits: The Raymond Scott Variations 2010 Golden Festival highlights mix Welcome Karl Blau to the FMA Greatest It Nadja live at ISSUE Project Room Infinite...
March 11, 2010 - She Keeps Bees isn't a new name to us at BeatCrave. We were lucky enough to interview the duo for our Know Your NYC Bands series back in 2009, but that doesn't mean we can't continue to share the wealth. As you may have noticed, She Keeps Bees is not just a she but a two-person band that consists of Jessica Larrabee and Andy LaPlant.The duo first c...
March 11, 2010 - I’m hearing that fuzz-loving Swedish sad bastards The Radio Dept. will tour the U.S. this fall (finally!) in support of the release of their album-of-the-year-caliber Clinging to a Scheme, due from Labrador on April 21. And yes, that means an L.A. date! Fingers crossed it’s the Troubadour, but dudes are welcome anywhere and everywhere. The Radi...
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March 11, 2010 - Swedish BTW Fredrik continue making moody, bleak videos for Trilogi. It’s completely appropriate for their brand of muffled, wintery folk, “Milo” included. Like their clip for “Vinterbarn,” the band uses stop motion to create something dreamy here. The stills were taken with a broken 35mm camera, then processed with ol...
March 11, 2010 - Rocker/raconteur/dreamboat Andrew W.K. has been keeping super busy over the last few years. He’s got his own show on the Cartoon Network (Destroy Build Destroy), a stake in heavily trafficked rock club in NYC (Santo’s Party House), and he’s hosted events ranging from Revolver Magazine’s Golden Gods Award Show to LimeWire/DMF...
March 11, 2010 - Fuck Buttons @ Bowery Ballroom in November (more by Jake Forney) Fuck Buttons, already set to play ATP NY's birthday party lineup on September 4th in upstate NY, will be coming to NYC as part of a short May tour much sooner. The show is in Brooklyn at Music Hall of Williamsburg on May 21st. Ticket info to come. The band has a new 12" single, "Ol...
March 11, 2010 - Moon Duo is the San Francisco twosome of Sanae Yamada and Wooden Shjips’ Erik Johnson. It’s not surprising they mention Suicide, Silver Apples, and Royal Trux as influences. As the last name in that series hints, they’re also into soulfully noise and jazzed-out experimentation (Coltrane, Rashied Ali show up in their one-sheet). Th...
March 11, 2010 - “New online lockboxes allow you to specify beforehand who’ll get your passwords, which private Flickr photos should be purged, and what final status should be posted at Facebook, but these services are no substitute for a will. And writers and other artists should be especially careful about relying on them.” Maud Newton ponders the potential...
March 11, 2010 - Read and comment. From thedailyswarm.com.
March 11, 2010 - New Orleans-based quintet Brass Bed have been honing their act since 2007, adding bells, whistles, and band members to their homespun rock ditties and supporting the likes of Elf Power and The Walkmen on tour. Quickly proving their mettle in the Southern indie-rock scene, Brass Bed are now poised to make a splash at this year’s SXSW. The BB b...
March 11, 2010 - by BBG DOWNLOAD: The Cassettes - "Writing Analog Letters" (MP3) DOWNLOAD: The Cassettes - "Monkeyshine Pantsuit" (MP3) The Cassettes The Cassettes- a four-piece self-proclaimed "steampunk" stompy rootsy rock n' roll band from Washington, D.C. [was] started by Frodus frontman Shelby Cinca as a solace from his post-punk screaming endeavors. They r...
March 11, 2010 - Zooey Deschanel won't be able to trade in on her charm and beauty forever. But for now, she continues to make the most of it: with the video for “In The Sun's” hula hoops, winks and choreographed high school dance routines, the singer-actress nods to the '50s, Glee and as many adorability signifiers as she can squeeze into one clip. I'm still s...
March 11, 2010 - Guardian: Be it Lily Allen or Rihanna, Little Boots or Pixie Lott, pop music is plastered with poster girls. The irony is that for every Barbara Streisand and Celine Dion, I could name 20 VV Browns, Remi Nicoles and Siobhan Donaghys who’ve flagged into chart oblivion. Read and comment. From guardian.co.uk.
