Bonnaroo’s Small Stages: The Faces of The Festival Javier Dunn Chats About Signing To Red Parade Music And How Sara Bareilles Changed His Life Young Empires Bring Dance Rock to Seattle's Folky Tractor Tavern FM Radio Talks About Their OneRepublic and Sheryl Crow Pasts, Songwriting and What the Future Holds James Bay Clicks With the Troubadour on His First U.S. Tour Mixtape 28: Laura Marling, Father John Misty and more Northside Fest Day 1: Bennio Qwerty, A Place to Bury Strangers, and Iceage Album Review: Thundercat, Apocalypse Featured Artist: Local Natives Chrome Sparks Set The Echoplex Ablaze Album Review: Surfer Blood, Pythons Of Monsters and Men Are In Prime Form In Austin
Bonnaroo’s Small Stages: The Faces of The Festival
Paul McCartney, Tom Petty, Jack Johnson, we adore you – we do. Today though, we’re taking a step back and spotlighting the new bands, the emerging musical progenies of the 21st century. All those - - - READ MORE
Javier Dunn Chats About Signing To Red Parade Music And How Sara Bareilles Changed His Life
It takes a fair amount of dedication and passion to step out from behind the shadow of a star and make a name for yourself. Many musicians make incredible livings playing in studio or touring bands, but - - - READ MORE
Young Empires Bring Dance Rock to Seattle's Folky Tractor Tavern
The Tractor Tavern is typically the home of Seattle’s local and travelling folk and blues groups. The relatively small club has hosted acts such as Langhorne Slim and The Proclaimers. In the past few - - - READ MORE
FM Radio Talks About Their OneRepublic and Sheryl Crow Pasts, Songwriting and What the Future Holds
The mainstream is polluted with pop-leaning hooks and melodies, and sometimes, it takes a bit of digging to uncover an artist to really strike a chord with listeners. For Schuyler Fisk and Tim Myers - - - READ MORE
James Bay Clicks With the Troubadour on His First U.S. Tour
It’s tough going for singer-songwriters. If you’re not a natural poet or have some truly unique angle, you better have one hell of a voice and a perfect live act. At this point, the guitar-toting James Bay out of - - - READ MORE
Mixtape 28: Laura Marling, Father John Misty and more
This week's mix is a combination of old and new tracks, because discoveries are fun, but sometimes re-discoveries are just what we need. Best Coast is on because Kristen saw them at The - - - READ MORE
Northside Fest Day 1: Bennio Qwerty, A Place to Bury Strangers, and Iceage
Northside Music Festival has commenced in northern Brooklyn, and it’s bigger and heavier than ever. Last night was the first night of the music portion, and I already feel like I barely made it out alive - - - READ MORE
Album Review: Thundercat, Apocalypse
Sometimes great music comes from obscure places. Other times it’s so obvious that the music is overwhelmingly amazing that impossible to put your finger on the pulse of why that’s the - - - READ MORE
Featured Artist: Local Natives
With Bonnaroo around the corner, there are so many awesome new bands that are playing at the extravaganza in deep in the heart of Tennessee. We’re proud to say that a fair share of site alumni - - - READ MORE
Chrome Sparks Set The Echoplex Ablaze
On Tuesday night Check Yo Ponytail 2 hosted a dance party, and even though headliners Anamanaguchi weren’t slated to play until midnight, the room was full by 9:45 pm with fans anticipating a - - - READ MORE
Album Review: Surfer Blood, Pythons
Surfer Blood might have set all future expectations a bit high for themselves with their 2010 debut album Astro Coast. The band’s immediate knack for hypnotizing hooks (“Floating Vibes” has been - - - READ MORE
Of Monsters and Men Are In Prime Form In Austin
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 (Photo By Carlos Legarreta) - - - READ MORE
Bonnaroo’s Small Stages: The Faces of The Festival

Bonnaroo’s Small Stages: The Faces of The Festival

18 June 2013

Paul McCartney, Tom Petty, Jack Johnson, we adore you – we do. You have given the listening community fulfilling tunes for decades and to...

Javier Dunn Chats About Signing To Red Parade Music And How Sara Bareilles Changed His Life

Javier Dunn Chats About Signing To Red Parade Music And...

17 June 2013

It takes a fair amount of dedication and passion to step out from behind the shadow of a star and make a name for...

Album Review: Thundercat, Apocalypse

Album Review: Thundercat, Apocalypse

12 June 2013

Sometimes great music comes from obscure places. Other times it’s so obvious that the music is overwhelmingly amazing that impossible to put your finger...

