Nightmares for a Week's 2010 debut LP Don't Die was an overlooked gem, one of those releases that rarely seemed to garner negative criticism but struggled to gather the attention...
This has got to be one of the most anticipated releases of 2013, or at least for me it has been. Big Eyes' debut album Hard Life, which came out back in 2011, was all about catchy...
Sounds soaring, skyscrapering, cloud-surfing, moon-touching and cliff-leaping - wherever you are.
Howdy. This new double album by The Bevis Frond is a good one. Genre: rock. Enjoy! The Bevis Frond – White Numbers Filed under: 2013, Rock
"Is this guy for real?" "What exactly is his problem?" "Why does he have to be naked?" - all valid questions upon one's first exposure to Har Mar Superstar. After his 2000 debut...
Bradford Cox has long maintained that music is for all intents and purposes his boyfriend. Often classifying himself as asexual, he's asserted that a relationship would convolute...
Deerhunter set up uncharacteristically straightforward confines only to mock their self-set boundaries from within.
Grandiose indie provocateurs get "accessible" in their usual bizarre, polarizing, glorious way.
Good morning friends. The new Deerhunter album, added for most users yesterday, has now been added all over Europe. Genre: experimental rock. Enjoy! Deerhunter – Monomania Filed...
Before I begin this review, I’d like to file a professional complaint against the members of Deerhunter, Deer Tick, and Deerhoof. There are too many of you. Figure it out, guys...
Deerhunter are one of those very fortunate indie rock bands who have managed to achieve a surprising amount of critical and popular consensus. I would imagine that, when all is...
Last week I wrote about the beautiful, subtle music of James Blake. This week I am writing about the Thermals, who are almost exactly Blake’s opposite: blasty, condensed, driving...
Hi. The brief but passionate new album by The Thermals is a recent addition to Spotify. Genre: rock. Enjoy! (Version for Irish users here.) (One review here.) The Thermals...
To the casual observer, The Thermals might seem like a one-trick pony. While their brand of power-pop punk uses a "keep it simple, stupid" approach, they have made a conscious...
Art Brut have been called many things over the course of their career, not all of them polite. Over the last ten years, however, Art Brut have been tirelessly working towards the...
It's not irony and it's not rock and roll. It's an overview of a decade's worth of wry pop-punk and just talking... to the kids.
The 12-track album was written and demoed over the past three years and was produced by Roger Leavens at Boombox Sound in Toronto. A key ingredient to the creation of Birthmarks...
If Born Ruffians have slipped under your radar, it’s probably high time you pull them back out. First, though, they had to pull themselves out. Huddled (perhaps unfairly) among...
Say what you will about Yeah Yeah Yeahs, but you can't deny they're consistent. For 13 years, the New York trio has been propelling their double-jointed brand of hyperventilating...
When Yeah Yeah Yeahs landed ten or so years ago, they were a garish, arty, technicolour scrawl of protest against the largely dreary rock & roll revivalism that then held sway. It...
Morning. The latest album by Yeah Yeah Yeahs was added to Spotify earlier this week. Genre: pop/rock. Read this review and enjoy! (US version here. Yeah Yeah Yeahs – Mosquito...
The Yeah Yeah Yeahs are a band that have been pretty hard to avoid; for instance, they’ve never gotten much closer than the outer periphery of my own musical tastes, but even I...
Post-post-punk heroes mix veteran wiliness with the vivacity (and relentless sexiness) of youth
Comforting, like a slab of rich chocolate cake, but with a similar sense of bloating
"You have your three big things that you can talk about, basically, if you're going to write something that actually means something to you as a human being, which is Love, God...
Hey. It’s a lovely spring day and the sun is shining. Good times. Here is the new album by folk singer-songwriter Iron & Wine. Enjoy! (Read some positive reviews here.) (A US...
Much-loved Melbourne guitar-slingers Dick Diver return with second album Calendar Days, the follow-up to 2011 debut New Start Again . Previously known for their scratchy, dueling...
Good evening. The new album by psychedelic rock band The Black Angels was added to Spotify earlier this week. Read some mostly positive reviews and enjoy! (US version here.) The...
Morning. Let’s continue with another pop album. Read some reviews and enjoy Generationals! (Version for AU, NZ and US here.) Generationals – Heza Filed under: 2013, Pop
In many respects, Generationals is the epitome of an indie-rock group. A duo unencumbered by extraneous personnel, New Orleans natives Ted Joyner and Grant Widmer craft their pop...
Remix albums have something of a deserved bad name: often lazily tossed off cash cows trying to convince the consumer to pay out for the same product twice. Yet another Blade...
Hi. I must say that I really enjoyed the new album by The Besnard Lakes when I gave it a spin last night. Genre: dream pop. Enjoy! (Reviews here.) The Besnard Lakes – Until In...
The Olympia punks broaden their horizons with classic rock and country plucking, but keep their hardcore mentality intact
In the 90s, Olympia was a hotbed of DIY punk rebellion, creativity and action. Riot grrrl bands Heavens To Betsy, The Frumpies and Bikini Kill – among many more - all formed in...
What if a rock album were nothing but anthems? Nothing but guitar driven optimism, laying waste to a squalor of bass and drums. What if every song had zipping, scuzzy two verse...
Indie-rock outfit Cold War Kids have announced a release date for their fourth album. Titled Dear Miss Lonelyhearts , the album will be available via Downtown Records. The Long...
The band return to the sort of idiosyncratic weirdness that made us fall for them in the first place
The band come at us with a more arena-friendly, singalong incarnation of themselves for their fourth full length.
Seven years after their debut, Cold War Kids are still some of indie rock’s most consummate, underrated professionals. I always forget how much I actually liked 2006’s Robbers...
The release of Vampire Weekend’s Modern Vampires of the City was recently pushed back to May 14th, but that isn’t the only sad news coming from the peppy indie rock prepsters...