March 11, 2010 - by BBG DOWNLOAD: Black Milk - "Dreams" (MP3) DOWNLOAD: Bisco Smith - "Vibrations" (MP3) DOWNLOAD: Dres of Black Sheep - "Doin It Wrong" (MP3) DOWNLOAD: Crown Royale - "Photographs" (MP3) DOWNLOAD: Diamond District - "Who I Be" (Marco Polo Remix) (MP3) DOWNLOAD: Finale - "Motor Music" produced by Black Milk (MP3) DOWNLOAD: ILL-Literacy - "Gentleman...
March 11, 2010 - It was another night at Bardot for their Lo-Fi series, but of course BeatCrave doesn't go out to see “just another band.” Following Manifest Equality on Saturday night, we went right over to catch a set by New Jersey's rock band, Steel Train. As a band who has traveled on the road for most of their existence, Steel Train turned a small show at...
March 11, 2010 - MSG Entertainment and Metropolitan Talent Presents are proud to welcome Conan O’Brien to Radio City Music Hall on Tuesday, June 1, 2010 and Wednesday, June 2 at 8pm. Conan O’Brien will headline a live comedy/music revue that begins a two-month, 30-city tour on April 12th. The aptly titled “Legally Prohibited from Being Funny on Television”...
March 11, 2010 - Of all the big names in the summer music festival game, Bonnaroo has always seemed the most ripe for parody to us. We don't mean this as a knock on the festival. We simply mean the half-hippie, half-hipster stigma it has suffered from in recent years is ready for jokes. This is why we were pretty thrilled to see they're making at least a portion o...
March 11, 2010 - Click here to view the embedded video. Who isn't a fan of some old-school Sci-Fi footage, chicken suits, Humpty-Dumpty and a giant drag queen? Enjoy this quirky video from Chicago-based Skybox. (You may recognize the song from a 2009 iPod commercial.) They'll be playing a handful of times in Austin including an official showcase on 3/18 at the Wave...
March 11, 2010 - Greg Kot at the Chicago Tribune has the scoop. Just got off the phone with Julian Casablancas and he confirms that the Strokes will indeed be headlining Lollapalooza this summer as first reported here a few weeks ago. He says he’s pretty stoked about the band’s string of festival dates this summer. “We’re getting the biggest offers of ou...
March 11, 2010 - Pearl Jam are touring following their headlining slot at the New Orleans Jazz Festival. Band of Horses have been enlisted to serve as the opening act on the trek, with the Black Keys subbing in for the May 20th MSG show. Tickets go on sale to Pearl Jam’s Ten Club members on March 15th, with a public on-sale to follow on March 19th. PEARL JAM TO...
March 11, 2010 - I’m into different kinds of music for different reasons. Not everything goes down easy, so it’s a treat when something’s as unabashedly catchy and straight-up fun as 17-year-old Tampa rapper Dominique Young Unique’s “Show My Ass.” And it’s a plus when a summer jam involves this much (actual) personality and...
March 11, 2010 - Gang Gang Dance @ MHOW in January (more by Benjamin Lozovsky) Gang Gang Dance, who signed to 4AD earlier this year, are expected to release the follow-up to 2008's Saint Dymphna later this year. Their new label will be including them on a limited 12-inch Record Store Day EP, titled Fragments From Work In Progress, which'll also feature contributi...
March 11, 2010 - Album sales for the week ending March 7. #1: Lady Antebellum, 126,000.
March 11, 2010 - If “Odessa” has you impatient for Caribou’s Swim, which is a perfectly rational position to assume, then jump in on Dan Snaith’s similarly liquid, techno-stroked reworking of “Eleanor Speaks” by Danish indie-psych outfit Oh No Ono. For fans of Caribou’s new Whitest Boy Alive dance moves: Oh No Ono – &...
March 11, 2010 - 8 pm: Magneta Lane @ Horseshoe Tavern (8:30) (with Amos the Transparent, Green Go, Great Bloomers, Arietta and Hollerado) Given Magneta Lane's proclivity to vanish without a trace for years at a time, if you have any interest in seeing them (and you really should, since their newest album, Gambling With God) you should grab your chances -- like th...
March 11, 2010 - L.A. quartet Wires in the Walls plant their flag on the same solitary stretch of Americana as bands such as Okkervil River and Magnolia Electric Co., coloring their winsome tunes with horns, accordion and euphonium. Frontman's Warren Sroka's fragile vocals remind me of a less clarion David LaBrel (whose tenor makes Olin and the Moon so remarkable).
