Los Angeles – Today alt-J release “Hunger Of The Pine,” the first song to be lifted from their forthcoming second album, This Is All Yours. “Hunger Of The Pine” is streaming now at NPR and available at all digital retailers and streaming services. The track is also available to those that pre-order the new album, the highly anticipated
New York – The Black Angels are excited to announce the official release of their new offering Clear Lake Forest, due July 22, 2014 via Blue Horizon. Clear Lake Forest saw a limited 10″ vinyl release on Record Store Day, but on July 22 the 7-track set will have a much wider release in a variety of formats. It is now available for pre-order
Portland – Dub Thompson seems to be a band that does what it wants. Members Matt Pulos (guitar and vocals) and Evan Laffer (drums) are two nineteen year old dudes who met in their Agoura Hills high school gym class, bonded over a love of Can and Talking Heads (because we all listened to Can
Los Angeles – alt-J today announce the release of their second album, This Is All Yours, the follow-up to their million-selling Mercury Prize-winning debut record, An Awesome Wave. This Is All Yours is available to pre-order immediately; the album will be released on September 22via Canvasback / Infectious Music in CD, digital and double-vinyl editions. Starting today, fans who
San Francisco - Every musician dreams of having ability to fully command an audience’s attention, but it’s a skill is one that takes years and years to perfect. I know of many bands that have yet to achieve such fluidity and grace onstage, bands that have been together for years—even decades—yet they still lack the kind
New York – Reuben And The Dark is a troop of four Canadian-bred multi-instrumentalists lead by Rueben Bollock. The band released their first album, Funeral Sky, in late May, and the LP is such a successful introduction that it’s hard to believe it surfaced as a debut. Brimming with boisterous confidence, the album is a downright
San Francisco – In high school, I remember a few friends of mine and I had this crazy notion that we should start a band. We failed, of course, but I couldn’t help thinking that other people must feel the same way. The fresh-faced lads of the UK’s newest experimental posse, Glass Animals, have taken
Austin – After seeing headlines like “David Guetta Cancels World Tour After Losing USB Containing His Entire Set”, it’s hard to not become skeptical about the artistic integrity of today’s well known EDM performers. Someone spending $50 on a ticket can’t help but ask themselves: What am I paying for? An authentic live performance, or
Portland – Justified or not, Northern England has a reputation for heavy skies and stark industrial scenes. “Tramlines and slagheaps, pieces of machinery,” W.H. Auden once penned cheerily, describing his native region. As the saying goes in Southern England, “it’s grim up North.” Those supposedly gloomy climes above the Watford Gap have given rise to more than
Los Angeles —What is the meaning of life? How do we survive loneliness and loss? Why is happiness so fleeting? The human condition is a theme that artists have studied for centuries, but it is rare to find one who can successfully explore existence in a way that is elegantly simple and profound — Redvers