I caught the extremely young, Los Angeles, CA-based trio of the Vim Dicta at a relatively early set at Piano’s on Monday night and I was impressed – they play with a confidence and assuredness […]
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Since their founding 2004, the Chicago, IL-based band Walking Bicycles will be releasing a 7" on July 30th – titled So/Badada, the material on the 7" will be a teaser for the band’s fourth full-length […]
The Preservation Hall Jazz Band recently celebrated the 50th anniversary of it’s founding and with that occasion, the current members were left to consider the sort of soul-searching questions that every institution should ask themselves. […]
The Leftover Cuties, a Los Angeles, CA-based quartet, will be releasing their sophomore effort The Spark and the Fire on July 23rd. Thanks in part to Shirli McAllen’s gorgeously silky voice, backed by a sound that employs the […]
The Texas singer/songwriter Teresa Maldonado, writes, records and performs under the moniker Georgia’s Horse. And as Georgia’s Horse, Maldonado’s debut effort The Mammoth Sessions was well-received critically across the blogosphere and other sources. Fire Records will be […]
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 […]
The NYC-based 17 member group Escort, which was founded by producers Eugene Cho and Daniel Balls, and fronted by the incredible vocals and stage presence of Adeline Michele have developed a reputation for a sound […]
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 […]
French DJ and producer Simon Delacroix writes, records and performs under the moniker the Toxic Avenger. Delacroix has developed a reputation for a sound that fuses club-ready, pulsing electronica with a pop sensibility – in […]
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 […]
House of Blondes‘ Clean Cuts was one of my favorite albums last year, as it landed in the top 5 of this site’s Best of 2012 list. And the album’s lead single, “Shadows” was one of my […]
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 […]
Although initially released through Stones Throw Records as a free giveaway, Mayer Hawthorne‘s Impressions: The Covers EP not onlyserved as a great introduction to Hawthorne’s smooth, retro-feel sound, it was also one of my favorite albums when […]