Although they’ve received attention both in their native Minneapolis, MN and nationally over the past year, the quartet Carroll, can trace their origins to when Brian Harlow (vocals) began writing melancholy, shoegaze-based pop songs that caught the […]
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Comprised of Jesse Tabish (piano, guitar, lead vocals) Jonathon Mooney (piano,violin, guitar, percussion, trumpet) Josh Onstott (bass, keys, percussion, guitar, backing vocals), the Stillwater, OK-based trio Other Lives initially formed back in 2004, recording and releasing […]
Comprised of Alan Croft (vocals), Austin Logan (guitar), Paul Jones (bass), Steven Taylor (guitar) and Gareth Dawson (drums), the Liverpool-based quintet Cavalry have quickly caught the attention of major tastemakers such as BBC Radio 1′s […]
Pfarmers is a trio comprised of Danny Seim (a member of Menomena and of Lacktherof), Bryan Devendorf (The National) and Dave Nelson (a member of the David Byrne and St. Vincent touring band and Sufjan […]
Comprised of Scott Goldbaum (vocals, guitar), Mike Musselman (drums), Molly Rogers (viola, keyboards, vocals), and Nick Chamian (bass, vocals), the Los Angeles, CA-based quartet of Forebear may arguably be one of that city’s most accomplished […]
The Chicago, IL-based quartet of ZKPR pronounced as Zookeeper, after a joke about how the comparisons of their band’s sound was almost entirely based around bands with animals within their name – Deerhunter, Grizzly Bear, […]
The Minneapolis, MN-based quartet of Carroll was formed towards the end of 2011 when songwriter and vocalist Brian Hurlow started writing melancholic, shoegazer-based pop songs that caught the attention (and ear, of course) of his […]
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 […]
While in France, singer/songwriter Jay Chakravorty met a Mexican woman who used to playfully call him Cajita, which translates into English as “little box,” thanks to the fact that she claimed that every time she […]
Luminous, the Horrors’ much-anticipiated and long-awaited follow up to their critically applauded 2011 release, Skying was recorded over a 15 month period in the band’s East London studio/laboratory/bunker with co-producer Craig Silvey, who has worked with the […]
While in France, singer/songwriter Jay Chakravorty met a Mexican woman who used to playfully call him Cajita, which translates into English as “little box,” thanks to the fact that she claimed that every time she […]
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 […]
The Copenhagen, Denmark-based duo of Mads Damsgaard Kristiansen and Esben Valloe formed Reptile Youth back in 2009. And their 2012 self-titled debut was released to world-wide critical praise with publications like Spin and Nylon comparing the band to […]
Trouble Will Find Me, the sixth and latest full-length effort from Brooklyn based quintet the National was released back in May to critical praise among major publications and the blogosphere, and to commercial success, as […]
When the Dublin, Ireland-based band Bell X1, went into the recording sessions for their sixth full-length effort Chop Chop, the band and their production team which includes the National’s long-time producer Peter Katis and Thomas Barlett […]