March 11, 2010 - Darren Hoff was part of the beloved and now defunct Austin-based country juggernaut The Weary Boys. It's been nearly two years and a day job since the Wearies flamed out and Darren is the last one to surface with a new project. Better late than never, I say. When it came time for Darren to form a band he went back to where he started, calling upon...
March 11, 2010 - So. Here it is. The poster for the new Chris Morris film, Four Lions. This should be making you a little excited... and really, it should be making your cogs whir as surely the arrival of this artwork means that an official trailer ain't too far away?The film has had great reviews from those who have seen it and... well... we've no idea what's ho...
March 11, 2010 - Maybe the eternal summer sunshine in Norway is the reason Oslo's Serena-Maneesh sound like they do — suffering from “persistent and pervasive elevated or irritable mood,” stumbling into the blessed darkened sanctuary of a cave decked out as a recording studio, what other music could they make? Blurry sonic shock tactics, plowing the same spac...
March 11, 2010 - Manifest Equality was upon us last week as we all celebrated what it should be like to have equal rights. BeatCrave was lucky enough to attend one of the event's shows on Saturday night where bands such as Sea Wolf and Issac Brock of Modest Mouse rocked the house. Although the “house” was literally an old space of Big Lots, Manifest Equality di...
March 11, 2010 - We knew the Strokes were working on their new LP, but it looks like plans are firming up: Julian Casablancas says his band will headline Lollapalooza in August, and will have the new LP out in September. Their fourth album will be out nine years after This Is It. As Casablancas points out in a [...]...
March 11, 2010 - Exciting news! After the sold out out show at Spaceland in Los Angeles during GRAMMY Week, my Superfraiche Pop Night will return to New York City on March 26. Featured performers are Reni Lane, Beautiful Small Machines and Outputmessage. It will be an exciting night of sweet and crunchy pop, running the gamut between hooky pop rock to sleek synth-p...
March 11, 2010 - The National debuted “Terrible Love,” the lead track off their highly anticipated Boxer follow-up, High Violet last night on Late Night with Jimmy Fallon. The audio doesn't sound too great on regular computer speakers, so I suggest you pop in the headphones. High Violet is out May 11th on 4AD. Are you ready? Tags: The National The...
March 11, 2010 - There’s a new Sugar in town: FAQ Redux Q. What sort of advice column is this? A: If you took all the by-the-book common sense of Dear Abby and the earnest spiritual cheesiness of Cary Tennis and the butt-pluggy irreverence of Dan Savage and the closeted Upper Eastside nymphomania of Miss Manners and crushed them down into a single diamond-hard g...
March 11, 2010 - Anyone following the fall-out over Charles Pellegrino's Last Train From Hiroshima—here's the definitive New York Times story—would do well to read Philip Meyer's “Accountability When Books Make News,” first published in the Media Studies Journal in 1997. (You can read it right here.) A terse tour de force, Meyer's essay starts by outlini...
March 11, 2010 - Neil Fridd is the leader of art-music ensemble The Terror Pigeon Dance Revolt! The band was formed a little more than a year ago. It grew out of a 20-song rock opera Fridd performed at SUNY’s Neuberger Museum of Art in November 2007. TPDR! just released a terrific 10-song album, Have the Best Day of Your Life!, for David Byrne’s Luaka Bop i...
March 11, 2010 - I've bumped into a few people of notoriety in my life… I once lifted free weights in a Denver health club next to Tommy Chong (the dude was cut!)… I was at a Mookie Blaylock show at the Off Ramp where Matt Dillon was hanging out, doing research for Singles… when I was 13 I got on stage at the Everett Mall and aerobicized with an 1980s exercis...
March 11, 2010 - Dangerbird Records continues to add muscle to its roster — today the L.A.-based label announced the signing of Canadian indie-rockers Hot Hot Heat. The quartet's fourth album “Future Breeds” — a return to the delirious spazz-pop of early in its career — will be released this summer. Their two major-label albums for Warner Bros. in 2005 an...
March 11, 2010 - An absolutely absurd new video by Yeasayer for the track "O.N.E." from the band's sophomore release "Odd Blood".
