VPI Harmony is the debut effort from the Atlanta, GA-based quintet Mood Rings. And the album bears a similarity to Cut Copy’s incredible In Ghost Colours in the fact that it reveals a band with a sound that’s […]
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The trio of Blue and Gold consists of Chloe Raynes (vocals, guitar); GG Gonzalez (drums); and Alex Kapelman (vocals, guitar), and the band has received a little bit of love through the blogosphere, including here, […]
Last month marked the domestic release of Shelly Bhushan’s latest full-length effort, Something Out of Nothing (the album saw a much larger release this past month), and the album reveals an artist who has grown remarkably over […]
I caught the Los Angeles, CA-based trio the Vim Dicta at Piano’s on Monday night, and from this live footage that I shot, their sound owes a debt to Soundgarden, Led Zeppelin and the like […]
Dent May, a Mississippi-based singer/songwriter and multi-instrumentalist will have his third full-length effort, Warm Blanket released through Paw Tracks on August 27th. Although May had recorded most of the album’s instruments by himself, he enlisted some local […]
http://bandcamp.com/EmbeddedPlayer/track=2503482070/size=medium/bgcol=ffffff/linkcol=0687f5/transparent=true/ Formerly known as Daniel G. Harmann and the Trouble Starts, the Trouble Starts will be releasing their latest and forthcoming effort East on August 13th. “Glaciers,” the first single off the new effort, is a great […]
Glass Animals released their debut EP Leaflings last year, and the band spent the past year writing and recording material for a full-length debut in a make-shift studio in the Oxfordshire forest. Reportedly, the isolation of the […]
The Mynabirds’ Laura Burhemn spent a year touring with the rest of the band to support their latest effort, GENERALS and she’ll be joining the Postal Service’s touring band this year. Shortly before she joined the Postal […]
With the end of a long-term relationship, there’s obviously quite a deal of heartache but in many ways ghosts almost always manage to linger. Certainly, singer/songwriter Alela Diane can attest to this, as her latest […]
Critical Heights Records will be releasing Virginia Wing’s “Red Sails” single on July 2nd. “Creation” is the B-side of the single, and with it’s jangling guitars drenched in reverb, the track sounds as though it […]
Hardly Art Records will be releasing the Portland, OR-based quartet Hausu’s debut full-length, Total next week. “Chrysanthemum” is the latest single from the album and it reminds me so much of the type of stuff I’d come […]
Led by Greer McGettrick, the now-defunct Bay Area-based band the Mallard had quickly developed a reputation for defying expectations in their short history together – and in many ways, they did so with a sneering […]
The London-UK based singer/songwriter James Mathé writes, records and performs under the moniker Barbarossa. With the release of his 2008 debut, Chemical Campfires helped him earn the reputation as one of the UK’s most exciting, new troubadours. In […]
56K, Olivia Mancini, and Morningbell at Union Hall 6/7/13
56K, Olivia Mancini and Morningbell Union Hall June 7, 2013 The weather Friday was frankly awful – a torrential and mostly windswept rain had soaked the city, turning street corners into gigantic pools in the […]
The Seattle, WA-based band Pickwick will be on an extensive tour, opening for Black Joe Lewis (he’s pretty good live) and Neko Case over the course of the fall, to support their debut effort, Can’t Talk […]