A compilation tribute album can be a blessing or a curse, the ultimate risk/reward. Often times, covers are a kiss of death because they are unimaginative, lack originality and are pretty much a snore, hardly straying from the original version. Fortunately on Reimagine Music’s Subterranean Homesick Blues: A Tribute To Bob Dylan’s Bringing It All
So Spring Break is so five minutes ago which means it’s onto planning how you’ll be Spring-ing into the Summer festival season. Lucky for us Austin is getting us amped for the fourth annual Austin Psych Fest! Grab your closest music friends and fiends and get to jetting over to a fest that will blow
Panda Bear has a lot to live up to. One part of Animal Collective, a band that now commands the respect of millions after people ‘suddenly’ began paying attention to Merriweather Post Pavillion, and one part indie darling, Noah Lennox has always hand-crafted sounds. That work, continues to inspire and impress as Tomboy, his fourth
The Goldberg Sisters is the musical pseudonym of actor and director Adam Goldberg, who you probably know best from his roles in Saving Private Ryan, Dazed and Confused, and Friends. As diverse as his acting roles are, he always seems to have this magnetic intensity that’s hard to ignore. His latest project is a diverse
Laura Weinbach of Foxtails Brigade has a voice like the sirens of Homer’s Odyssey. It draws you in with its sheer beauty and takes you places where you teeter on the edge of bliss and terror. Foxtails Brigade’s debut album, The Bread And The Bait, is chock full of dreamy chamber pop- with a sharp
Denmark’s very own The Raveonettes are back with a dark, melodic (for them) fifth album, merging open guitars and violent synth. Raven In The Grave is a more full, deep album than previous ones, and it abandoned some of the most famous parts of The Raveonettes until now: distortion and drums Clocking in at around
It’s been a rough ride for Ann Arbor-based alt-folk crooner Chris Bathgate. On his fourth record, Salt Year, which is a title that the singer uses to describe the time of personal tumult that transpired during the writing and recording of this album. However, the darkness of this album is a refreshing dose of raw
Which flavor of The Kills do you prefer? That’s what is going to determine whether or not your Blood Pressures are raised this week, and if you like the feeling. Do you like the ‘kick dirt on your shoes, bluesy attitude’ of Allison Mosshart (also, of Jack White’s The Dead Weather) and Jamie Hince, or
Artist: Little TybeeAlbum: Humorous to Bees Genre: Indie, folk, popRecommended tracks: “Strong Ears”, “In Range” The theater is dark and swelled with anticipation. The movie opens, fades from black. Dainty, rhythmic shakers are heard–first softly, then loudly. Images fill the screen: a picturesque French setting, somewhere in Paris, of course. It is springtime, pigeons dot
Artist: Tyler Fortier Genre: Americana Few musicians render me speechless, awestruck and inspired all at once, but Tyler Fortier recently managed to do it with his latest album, Fear Of The Unknown. Yes, I review music all the time and listen to artists of all genres and calibres, but Fortier… he’s different. In Fear Of