New York – Eliot Sumner has not strayed far from her electro-pop roots for her Information EP. This new release comes with a darker, deeper sound than what we heard on her previous project, I Blame Coco. Both sounds are still steeped in the new wave, synth-pop tradition and are clearly siblings in that sense,
New York – The John Steel Singers’ Everything’s A Thread is an album characterized by a psychedelic, chaotic, and occasionally hallucinogenic sound. Scott Bromiley, Tim Morrissey, Ross Chander, Pete Bernoth and Luck McDonald have created an album that doesn’t variety much in sound, but rather hunkers down in a direction, solidifying all that dream-like haze
New York – On Real Friends’ new album, their first full length, the intro/opening track “Maybe This Place Is The Same…” sets the tone. Primarily instrumental, with only a line or two of vocals, it introduces the themes of change and interpersonal relationships. The album isn’t simply about break-up or growing up. It makes those processes
New York – After Franklin, Tennessee’s CALEB reinvented, renamed and re-imagined themselves to create Colony House, band members Caleb Chapman (vocals), Scott Mills (guitar) and Will Franklin Chapman (drums) released their debut, When I Was Younger, off of Descendant Records. A lengthy fourteen tracks long, the album opens with “Silhouettes;” a bright, summer song perfect for a lead single.
New York – Never Hungover Again is a punk rock gem and, as most great albums are, perhaps too short for how good it is. Each song stays under the usual three minute mark, but despite its length, the record doesn’t skimp on narrative or depth. The album’s opening track, “Christmas Card”, is a charming song
New York – Williamsburg’s Baby’s All Right is a unique venue. Part restaurant, part bar and part music hall, it played the perfect host for Brooklyn’s genre-defying group Landlady. This Tuesday, to celebrate the release of the band’s newest album Upright Behavior, Landlady took the stage after opening acts Celestial Shore and Shy Hunters. Before doors
New York – Wooden Head is an easy album to like; with soft-spoken lyrics and melodic guitar riffs so mellow, the modern listener may go as far as to call it “chill.” However, it’s hard to speak of such an old-timey sounding record in current slang terms. For their debut, English indie rockers The Proper Ornaments have crafted
New York – My Iron Lung’s Relief, a follow-up to their 2012 record Grief, is an album that promises more of a maturity in sound, songwriting ability, and complexity than anything we’ve heard from the band before. Their new record comes across, as expected, as a relentless torrent of screaming vocals and rolling drums, but not in
New York – In his new project, Aaron West and the Roaring Twenties, Dan “Soupy” Campbell has successfully created an artistic alter ego in order to get down to the meaning of “self.” His debut album, We Don’t Have Each Other, is a lyrical journey through the fraying life of Aaron West. To extrapolate on and
New York – Brooklyn’s Silent Barn is not your typical concert space. Part art space, part living space, the Silent Barn looks more like a frat house than a music venue—except instead of Kappa Sigs, the rooms are inhabited by full-blooded Brooklyn hipsters. The walls are painted with sprawling murals that jump from one aesthetic