The Chicago-based My Gold Mask is the collaboration between Gretta Rochelle and guitarist Jack Armondo. Their full-length debut, Leave Me Midnight is slated for an early 2013 release. Their music is informed by cinema – in particular […]
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http://cdn.topspin.net/widgets/email2/swf/TSEmailMediaWidget.swf?timestamp=1354493804 The Duluth, MN-based band Low will be coming out with their 10th album on Sub Pop Records titled, The Invisible Way, and it’ll drop on March 13, 2013 here in the states. Wilco’s Jeff Tweedy […]
Album Review: Husky’s Forever So
Husky Forever So Sub Pop Records Release Date: July 10, 2012 (digital), October 21, 2012 (CD) Track Listing 1. Tidal Wave 2. Fake Moustache 3. History’s Door 4. The Woods 5. Hunter 6. Dark […]
Dave Keily and Daniel Holderer formed the Muscle Shoals, AL-based Blind the Sky back in 2007, and although the band went through a couple of lineup changes until Mike Hollander joined the band in 2010, […]
The other night, I was in Smithfield hanging out with a friend who bartends there when I heard George Michael’s “Freedom 90,” which is one of my favorite George Michael tracks. I’ve had it in […]
NME recently named the Horrors latest album, Skying as their top album of 2012 and that’s not some unforeseen surprise to me. Check out the video for the band’s latest single, “Changing the Rain.” You’ll feel as […]
Dutch multi-instrumentalist Jacco Gardner will be releasing his much anticipated full length debut, Cabinet of Curiosities through Trouble in Mind Records on February 12th. “The Ballad of Little Jane” is the first single from the album, and […]
Split Screens is the solo project of multi-instrumentalist Jesse Calfiero. Influenced by Pink Floyd and Beck’s Sea Change, his self-titled, debut EP is reportedly sort of a love letter to both coasts and to muses left behind, […]
Mark Ronson was at behind the 1s and 2s for the kickoff party to celebrate the grand opening of the W Hotel in Singapore. Ronson invited Brooklyn electronic dance music act, AVAN LAVA to join […]
It is an ingrained belief that people generally behave rationally. So when a person does some unspeakable and incomprehensible act, there’s an assumption that they must not be rational; that in order to commit such […]
Simon Spire at Plan A Media PR 11/15/12
Plan A Media PR, a New York-based PR firm who works with artists as Bebe Winans, Rondi Charleston, Mary Mary, and Bob Seeger recently invited some local members of the media and bloggers for what […]
After releasing four critically acclaimed albums and a dozen well-received singles in her native Sweden, singer/songwriter Elin Ruth picked up and moved to the States last year. And in some way, her move across the […]
Stoner rock band, Linus Pauling Quartet have been around for twenty years, and in an age of incredibly fickle music industry such longevity is an increasingly rare thing. To celebrate the occasion, the band is […]
As you can imagine, as a blogger I frequently get inundated with emails from PR firms, labels and bands and there’s admittedly a wild variety of the good, the bad, the mediocre, and the absolutely […]
Nashville’s indie rock scene is getting quite a bit of buzz lately as several bands from the area have been getting a lot of attention – think Majestico, JEFF the Brotherhood and several others. Western […]