Dead Leaf Echo released their full-length debut effort, Thought and Language earlier in the spring. And for a debut, the album is a concept album which details the life of a child from conception, birth, and until […]
Tag: Mercury Lounge
Brooklyn-based quartet Hints is a band that specializes in a sound that should sound familiar – with it’s shimmering guitars, upbeat tempo and deceptively somber lyrics, and heart on it’s sleeve sincerity, it’s extremely reminiscent […]
Kamara Thomas and the Ghost Gamblers and Gangstagrass at Mercury Lounge 3/30/13
Kamara Thomas and the Ghost Gamblers and Gangstagrass Mercury Lounge March 30, 2013 A couple of weeks ago I managed to be at the Mercury Lounge for the early set, Kamara Thomas and the Ghost […]
Desert Noises and Hollis Brown at Mercury Lounge 3/30/13
Desert Noises and Hollis Brown Mercury Lounge March 30, 2013 The weekend after my birthday was pretty crazy as I wound up attending and covering 6 shows in 4 days – with two of those […]
The Oxford, UK-based Hugo Manuel writes, records and performs under the moniker Chad Valley. He’s also a member of the Jonquil and the Blessing Force collective but as a solo artist, he’s been burning up […]
Tall Ships and Highasakite at Mercury Lounge 3/20/13
Tall Ships and Highasakite Mercury Lounge March 20, 2013 Last week, i was at the Mercury Lounge for the early show which featured British quartet Tall Ships and the Norwegian quintet Highasakite, making their Stateside […]
The Los Angeles-based band, the Lonely WIld’s 2011 release, Dead End landed at number 19 on this site’s Best of 2011 list. And for those fans, critics and others who had fallen in love with their sound […]
Untitled 3/20/13
As some of you readers will know, I spent every day over the course of a year and a half shooting anything and everything for the Black and White Project. And it was a bit […]
Oxford, Mississippi’s Young Buffalo has gotten a lot of love from fellow critics and bloggers, and after you check out the video for “Baby Demons,” you’ll probably see why – it has a super upbeat, […]
The Brooklyn-based act Gangstagrass deftly mixes old fashioned bluegrass with hip hop – and it works. in some way, it’ll be reminiscent of Everlast’s incredible Whitey Ford Sings the Blues, Bubba Sparxxx and others. Although, the band […]
RIBS, Honeywild and the Growl at Mercury Lounge 3/14/13
RIBS, Honeywild and the Growl Mercury Lounge March 14, 2013 Last Thursday, I was at the Mercury Lounge, specifically to catch the Perth Australia-based band, the Growl based primarily on the strength of their “Liarbird” […]
Untitled 3/14/13
I had been stuck at work a bit later than what I had intended and I still didn’t finish up everything i wanted or needed to finish. But i walked out of the office and […]
Norwegian quintet Highasakite has gotten quite a bit of love from publications such as Pitchfork, NME, Paste and even MTV. The band recently released their latest EP in and out of weeks and they’re making their Stateside debut […]
After the release of the critically well-received release, Wildernerss, singer/songwriter Josh Mease began recording a new batch of songs in 2011 within the solitude of his bedroom studio set up. And much like his previous release, he […]
Lorelei and Dead Leaf Echo at Mercury Lounge 2/27/13
Back at the end of February I caught shoegazer rock outfits Lorelei and Dead Leaf Echo at the Mercury Lounge – Lorelei specialized in a slightly more muscular, garage/DIY sort of of shoegazer rock with […]