When I sat down with Lord Huron’s Ben Schneider, a thoughtful and well spoken individual with an uncanny aura of passion and intelligence, I sat in reverence of his talent. A traveled individual with a degree in painting and an eye for nature, Schneider is a mindful individual. It would make sense then, that Lord
Remember Belle and Sebastian and the ’60s and San Francisco coffee houses? Remember fading out into evocative music sensibilities and not questioning the source but grooving in the synchronicity of craft and maker? Interested in being taken back to that labyrinth? Look no further than the likes of The Blank Tapes. The California trio
Today, there is a reason to illuminate your airwaves with a potent introduction. Yes, we’ve taken an original, unconventional route to follow the bizarrely brilliant six-piece, soul-shaking masterpiece known as Flow Tribe to an eight-mile long beach town in the panhandle of Florida just to snag these masters mid-tour. As New Orleans natives, Flow Tribe is the
Here we are, in the warmth of summer. With July commencing, most often summertime evokes a severe longing for those bittersweet romance harmonies best paired with endless nights driving around, crying out lyrics, counting the days and nights until school starts again. This season is stacked, as The Smith Westerns have dropped the very album
The Blank Tapes are spectacular and dare we say, just in time for the warm weather. That’s all that can be said of the trio after we caught their show on Atlanta’s East Side at The Earl for their afternoon show. We grabbed a bite to eat with the band where Matt Adams, the mastermind
Paul McCartney, Tom Petty, Jack Johnson, we adore you – we do. You have given the listening community fulfilling tunes for decades and to you we are forever grateful. Today though, we’re taking a step back and spotlighting the new bands, the emerging musical progenies of the 21st century. All those fantastic young bands that are
Of Monsters and Men have made significant strides. In a short three years, the Icelandic masterminds released debut album My Head Is An Animal to critical acclaim conquering the charts in the U.S., UK, Canada, Ireland, Iceland and nearly every other European country. This year the team took home European Border Breakers Awards top honor
The Mohawk is a one of the best live venues in Austin. Located Downtown on Red River directly across from Stubbs BBQ, The Mohawk has recently expanded to a tri-deck outside viewing area with both an indoor and outdoor stage. We therefore, were not surprised when their June calendar announced DIIV would be playing. How
Bethany Cosentino is a vision. Bobb Bruno is a master. This is how the Los Angeles duo known as Best Coast brings California surf pop to an international audience – they merely exist. So often they have been noted as a band that has rooted a lot of great singles. And they are, but they
When it comes to music José Gonzalez, the folk singer from Gothenburg, Sweden, seems to do little, if anything wrong. In the early Aughts, the singer was part of a trio with Elias Araya (drums) and Tobias Winterkorn (synth/keys) bringing forth the transformative nova folk spectrum known as Junip. To date, the trio has