Co-produced by Richard Gottherer, who is best known for his work with Blondie. the Go-Go’s and Richard Hell and the Raveonettes’ Sune Rose Wagner, Too True, Dum Dum Girls’ which was released earlier this year is a decided change in sonic direction for the […]
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in interviews, the Pennsylvania-based electronic artist and producer Tobacco has mentioned that with his forthcoming effort, Ultima 2 Massage that he wanted to push his sound to the point where even at it’s most depraved you can still zone […]
The xx can trace their origins to when Romy Madley-Croft and Oliver Sim, the two founding members of the band met at the Elliott School, a school best known for a number of famous alumni […]
The members of the Buffalo, NY-based band Made Violent, Joe White (bass), Justin Acee (drums) and Rob Romano (guitar) have played together for quite some time. And the band has quickly won the attention of the blogosphere for a […]
After the release of the Chicago, IL-based psych rock band Secret Colours heir debut self-titled effort and their sophomore effort, Peach, the band went through a massive reshuffling of their lineup within a relatively short period of time that […]
While I was covering John Brown’s Body and the Easy Star All Stars at Brooklyn Bowl, I received an email from an Argentine reggae musician, producer and promotor, who recently released a three album reggae […]
The Brooklyn-based duo of Denitia and Sene have been praised here and across the blogosphere for a sound that effortlessly meshes elements of electronica, hip hop, R&B and soul, and in many ways it sounds comfortably familiar, […]
Les Big Byrd was formed in Stockholm, Sweden a few years ago by Joakim Ahlund and Frans Johansson. Ahlund was raised by an immigrant mother in Bagarmossen, a rough and tumble suburb of Stockholm, while […]
There are certain events of our lives that can seem to us as though they were preordained by a higher power and not by the randomness chance that pervades most other aspects of our lives. […]
Okay, so I think that the Glasgow, Scotland, UK-based trio, the Amazing Snakeheads may well be one the best new bands this year in my opinion as the band’s forthcoming album Amphetamine Ballads is the soundtrack to the […]
Last year, the Canadian quartet, the Darcys released Warring, the third album of a related trilogy, and the album gained quite a bit of attention across the blogosphere for it’s heady meshing of art rock, indie […]
When the Brooklyn based duo of Mia Wilson and Quincy Ledbetter, better known as the Bright Smoke released their debut effort Late for War, they were praised for crafting a sound that deftly meshed a bluesy and moody […]
Named after a beloved Nigerian funk album, the members of the Brooklyn-based septet Ikebe Shakedown features members of the touring bands for the likes of the incredible Sharon Jones and the Dap Kings, the larger-than-life Charles Bradley, Lee Fields, and […]
NRBQ can trace their roots back to January 1966 when pianist (and now lone founding member) Terry Adams started the band from his Louisville, KY home. Adams met guitarist Steve Ferguson when they were still […]
As I’ve mentioned about 1,000 times before, lately I’ve been receiving an enormous amount of emails from bands and labels from across the US, Canada, UK, Australia New Zealand and other far-flung places across our […]