Features

Mixtape 28: Laura Marling, Father John Misty and more

Mixtape 28: Laura Marling, Father John Misty and more

14 June 2013

  This week's mix is a combination of old and new tracks, because discoveries are fun, but sometimes re-discoveries are just what we need. Best Coast is on because Kristen saw them at The Mohawk, and also because it’s summertime. There's also an older track from Shilpa Ray,...

Featured Artist: Local Natives

Featured Artist: Local Natives

12 June 2013

With Bonnaroo literally around the corner, there are so many awesome new bands that are playing at the extravaganza in deep in the heart of Tennessee. We’re proud to say that a fair share of site alumni are at the event, in fact way too many too...

Grouplove Unveils The First Single From Their Upcoming Album

Grouplove Unveils The First Single From Their Upcoming Album

10 June 2013

Canvasback Music/Atlantic recording group Grouplove has announced early details of their much-anticipated new album. Produced by the band’s own Ryan Rabin, “SPREADING RUMOURS” arrives in stores and at all online retailers on September 17th. “SPREADING RUMOURS” – which follows Grouplove’s acclaimed 2011 debut, “NEVER TRUST A HAPPY SONG”...

Mixtape 27: Crystal Fighters - DIIV - Michael Kiwanuka and more

Mixtape 27: Crystal Fighters - DIIV - Michael Kiwanuka and more

05 June 2013

 Summer is already starting to feel like it’s blowing up, as we’ve had a busy week with new breezy tunes to chill in your beach chair by, as well as some fresh jams to sweat it out to. In live reviews, Zach Klassen was up at Sasquatch!...

Featured Artist: Bleached

Featured Artist: Bleached

05 June 2013

  Today’s styling of punk music is harder to find than before. This can be attributed to the watered down version of pop punk that nearly destroyed the genre and turned punk from a lifestyle and attitude into just another cash cow. While bands we won’t mention did...

Mixtape 26: Dale Earnhardt Jr. Jr., Cayucas and More

Mixtape 26: Dale Earnhardt Jr. Jr., Cayucas and More

02 June 2013

After a short hiatus, we’re back with a new mix, summing up our best new coverage, plus the new tunes that really struck me during the week of May 19-25. Kristen hung out at Hangout Festival in Alabama, citing The Kingston Springs as the band that topped...

Featured Artist: Laura Marling

Featured Artist: Laura Marling

30 May 2013

If you were to tell someone in, oh let’s say 1995, that Britpop would be kaput and West End British folk would be on top of the world nearly 20 years later, many people would have laugh and likely think that you should be institutionalized. Yet here...

New Trixie Whitley Video: Breathe You In My Dreams

New Trixie Whitley Video: Breathe You In My Dreams

29 May 2013

  Trixie Whitley has premiered her new video. The video is for the deep and soulful stunner, "Breathe You In My Dreams," one of the centerpieces from her debut, Fourth Corner (Strong Blood). Matthu Placek, who also directed the gorgeous video for "A Thousand Thieves", directed the clip.  "The way Matthew expressed the...

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Live Reviews

This year has seemed to be dubbed the Year of The Remix. Not many tools have been as effective to get your band’s name blasted into the blogosphere--especially if you connect with the right artist to rework your music--and some groups specialize in remixes, choosing to re-imagine others’ work instead of creating their own. Little Daylight started off as one such project, remixing the likes of Freelance Whales and Edward Sharpe & The Magnetic Zeros, but 2013 sees the Brooklyn-based…
I’m not sure exactly what it is about Montreal that lends itself to producing musicians that really know how to perfect the art of an atmospheric soundscape. Graceful, languishing, nuanced, and layered music with just the right amount of fuzz just seems to pour out of the city, and The Besnard Lakes are one of those bands that pull it off superbly. They just drew their North American tour to a close, and I caught them at Bowery Ballroom when…

Metz Burns Bright at The Troubadour

Written by Friday, 03 May 2013 12:19
Even though Canadian punk band METZ has just one studio album to their name, Wednesday night they tore through the Troubadour in West Hollywood like hardened veterans. Having already rocked through the European and East Coast legs of their 2013 tour, the trio was poised and confident, foregoing a written set list in favor of a performance that felt both raw and intimate at the same time. Opening for METZ were Mrs. Magician and White Lung -- two guitar-driven groups…
As tents were packed up and an unfortunately garbage-strewn field was being cleared, the emptiness of Carson Creek Ranch after a weekend of truly psychedelic proportions could have been a sad scene, but midst hastily making plans to return next year we now have a moment of calm to think of all the new music we learned about over the course of these three days. So instead of dwelling on the festival’s end and the return to life, this is…