The Lumineers were formed by Wesley Schultz and Jeremiah Fraites in New York.  After battling the city's cutthroat music scene and impossibly high cost of living, the two decided to expand their horizons. They packed everything they owned and headed for Denver, Colorado, where they met cellist Neyla Pakarek. And so The Lumineers sound took shape; an amalgam of heart-swelling stomp-and-clap acoustic rock, classic pop, and front-porch folk. Their self titled debut album comes out April 3rd through Dualtone, and despite the album…

GUYS. Everyone's favorite down-to-earth, sweet-honey harmonizing Los Angeles band, Lady Danville (fresh off the release of their gorgeous new EP, Operating--listen below), is holding a album art design contest!  You, oh lucky one, get a chance to design the art for singles "Sophie Roux" and "Kids (MGMT Cover)" which are being released soon on iTunes.  First off, if you haven't heard anything by Lady Danville, these are some great tracks to start with.  "Sophie Roux" is a deliciously sugared, French-hued…

Leave it to Zac Pennington and his bizarro freak-pop troupe Parenthetical Girls to entitle their tour, the “PG-13 Tour” (parents strongly caution). The Portland-based group embarked on its risqué road voyage on Wednesday, March 21st, and plans to make the rounds through North America, beginning in California and ending up in Seattle in mid-May.  Pennington’s first words about the tour were these: “Awake in beautiful SAC-RA-MENTOOO, California. ‘This is what you chose to do with your life. These are the…

Modern Americana rock outfit The War on Drugs kicked off their North American tour last week, and are playing their first SXSW show at Pitchfork’s day party today (Image by Samantha West). After making the southern music mecca rounds in Ausin, they’ll be heading west as co-headliners with Sharon Van Etten. Their following headlining leg of the tour will begin in Brooklyn with an already sold out show at Music Hall of Williamsburg on April 6th, but tickets are still…