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 – Perfume Genius is the moniker of Seattle’s own singer-songwriter Mike Hadreas. Since his debut, this soloist’s tracks have crashed through playlists with unforgiving, tidal might. But Hadreas’ power is neither loud nor sonically invasive. Rather, his work carries a message that’s both apt and vital. With melodically demure ballads, this is a
Los Angeles – What a debut! Alvvays’ self-titled record is a 9-track, lo-fi haze that is perfect for a joyride down the coastline. The strong and sentimental indie-pop has fanciful guitar breakdowns and vocals from lead singer Molly Rankin that are so fluffy they’re almost too good to be true. The Canadian five-piece has completed
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 – 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
Brooklyn – Maryland’s own The Sea Life is a beloved local band well worthy of farther-flung audiences. The group’s work is engineered for lovers of long-game bedroom rock, steeped in sonic dissonance and stewed in lyrical conjecturing. Armed with just enough of a catalog to appeal to an increasing number of fans, The Sea Life has now
Seattle – Adam Schatz has been around the block when it comes to today’s music scene, after working with the likes of Man Man and Vampire Weekend and curating a jazz festival in New York City. But it’s his main project, Landlady, that’s set to impress with their latest record Upright Behavior. The five-piece outfit from Brooklyn
Portland – Everybody loves an album with a back-story; Bon Iver’s For Emma, Forever Ago emerging from Justin Vernon’s three months of post-breakup solitude in a snow-bound Wisconsin cabin, and John Coltrane, kicked out of Miles Davis’ group as a junkie, experiencing a life saving spiritual awakening and setting it to tape in the form of A Love
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
Los Angeles — Jack Antonoff is no rookie to the music scene and it shows in his new band. The former Steel Train front man and current lead guitarist for fun. has been once again reborn as Bleachers and the debut LP, Strange Desire, is a fully developed radio-friendly prize. While Antonoff should have been resting