As a child growing up in Buffalo, NY, Christina Courtin started singing at an early age and at an early age, she knew that she was going to get involved in music. She later studied […]
Tag: indie rock
Originally hailing from St. Louis, Bear Ceuse’s lead singer Cameron Matthews moved to New York City with the dream that many artists have – of taking on the big city. Matthews enlisted the work of a […]
Canadian singer/songwriter Hayden has a reputation for creating music that comes from a deeply personal place – and it manages to be quite affecting. He just recently signed with famed Canadian label, Arts and Crafts […]
Brooklyn-led band San Fermin is led by Ellis Ludwig-Leone who once studied composition at Yale University, and through his work as the assistant to Nico Muhly has worked on arrangements of songs by Sufjan Stevens, […]
The Oats and Alyson Greenfield at Muchmore’s 9/29/12
Back at the end of September, my colleague and friend Amy Grimm at Whatever Blog, hosted a show at the Williamsburg cafe Muchmore’s. I only caught half of that show – I managed to catch […]
New York-based psych rock trio, Heaven are in the middle of a November residency at Piano’s, as they’re finishing up their full-length debut, which will drop sometime in 2013. “Mountains Move” is the band’s latest […]
Suicide Squeeze Records recently released The World Is Too Much With Us, the latest EP from Vancouver, BC-based band Peace. The band is finishing up a North American tour with fellow Vancouverites Nu Sensae, which included […]
https://scache.vevo.com/m/html/embed.html?video=USSM21201157&playerType=embedded Rolling Stone premiered the official video for Wild Belle’s latest single, “Keep You.” Directed by Melinda Matsoukas in Kingston, Jamaica, the video features the band’s lead singer Natalie Bergman as a caretaker for a rather […]
“Good Fortune,” is one of my favorite PJ Harvey songs, off one of my favorite PJ Harvey albums, Stories from the City, Stories from the Sea – part of what I love about the album is […]
Lady from Shanghai which Fire Records will be releasing in January 2013, marks two important milestones for the legendary Pere Ubu – it’s the first full-length album from the band, and 2013 marks the 35th […]
New York-based trio, Pearl and the Beard have received a ton of praise from the Wall Street Journal, NYLON and others, and once you hear their charming and unique blend of pop, folk and soul, you’ll see […]
My Radio started through a certain level serendipity – the serendipity that seems to behind the formation of most bands. While in Southwest Virginia, singer/songwriter JP Powell (formerly of Boston-area bands Chauncey, Bleu, and My […]
The laws that govern the conservation of energy and matter can be cruel, after all, everyone we all know has died, will die or is technically dying. And those very laws can often be ironic […]
The London-based Cold Specks (whose name comes from a line in James Joyce’s classic novel, Ulysses) will be embarking on their first headlining North American tour next week with a stop at Mercury Lounge on […]
“Genevieve,” is the latest single from New York-based band Lucius’s self-titled EP. Vocalists Holly Laessig and Jess Wolfe’s voices intertwine in harmony and play off each other in a way that’s reminiscent of sugary sweet, […]