Listening to Counting Crows guitarist Dan Vickrey’ side project, Tender Mercies, I was immediately drawn to their Gram Parsons-esque sounds. There is a definable twang that alt-country has pushed in the past few decades in an attempt to get back to their folk/country roots and away from that pop-country sound that so many consider to
Download “Learning to Fly“ & “Motel Blues” feat. Carter Tanton (Both Available to Post) Boston-based dream-folk artist Marissa Nadler has offered an additional pair of tracks for free mp3 download off her Covers Volume II album. On Halloween she gave away covers of the Clinic’s “Distortions,” Bruce Springsteen’s “The River” and Bob Dylan‘s “Farewell Angelina” through her
The Norway-based electro-pop outfit Casiokids have been generating a fair amount of buzz in North America this year, stealing the country’s heart with its spectacle of a live show (imagine shadow puppets, animal costumes and video projections). But just because we Americans have recently discovered the fun, childish nature of the Norwegian quartet, doesn’t mean
It’s fall—the leaves are changing, the weather is sucking, and Real Estate’s latest LP, Days, is in your car’s CD player, or at least it should be. The five-piece hailing from New Jersey made a name for itself in 2009, when it released its self-titled debut, coining itself in the surf rock genre with track
When Lissie exploded onto the scene in 2010 with her album Catching a Tiger, the Joss Stone, Janis Joplin, Grace Slick comparisons were the ones that were most thrown out, but journalists ran the gamut of clichéd comparisons like they always do. Lissie is a heavy smoker, with the throaty rasp that’s so appealing to
Andy R. (né Andy Rauworth) and Craig Nice (né Craig Fleischman) say they have been playing music together since they were 15. In 2010, nearly a decade later, the duo released a 7” entitled Out/Don’t… under the moniker Gauntlet Hair and created a swarm of buzz around their stabbing, reverbed avant-pop. And then those bastards
There’s a feeling that I get when I listen to the new Blitzen Trapper, an inexplicable sense of warmth and home. American Goldwing is a quintessential rock album. It is all things to all people. At one point it feels like Bob Dylan as is the case with “Stranger in a Strange Land,” but then
After listening to Two Guns’ self-titled debut album, I was thoroughly impressed. Kevin Poush, the lead singer and guitarist, had such a melancholy affable tone on the first album, which was a bit reminiscent of Jeff Tweedy at his most laconic. I saw great potential in the band and recognized a sound that was distinct
I was sitting in front of my new laptop today lamenting the death of Punk Rock…again. Punk has lived and died more times in the past twenty years than Paul McCartney during the Abbey Road years. Then I listened to the new Indians album and saw a minor resurgence on the horizon. Their self-titled debut
Since I don’t like making erroneous statements when I write reviews, this is what I found on the Tonequake Records website describing Low Roar: “Low Roar is Ryan Karazija. Ryan Karazija is Low Roar. Ryan moved to Iceland, the winter was dark, and this is what happened!” Before I looked at this, I thought of