Feathers is an all-woman quartet based in Austin, TX-via Brooklyn and they’ll be releasing their debut full-length, If All Now Here on April 15th. And before they head off to SXSW and two NYC area gigs – […]
The California-by-way of Boston-based Colleen Green’s forthcoming album Sock It To Me will see a March 19th release through Seattle’s Hardly Art Records. “Heavy Shit” is the latest single from the album and personally, it reminds me […]
Last year, St. Lucia released two EPs, Closer Than This and September which wound up on this site’s Honorable Mention List for 2012. But perhaps more important for me (and perhaps for you as well, reader) is that St. […]
“Ballad of the War Machines” is the latest single from electronica trio, Midnight Juggernauts, and it’s probably the purest “pop” song the band’s released to date – once you hear it, it has elements of […]
Rondi Charleston at Joe’s Pub 2/28/13
Rondi Charleston Joe’s Pub 2/28/13 I’ve realized that I have my moments where I’m an old soul, and my heart longs for some great jazz so when I got an invite to catch Rondi Charleston […]
White Mystery’s Telepathic Tour
Last week, the great Chicago-based sibling duo White Mystery embarked on a massive cross country tour to support their forthcoming (and anticipated) album, Telepathic which will drop on April 20th. They’re great live and you can catch […]
Just before the official release of their much-anticipated full-length debut, Hands tomorrow, Superhuman Happiness and their label Royal Potato Family Records released the official video for the album’s first single, “See Me On My Way." The […]
The members of Detroit proto-punk band, Death, siblings Bobby and Dennis Hackley, and Bobby Duncan originally started out as a reggae band by the name of Rock Funk Fire Express – until they caught the legendary […]
Last year, the somewhat mysterious electronica duo, MS MR released an EP through Tumblr that really blew up across the blogosphere. Their debut full-length album is slated for a May release but perhaps as a […]
http://cdn.topspin.net/widgets/email2/swf/TSEmailMediaWidget.swf?timestamp=1362214440 Sub Pop Records artist Rose Windows can trace their origins to Fall 2010 when lead singer Chris Cheveyo found himself tiring of the limited sonic palette of his prior band. Although he was interested […]
Deep Sea Diver originally began as frontwoman Jennifer Dobson’s solo, songwriting vehicle when drummer and future husband Peter Mansen, and bassist John Raines joined her in 2009. After the release of the band’s debut EP, […]
Mike Dillon Band and Fishbone at Brooklyn Bowl 2/24/13
Mike Dillon Band and Fishbone Brooklyn Bowl February 24, 2013 Last week, I was at one of my favorite venues in town, Brooklyn Bowl to catch the Mike Dillon Band and the legendary Fishbone. Of […]
The Brooklyn-by-way-of San Francisco, CA-based Jesse Reiner performs under the moniker of Jonas Reinhardt with a series of bi-coastal collaborators. Since the project’s beginnings in the early 2000s, Reiner’s sound has managed to fuse elements […]
a Q&A with Grave Babies’ Danny Wahlfeldt
Back in 2011, Grave Babies released the Pleasures 7" and with it’s densely layered, murky, dissonant and punishingly loud sound was one of the most interesting albums I had come across that year. In fact, it landed […]
http://cdn.topspin.net/widgets/email2/swf/TSEmailMediaWidget.swf?timestamp=1362004231 Over the last couple of years, Denton, TX has developed a reputation for being a hotbed of some really interesting and at times strange music, including Sub Pop Records’ own, the Baptist Generals. The […]