There’s something funny about Matthew McConaughey singing the lyrics to Butch Walker & the Black Widows‘ “Synthesizers.” Perhaps it’s because the lip-synching involves his reprisal of the “Dazed and Confused” character David Wooderson, who has, indeed, stayed the same age. Still wearing those ’70s duds and burning one down, he’s got the young girls following […]
Sarah McIntosh could easily be lumped in with female-fronted electro-pop bands such as La Roux and Ladyhawke, but the sophisticated gothic sheen on pop melodies she offers with her band the Good Natured sets her apart. Slinking between Scandinavian-like bubblegum choruses to sensually dark undertones that echo Ladytron, McIntosh (along with her brother Hamish and […]
This Friday lineup feels like party time … ‣ Party-starting electro outfit Wallpaper ought to be mighty festive tonight when they headline the El Rey Theatre – the project fronted by Ricky Reed has moved up to Epic Records from indie Boardwalk, it was announced last week. Youngblood Hawke and Speakers open. That’s Wallpaper’s animated […]
Your Thursday show menu: ‣ Experimental pop/soul/jazz troubadour Forrest Day visits the Satellite, along with indie-rock tribute band Black Crystal Wolf Kids and Whiskey Saints. That’s Day’s bizarre-but-cool video for “Sleepwalk,” above. ‣ South African trio Civil Twilight does an early show at the Bootleg Bar. ‣ DJs Peanut Butter Wolf and Rich Medina (and […]
Your Tuesday things: ‣ The Silent Comedy bring their foot-stomping blues-Americana to the Roxy for a headlining show that features rockers Taylor Locke & the Roughs, who are working on the follow-up to the two albums they released in 2010, and Races, the indie-rockers whose debut album “Year of the Witch” is out March 27 […]
Sweden’s sister duo First Aid Kit couldn’t have picked a better setting for their “Emmylou” video. Given the song title and their folk flavor, one’s assumption that it might have to do something with Emmylou Harris would be correct. However, the song is also a tribute to artists such as Johnny Cash, June Carter and, […]
One thing about Jeffertitti’s Nile last full-length album, “Hypnotic River of Sound”: With a title like that, you don’t need a lot of adjectives to describe what they’re doing. With their guitar benders and reverb-soaked vocals, the psych-rock revivalists have one hand in the 1960s and the other in their parents’ medicine cabinet. And so […]
If tonight’s show list were any longer, it’d be a Phish song: ‣ New York’s Penguin Prison brings his dancey electro-pop to the Echo, supported by American Royalty. That’s Penguin Prison’s Occupy Wall Street-inspired video for “Don’t F*ck With My Money,” above. ‣ M83 and Big Black Delta do a second sold-out night at Club […]
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 […]
Tonight’s touts: ‣ Andrew McMahon brings Jack’s Mannequin to the Viper Room for a sold-out show behind the October release of his third album, “People and Things.” Don’t stay out too late, though (or set your DVR), the band also appears tonight on “The Tonight Show With Jay Leno.” Jack’s Mannequin kicks off a nationwide […]
