The now-London-based quartet Splashh got their start when the New Zealand-born Sasha Carlson (vocals and guitar) and the Australian-born Toto Vivian (guitar, keyboards and backing vocals) met while on vacation. The duo bounded over their […]
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Danish trio Kissaway Trail released their latest EP, Life Is A B-Side through Yep Roc Records, and it kind of serves as a teaser for their forthcoming full-length Breach which you can expect on August 20th. “Nørrebro,” the first […]
http://www.nbc.com/assets/video/widget/widget.html?vid=n37080 Montreal, QC-based label Arbutus Records and many on they’re impressive roster of talent, including Blue Hawaii, BRAIDS and others, all got their start back in 2010. In the case of Blue Hawaii, the duo […]
The Detroit-based duo of Adult. will be releasing their fifth full-length album, The Way Things Fall this month through Ghostly International. The band just released the official video for one of the album’s first singles “Idle (Second […]
Earlier this week, the folks at Red Bull Music Academy invited electronic music legend (and forefather) Giorgio Moroder to stop by for an interview/lecture before what was billed as his first live DJ set at […]
New York City’s Drowners formed in early 2012 when singer/guitarist Matt Hitt sent some demos he’d written to guitarist Jack Ridley and bassist Erik Snyder, friends he’d met in bars downtown. Drummer Lakis Pavlou joined […]
Beacon’s debut For Now EP was a hauntingly ominous album that manages to burrow into the dark places of regret, temptation and obsession with an extremely minimalist form of modern R&B and electronica — it’s an anxious, […]
https://scache.vevo.com/m/html/embed.html?video=USQY51392910&playerType=embedded Fat Possum Records released Caveman’s self-titled effort back in early April, and the new effort reveals a band that has the band stretching their (proverbial) creative legs with a subtle yet profound expansion of […]
Formed in 2001, Japanther is the music and art project of duo of Matt Reilly and Ian Vanek. And in the decade of recording and performing, the band has developed a reputation for unusual live shows — […]
New York based act Small Multiples is a collaboration between duo of extremely accomplished musicians, Craig Hartley and Eli Friedmann. Both Hartley and Friedmann met while students at the New School, and after playing in […]
http://cdn.topspin.net/widgets/email2/swf/TSEmailMediaWidget.swf?timestamp=1369096816 Daughn Gibson‘s Me Moan had received quite a bit of attention for it’s mixture of brooding, old school country with the use of modern recording techniques – samplers, effect pedals, synths and the like. All Hell is the […]
Chris Kittrell records and performs under the moniker of Baby Alpaca, and his first single, the slow-burning but hauntingly beautiful “Sea of Dreams” had over 50,000 streams in it’s first three weeks available. And although […]
Liars are by far one of the most uncompromising and willfully strangest acts in recent memory. Their last album, WIXIIW, which Mute Records released last year and was on this site’s Best of 2012 list continued the […]
!!! (pronounced chk! chk! chk!) recently released their fifth full-length album, Thr!!!er through Warp Records. Just before they’re about to embark on a three month-long tour to support the new effort – with stops in Cambridge, […]
Swedish-Australian twins Miranda and Elektra Kilbey write and perform as Say Lou Lou, and with the release of “Julian,” the first single which will see a digital and 7” vinyl release throughDowntown Records on May 6th. The […]