Together as a band for a little over a year, the Galway, Ireland-based band Dott quickly won a great deal of attention across both the UK and the States. A number of their songs have received regular radio play […]
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Right after his return from a trip to West Africa to visit his wife, who was in the Peace Corps at the time, Chris Anderson (lead vocals, guitar) had a bunch of songs he wanted […]
Gregory Ferreira has started playing professionally at 9 and has been in several bands in his native Boston, including the Chainletter, a band which was nominated for a Boston Music Award. In 2006, Ferreira moved […]
Originally founded in Denton, TX, the members of Horse Thief moved to Oklahoma City to attend the Academy of Contemporary Music at the University of Central Oklahoma. Upon their graduation, the band wound up signing up with the Flaming Lips management company, and shortly […]
Recorded over a 15 month period in the Horrors’ East London studio/laboratory/bunker with co-producer, Craig Silvey, who has worked with the likes of the Yeah Yeah Yeahs, Arcade Fire and the National, Luminous is the much-anticiapted and […]
Let’s Be Still, the sophomore full-length effort from the Head and the Heart, debuted on Billboard’s Top 10 List and was number 1 on the Independent Label release list after it had sold some 43,000 copies in the first week of […]
Now known as international stars and critical darlings, indie electro pop/indie rock act Cut Copy started out from humble beginnings – as the solo creative project of Melbourne, Australia-based DJ and graphic designer Dan Whitford in 2001. By […]
Alan Wilkis is the mastermind behind Big Data. and his first later single “Dangerous” featuring Joywaye is an incredibly funky and slickly produced bit of electro pop that’s perfect for the dance floor – and […]
Released two years ago, Cody ChesnuTT‘s Landing on a Hundred was one of my favorite albums as it was the first co-number 1 on this site’s Best of 2012 List, and among a list of my favorite […]
https://scache.vevo.com/m/html/embed.html?video=USUYG1041298&playerType=embedded Waajeed, a founding member of the famed Detroit-based act Slum Village met Dede Reynolds and Tim K, who were working together in a duo called Dede, in a bar beneath the J train in […]
I caught the Brooklyn-based trio Sharkmuffin during a hot summer night at Fort Useless, and was impressive by their energy – at one point, their lead vocalist was standing on her amplifier and wandering around […]
Starting his career in the 1990s dance music scene in Washington, DC, Thomas Blondet has developed a reputation for blurring genre lines by infusing just about any beat and funk oriented genre known to man including deep house, […]
https://myspace.com/play/video/thundercat-evangelion-we-ll-die-109499274-112170973 Thundercat “Evangelion / We’ll Die” from Thundercat on Myspace. Over the years, there have been a long line of incredible electric bass virtuosos, who can walk the tightrope of playing with a propulsive, throbbing […]
Early last year, I had interviewed Morgan Christopher Geer who writes and records under the moniker of Drunken Prayer about his fantastic 2012 release Into the Missionfield and other subjects. And for me, it was among a batch of favorite interviews […]
The duo of Isle of Rhodes — Rob Farren (vocals, keys) and Colin Behram (drums) — have received quite a bit of attention after the release of the first single off their forthcoming EP, Affirmation Caravan, “Islands”; in […]