Sadly, the majority of Westerners don’t know about music scenes outside of the usual locations – the US, the UK, Australia, France, Germany and the like. However, the Away Days are an Istanbul, Turkey-based quartet […]
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Max Decker formed Papertwin in 2009. instead of pursuing a lucrative career as a landscape painter. And after two EPs that received a bit of attention across the blogosphere, the band will be releasing their […]
Although A Million Billion Dying Suns is a relatively new band that formed within the last year or so, frontman Nate Mercereau and his bandmates have backed the likes of Richard Ashcroft, Lauryn Hill and the legendary Chaka Khan. The band will […]
The Montreal, QC-based Rishi Dihr and his band Elephant Stone released their self-titled, sophomore effort through Hidden Pony Records last year, and the album deftly used elements of traditional Eastern songwriting and instrumentation with Western songwriting and instrumentation to create […]
As a New Yorker, it can be quite common to conveniently forget that other cities across the country have vital music scenes. Granted, they may not exactly compare to New York as far as actual […]
http://bandcamp.com/EmbeddedPlayer/track=3877283800/size=large/bgcol=ffffff/linkcol=0687f5/tracklist=false/artwork=small/transparent=true/ Over the last two decades, the Richmond, VA-based salsa act Bio Ritmo have developed a reputation for experimentation and stubbornly refusing to be pigeonholed, as they’ve employed the use of synths, along with traditional salsa […]
The Chicago-based duo of Greta Rochelle and Jack Armando formed My Gold Mask around their mutual love of Italian Giallo cinema, mystery movies, and the dimly-lit warehouse district of their hometown where their rehearsal space is located. Their 2009 self-titled, […]
The Athens, GA-based band Dream Boat is a collaboration between Dan Donahue and Page Campbell, two notable artists in Athens’ psychedelic scene, as well as two Aquarians, who coincidentally share the same birthday. And with the release of the […]
The legendary Depeche Mode released their 13th full-length album, Delta Machine last March, and the album was the last of a trilogy of albums produced by Ben Hiller. The album was also considered one of the band’s […]
Seattle, WA-based singer and songwriter Justin Vallestros writes, records and performs under the moniker of Craft Spells, and the folks at Captured Tracks will be releasing his much-awaited sophomore effort, Nausea, which is the follow up […]
The Queens, NYC-based Panopoulos brothers, Teddy (vocals) and Nick (guitar and vocals) have spent about a decade playing in a number of bands in the city’s underground scene. But almost two years ago, the Panopoulos […]
The Madrid-based trio the Parrots quickly became something of an underground sensation in their hometown, thanks to the release of a demo, which was quietly released without much promotion and with little fanfare; in fact, the official video […]
When the National released High Violet a few years back, it was an album that spoke very deeply to me about the compromises, decisions and dashed hopes of being an adult. Of course, to be fair, i’m […]
Patrick Clos (guitar, vocals) was in several San Francisco,CA-based bands and played around with bedroom recordings until 2011 when he decided to start his own band, Cocktails. Lauren Matsui (guitar, synth, vocals), Phil Lantz (drums) […]
Over the last few years, Louisville, KY has quickly developed a reputation for being the home to one of the country’s burgeoning music scene, complete with a rather eclectic collection of acts — including White Reaper, a trio of Tony […]