NYC’s awe-inspiring doom-gazers A Place to Bury Strangers have made a nice, travelogue-style video for “So Far Away,” off the trio’s forthcoming EP “Onwards to the Wall,” out Feb. 7. Now can we pretty-please declare the Hipstamatic dead as a photographic vehicle? ||| Download: “So Far Away” ||| Live: A Place to Bury Strangers performs […]
In his pop guise, Spencer Berger is Auditorium – although, he points out in his profile, “You don’t have to call Spencer ‘Auditorium’ in real life. He’s not like The Edge. In fact, if you called him ‘Auditorium,’ he’d politely tell you to stop.” What Berger is, however, is a one-man terror in the studio. […]
When I first came across Audra Mae a couple of years ago, the first thing that impressed was the voice – powerful and expansive as the plains in her native Oklahoma. Then, of course, there was the fact she could use “jeepers” in a song and get away with it. Her backstory – the great-great-niece […]
Indie-rock fans who’ve waited more than 2 1/2 years for White Rabbits to reload their “Percussion Gun” now have something to look forward to: The Brooklyn sextet’s third album, “Milk Famous,” will be out March 6 via TBD Records. Through two albums, 2007’s “Fort Nightly” and 2009’s Britt Daniel-produced “It’s Frightening,” White Rabbits earned cred […]
The Shins today announced that their new album “Port of Morrow” would be out March 20 via Aural Apothecary/Columbia, and along with that blast revealed the new track “Simple Song” – more evidence that James Mercer and gang can write great simple songs. The track is available for immediate download for folks who pre-order the […]
It’s as if Princeton gave its brainy but not previously brawny indie-pop a style job. And it’s looking good. On its sophomore album “Remembrance of Things to Come,” the Santa Monica-bred quartet of twins Matt and Jesse Kivel, Ben Usen and David Kitz forgoes traditional pop constructs in favor of dense and often percussive orchestrations […]
Last American Buffalo, the nom de tune of singer-guitarist Kevin Compton and a rotating cast of ace players, roared through 2011 releasing a self-titled EP, a two-track single and an interesting recorded-in-one-take batch of demos, along with playing a residency or two. Compton’s excursions dating back to 2007 and 2009 leaned more toward desert Americana […]
[Brooklyn edition: A few East coast dream-pop rockers we wish had some West coast tour dates.] Frankie Rose, “Know Me” – Although Frankie Rose bounced around from band to band during 2008 when bands started paying homage to the C86 era (Vivian Girls, Crystal Stilts, Dum Dum Girls), her solo material was still released under […]
Their name may sound silly, but Jacuzzi Boys have quickly shifted the focus from their frivolous moniker to the liveliness in their music during the last couple of years. The Miami, Fla.,-based trio’s 2009 debut “No Seasons” was a record bursting with ”˜60s-leaning pop-punk tunes, and their accompanying boisterous shows have earned them fans such […]
There’s not much to the video except a lot of slow-mo detonations, but the news is that Shadow Shadow Shade, with little fanfare, unveiled a new song this morning. “Tell Me Who You Are” is a languid ballad featuring a Brian Canning/Claire McKeown duet. The song will be part of a three-track release the Los […]