March 11, 2010 - Listen to this new jj bonus track, “I Know”, which can only be found on the jj nº 3 LP (via). You can buy jj nº 3 here. Tags: jj This Week's Touring News (4) Super Cool MP3 Grab Bag #9 (7) Pretty Much Amazing's Best Albums of 2009 (207) PMA's Favorite Covers of 2009 (14)...
March 11, 2010 - by Benjamin Lozovsky Broken Bells, the new collaboration between producer extraordinaire Danger Mouse and Shins leader James Mercer, did everything that was expected of them Wednesday (3/10) at Music Hall of Williamsburg. A roundly good thing, unless like most live music fans, you come to a performance expecting the unexpected. For Mercer and B...
March 11, 2010 - You could probably write a doctoral dissertation on British pop music in the first half of the 1980s — in fact, I'm sure many people have. There were so many groups forming, breaking up, fracturing, starting new groups, innovating, influencing, ripping off and inspiring each other, it practically requires an advanced degree to even begin to sort...
March 11, 2010 - “Now, there's no question that an e-book evolution will happen. In twenty years I expect to see people reading on electronic devices half the time, and on print formats the other half. But that barely counts as radical change.” Levi Asher, who is a “big advocate of e-books and digital publishing,” is skeptical of those who are predicting an...
March 11, 2010 - Kanye West's latest protege, Kid Cudi, has made a name for himself over the past year and for someone who runs in West's circle of friends, he seems pretty chill. We liked him even more when he teamed up with electronic rock duo Ratatat and Brooklyn hipster duo, MGMT for the song, “Pursuit of Happiness.” However, the video for the song was lack...
March 11, 2010 - Without knowing anything about Syracuse Me except that they’ve got a ridiculous name, I can tell you that their EP Out With The Old, In With The Dudes sounds exactly like you imagined it would; music made by testosterone-filled teenage boys. Even so, let me just state that it actually a somewhat entertaining listen. [...] Related posts:North L...
March 11, 2010 - Attention everyone, you've gotta check out the latest edition of the Rocket Fuel Podcast! Jeff interviews Tim from the Mighty Mighty Bosstones and plays (as always) a shitload of great songs. Plus he's giving away some killer Paper + Plastick merch from Spanish Gamble and We Are The Union. The contest runs [...] Related posts:Review: Mighty Mi...
March 11, 2010 - It was two Fridays ago when the Mrs. and I headed downtown to catch Rocky Votolato and Josh Caterer (of the Smoking Popes) live at Schubas. It was simply amazing. Josh opened and I felt like I was one of the only people singing along to every single word. It kinda sucked [...] Related posts:Review: Rocky Votolato – The Brag & Cuss (or) keep...
March 11, 2010 - My baby is teething like crazy and sick so I've been back and forth between finishing this post and running upstairs to calm her down when she starts crying. What a day… MP3 from the 1996 album Suburban Teenage Wasteland Blues from the 2000 album Travels With My Amp [...] Related posts:Pop Punk Junk Vol. 8 Pop Punk Junk Vol. 7 Pop Punk...
March 11, 2010 - Rumspringer is a band from Tempe, Arizona who sounds like they could be from anywhere but there. I love this EP. Their brand of good old fashioned pop punk is as awesome as it is imperfect. Their Rumspringer EP is simply amazing and needs to heard. The vocals are scratchy without [...] Related posts:Like Bats – Demo EP No Harm Done – Esca...
March 11, 2010 - Wow! Has it really been over two months since I've posted on of these? I guess it has… I won't make that mistake again. Another thing I don't think I ever mentioned is that when I was in Allister, we played with the Wunder Years in (I think) Colorado Springs to about six people, [...] Related posts:Pop Punk Junk Vol. 10 Pop Punk Junk Vol. 6 Pop...
March 11, 2010 - Yeah, so Native just released their debut full-length, Wrestling Moves on Sargent House, but this isn’t a review of that record. I could never be that “with it” or “in the know.” Nope. Instead, I offer you a review of their We Delete; Erase EP. It features six songs of skronking algebraic [...] Related posts:Review: The North Atlanti...
March 11, 2010 - Every once in awhile I'm completely surprised by this blog. I mean, things are never dull with two kids at home, but occasionally this blog just leaves me scratching my head. For example, I never thought that I would ever review a Hungarian rockabilly group, but, folks, that day has come. The [...] Related posts:A week of stormy weather Review...
