[Birthday: Pete Townshend, 65.] Can you dream under water? That’s the feeling the new Caribou album “Swim” gives me – ambient electro-pop that tugs you into its currents. Dan Snaith and his quartet play the El Rey Theatre tonight (Toro Y Moi opens) on an evening there are so many worthy shows that I feel […]
The Morning Benders’ anthem about fleeting youth and lost innocence, “Promises,” a song about fleeting youth, gets a video treatment courtesy of directors Aaron Brown and Ben Chappell. The SoCal-bred, Bay Area-based quartet is riding high on their widely praised sophomore album, “Big Echo” – they’ve scored upcoming tour dates with Grizzly Bear, Broken Bells […]
It’s Austin and it’s Spoon. If Britt Daniel couldn’t get elected mayor of this music mecca, he’d at least be toasted as the crown prince of its indie constituency, at least judging from the adulation showered on the quartet during its 75-minute performance at the outdoor stage at Stubb’s. The heaping helping of home cooking […]
If it weren’t in the open air, I’d say the performance by Sharon Jones and the Dap-Kings on Wednesday night was roof-rattling. The 53-year-old reigning queen of vintage soul gave a memorable turn at the outdoor theater at Stubb’s during NPR’s SXSW showcase, a night that featured an equally stirring set from the Walkmen as […]
[Our pre-SXSW Stolen Lyric:] ||| Source: Broken Bells, “Vaporize” ||| Live: Broken Bells perform Sunday at the Troubadour.
“I think some of you are too familiar with some of these songs,” James Mercer said with a knowing smile, acknowledging the packed room at the Bootleg Theater on Friday night. Imagine that. In the day when music seems to be teleported straight from the studio mixing console to fans’ iPods, fans are singing along […]
It all looks so serious, this stuff from Broken Bells – the collaboration between Brian Burton (aka Danger Mouse) and the Shins’ James Mercer. (They talk about the project in a video interview with NME, in two parts.) The debut album is coming March 9, and this video for “The High Road” is the work […]
