Pony Trash is a new shoegaze/psychedelica act that features members of the Chambermaids, Gospel Gossip and Polica, a sort of up-and-coming indie rock All Star band. Written and recorded at Neil Weir’s legendary Old Blackberry […]
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The Portland, Oregon-based Wooden Indian Burial Ground has publicly claimed their influences to be early sci-fi novels. fuzzy 60s garage rock, fuzz boxes and homemade drone boxes. “Sparklerella,” is the first single off their self-titled […]
Born and raised in New Zealand and now based in New Yorker, singer/songwriter Simon Spire’s work has been critically praised by PopMatters, Performer Magazine, MTV.com, mtvU and across the blogosphere. His latest album, Four-Letter Words has been critically applauded […]
The Confluence EP may be an apt name for maticulous’s latest EP recently released by Fat Beats Records. You see, the Brooklyn-based producer is originally from Pittsburgh, PA – and if you know your geography, you […]
Kinder Machines is the third full-length album from Beaten By Them, a band who has members residing in San Francisco, NYC, and Melbourne, Australia. Formed in 2005, the band has quietly developed a reputation for creating […]
Cody ChesnuTT will be releasing his first full-length effort in about ten years with Landing On a Hundred on October 30th. NPR’s All Songs Considered recently premiered the first single from ChesnuTT’s new album, the soulful hymn […]
Album Review: BNLX’s BNLX #7 EP
BNLX BNLX #7 Susstones Records Release Date: August 28, 2012 Track Listing See What I See Meet Me on the Barricades Round the Dial Video Games See What I See (clean) Personnel “Organic Members” Ed […]
Unnatural Helpers – Medication from Hardly Art on Vimeo. Unnatural Helpers’ latest full-length effort Land Grab was released by Hardly Art Records on Tuesday, and to celebrate the occasion, the band released the music video […]
The UK-based producer Mike Norris, a.k.a. Fort Romeau reworked the Presets’ “Ghosts.” Whereas the original version brought the sea shanty to modern ears by making it a sort of slow burning electronica, the remix turns […]
Brooklyn-based band Beast Patrol just released this David Lynch-inspired video for “Plaster,” the first single off the band’s full length debut, Fierce & Grateful. Once you hear the track you’ll hear some familiar pop elements with […]
“Birds,” is the latest single off Poor Moon’s self-titled Sub Pop Records release, and it’s a pretty song reminiscent of 70s AM radio soft rock – but with a slightly modern twist. The band’s touring […]
Deer Creek Canyon is Sera Cahoone’s third full-length Sub Pop Records release, and “Naked” is the lead single from that effort. The video that accompanies the pretty and at times mournful track, has Cahoone hiding parts […]
Los Angeles-based band, the Lonely Wild just recently played their 100th show as a band, and it turned out that it also marked the last night of their residency at the Satellite. As they were […]
With the official release of their 4 CD box set, The Preservation Hall 50th Anniversary Collection from Legacy Records and their live recording from Carnegie Hall, St. Peter and 57th, the folks in the Preservation Jazz Hall Band […]
Album Review: My Jerusalem’s Preachers
My Jerusalem Preachers The End Records Release Date: October 9, 2012 Track Listing Preachers Shatter Together Born in the Belly Mono This Time Death Valley Devoe Between Space Oh Little Sister Chameleon I Left My […]