March 11, 2010 - Wow! This is one of the best things I’ve heard in, well, forever… On their (now sold out) Life Moves 7”, RVIVR plays the kind of raw and scruffy basement shit-pop-punk that I grew up listening to and I can’t get enough of it. The fact that there are male and female [...] Related posts:Review: Shorebirds – Shorebirds 7″ Dear Landlor...
March 11, 2010 - I generally enjoy most of what Dave features on Related posts:Rehasher – High Speed Access To My Brain...
March 11, 2010 - Brooklyn's Here We Go Magic first plopped themselves onto my radar when I saw them open up for Grizzly Bear and continued to spur my interest with great tunes like “Tunnelvision”, “Fangela” and “Only Pieces”. This summer, Here We Go Magic will follow up last year's self-titled debut with Pigeons. “Collector” is the first sample of t...
March 11, 2010 - Though any band can tepidly mix rap, rock, reggae, ska and funk into an inoffensive and radio-friendly extant of ‘90s alt-pop, there is only one 311. And, as any 311 fan knows, March 11 (cause it’s 3/11, get it?) marks ‘311 Day.’ So to all the fans, Happy 311 Day!Beginning on March 11, 2000, when the Omaha, Nebraska band laid down a 46-...
March 11, 2010 - In the wake of NBC’s ritual sacrifice of Conan O’Brien, in a failed, desperate attempt to appease the sky gods and make Jay Leno remotely funny, the flame-haired ex-Tonight Show host is capitalizing on the near-universal good will and support generated by his fans and launching a two-month comedy tour of North America, according to The Wrap.Cal...
March 11, 2010 - by Chris La Putt DOWNLOAD: Laura Barrett - Bluebird (MP3) Last night (3/10) marked the first of the Magnetic Fields' 3-night run at Town Hall (they also played a show at BAM earlier in the tour) in New York City with over two dozen songs spanning the band's 20-year discography. It also marked the release of the band's ninth album, Realism, endi...
March 11, 2010 - The excitement thrumming hot in my veins as The National kicked off the first listen of the opening track on their forthcoming album High Violet was nearly overwhelming: Terrible Love (live on Fallon) – The National I'm also gobsmacked by the album art, which sort of reminds me of this image. High Violet is out May 11 on 4AD.
March 11, 2010 - Music video for M. Ward & Zooey Deschanel's "In The Sun" from their second full-length release "Volume Two."...
March 11, 2010 - All those who have spent the last couple of months muttering “Leno” under their breath with a mixture of disdain and disillusionment and fearing for the future of their favorite carrot-topped comedy king can rest easy with the notion that — while we imagine he’s surely got more TV plans for the future — Conan O’B...
March 11, 2010 - Maybe my too long absence from posting can be compensated by this total killer? Several different pressings shows up but this is the first press with the sticker still intact. The later pressings has... Punk | Powerpop | Mod | Hard Core...
March 11, 2010 - Slow Club, the U.K. duo gaining attention for its quavering folk-pop, makes its L.A. debut tonight at Spaceland. The band's debut album “Yeah So” is due March 30 on Moshi Moshi Records. … More beautiful folk at the Troubadour, where Dawes, Cory Chisel and the Wandering Sons and Jason Boesel perform. … It'll be considerably louder at the Ech...
March 11, 2010 - Do you like the Beach Boys? How about Grizzly Bear? Well, if you do, maybe you should check out The Morning Benders, from Berkeley, CA. After working hard since 2005, starting out as a twinkle in Chris Chu’s eye, the band released their first full-length LP, Big Echo, on March 9th with a release party at Cameo Gallery the night before. I got to...
March 11, 2010 - Quartet and pianist lack focus in Philadelphia Chamber Music Society concert.
March 11, 2010 - Zooey Deschanel is ridiculously adorable in this new video.
March 11, 2010 - All right, Pete Wentz. Time to get down on your knees and apologize for everything you did to sully the “emo” name, because the Saviors are returning: Sunny Day Real Estate start work on a new album in May. How did we find out? The way we figure out everything lately… Twitter. This afternoon, radio DJ Marco Williams of KEXP tweete...
