Ross Flournoy was bowed but not broken when his indie-pop band the Broken West disintegrated more than a year ago. “I had no idea what I was going to do,” he said of his year of stewing, soul-searching and, eventually, songwriting. “Being on Merge, it’s not like you break up your band and then you […]
Happy to report the folks at Merge Records seem to have been struck by same spring fever that’s raised the temperature at Buzz Bands HQ. The label’s new digital sampler offers freebies from 14 bands, Spoon, the Clean, She & Him, Superchunk, the Clientele and L.A.’s own Radar Bros., among others. It’s available through Amazon.com, […]
[Utter exhaustion vs. Saturday night at SXSW: Which will prevail?] Telekinesis (at the Parish) – Merge Records newbies Telekinesis seem to abide every diagram in the indie rock manual – its pop practices the loud/soft dynamic, a reverence for melody and a reliance on caffeinated percussion for propulsion. And as un-revolutionary as that is, the […]
Sometimes the most fruitful collaborations come straight out of left field. So it was for the Radar Bros. earlier this year, when frontman Jim Putnam was contacted by a trio of filmmakers who do business as the General Assembly. Their offer: We’d like to make you a music video, for free. Putnam’s response: Have at […]
