New York – The Juno Awards are presented annually to Canadian musical artists and bands to acknowledge their artistic and technical achievements in all aspects of music. On January 27th, 2015 Alvvays was selected for their outstanding achievements in the “Breakthrough Group Of The Year” and “Alternative Album Of The Year” categories. The fuzz-pop quintet
Melbourne, Australia’s Courtney Barnett, singer-songwriter, guitar virtuoso, visual artist and label owner whose 2013 release The Double EP: A Sea of Split Peas set the music world alight, is releasing her debut LP Sometimes I Sit and Think, and Sometimes I Just Sit on March 24 via Mom + Pop Music. Sometimes I Sit and Think, and Sometimes I
Austin – Is there a blues revival underway? Probably not. More accurately, if you can’t hear the Muddy Waters influence in artists who claim blues as a source of inspiration, nobody should blame you. In the music of Angel Olsen (a Best New Bands 2013 Best New Female Artist nominee) or Max Frost, the twelve
Louisville KY – The Forecastle Festival will return this summer led by Louisville hometown heroes My Morning Jacket; soulful breakout star, Sam Smith; southern rock heavyweights, Widespread Panic; and indie veterans, Modest Mouse. The three-day music celebration, now in its 13th year, will take place July 17-19, at the award-winning Waterfront Park, a sweeping green space on the banks of the Ohio River framed by the
New York – Jib Kidder’s bandcamp bio reads “no genre, no hometown, hard to pin down since Y2K.” This is true: Sean Schuster-Craig has lived all over the country (grew up in Georgia, spent time in the Midwest and on the West Coast, currently based in New York) and experimented with genres from Southern hip-hop
Los Angeles – Considering the album title, The King Of Anxiety, it is no surprise that the five tracks on Petite Noir’s debut EP (out digitally January 19) display a complete mastery of the art of apprehension. Subdued guitar work and frenetic-yet-calculated rhythms offer the perfect backdrop for bandleader Yannick Ilunga’s dramatic and emotional vocal
Los Angeles – The duo comprising synth-pop band, Night Terrors of 1927, formulate an interesting pair. Blake Sennett (guitarist) was a member of the successful indie rock band Rilo Kiley and The Elected. Jarrod Gorbel (vocals) was the singer of The Honorary Title. The two guys met in 2010 through mutual friends with no intentions
Los Angeles – LA-by-way-of-DC “brat-pop” specialists Holychild put on an energetic set last Monday, the second appearance in their month-long “Money, Money, Mondays” residency at The Echo. You may be asking yourself: “What exactly is this ‘brat-pop?’” The term is essentially a meaningless label the band has concocted to categorize their infectiously contagious songs, though
New York – Great Good Fine Ok is a magnanimous duo out of Brooklyn that’s been making waves in the blogosphere at breakneck speed. The act is Jon Sandler and Luke Moellman and, together, the two draw on the R&B savants of yesteryear to concoct a singular spin on synth pop. Put simply, this band’s
Chicago – U.K. band Until The Ribbon Breaks is about to unveil their highly anticipated debut full-length, A Lesson Unlearnt (Kobalt), in the U.S. Music critics fell in love with UTRB when the trio released their The Other Ones EP a little over a year ago. The threesome – comprised of singer and multi-instrumentalist Pete