Warring, is the Darcys third and final installation in a trilogy released by the renowned Canadian indie rock label, Arts and Crafts Records this weekend. Whereas the first single off the album “The River” has elements of soul in the […]
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Last week marked the release of the UK-based trio London Grammar’s highly anticipated effort, If You Wait through a little label by the name of Columbia Records. Upon its release, the album landed on number 2 on […]
Originally going by the name SomethingALaMode, the Parisian duo elctronica duo now known as SALM have developed a reputation in their native France for high octane, stylized house music that’s reminiscent of the Prodigy, Boys […]
Singer/songwriter Kris Gruen has grown up surrounded by music, as his father Bob Gruen is the renowned rock photographer. As a singer/songwriter, he’s developed his own reputation for writing lyrics that are thought-provoking, slyly ironic […]
The Boston, MA-based reggae group 10 Ft. Gangja Plant has been known to be somewhat elusive, and yet last year was a pretty big year for the band. They released a critically well-received album of […]
Sandra Vu has played drums for the likes of the Raveonettes, Boredoms, Dirty Beaches and the Dum Dum Girls but with her side project, SISU, Vu steps out from the drum set to be a frontperson. This Tuesday will mark SISU’s full-length […]
https://scache.vevo.com/m/html/embed.html?video=USSM21302017&playerType=embedded Last year may have been the start of a rather big year for the Chicago, IL-based sibling duo of Natalie and Eliot Bergman, a.k.a. Wild Belle, as the pair had won the attention of […]
After a two week vacation in the Dominican Republic with his family, Twin Shadow decided to move his home studio to a cemetery – not just any cemetery but the extra creepy Hollywood Forever Cemetery […]
Phedre is the side project of Hooded Fang’s frontman Daniel Lee and bassist April Aliermo, along with guest contributions from a ton of their fellow musician friends. Interestingly, the band which got its start over […]
If you came of age in the early 1990s, you’d likely remember Mazzy Star’s gorgeously moody and haunting major single, “Fade into You” which was on their sophomore effort, So Tonight I Might See – […]
Bed & Bugs which Sub Pop Records released yesterday is the Brooklyn-based quartet Obits’ third full-length release. “Spun Out,” is the first single from the new effort, and it’s an intense, fidgety bit of anthemic garage rock — with […]
Despite the waning attention it receives from most of the blogosphere, and contrary to popular belief, jazz is very much a living, vital genre whose artists naturally pay homage to it’s past and legendary artists while […]
One September 11th, a few years ago, I had come home from work or running errands and my father was playing John Coltrane‘s A Love Supreme on the stereo while cooking in the kitchen, and although our […]
in Ghost Colours, Cut Copy’s second album may well be one of my favorite albums of the past decade as it deftly mixes psychedelica, slickly produced synth pop and indie rock in a way that feels […]
Here in New York, today is a major election day – it’s the primaries for several important citywide offices for both parties. And it seems the general sense among New Yorkers is that all of […]