A spoken-word excerpt from a 1980s documentary about teenage homelessness, the sound of a body splashing into the ocean, several utterly heart-breaking eulogies to lost loved ones, Tom Krell’s second album under the guise of [...]
Whatever your stance on 30 Seconds To Mars’ particularly angst-ridden brand of emo-rock, it’s impossible to question frontman Jared Leto’s dedication to the cause. After all, this is the man who put on 67 pounds [...]
On their fourth opus – their first since 2005′s Human After All – basically, the iconic French house synth robo impregnators made 2001: A Space Odyssey for disco children of the early 80s. There’s no [...]
Mid-century b-roll footage, videogame promos, sunburnt sketchbook journeys and more as we encounter another week of new ways to drop a verse and song on your eyeballs in live real text time. Watch out for [...]
He may be a decade younger than most of The Rolling Stones, but George Strait’s current The Cowboy Rides Away tour will be his last after admitting he doesn’t want it to get to the [...]
It seemed like just yesterday that the world couldn’t get enough of Eve Jeffers, the lone lioness from the Ruff Ryders camp who’s lyrical prowess never seemed to get the attention it fully deserved. It’s [...]
Vampire Weekend’s third offering, Modern Vampires of the City, experiments with pitch-shifting, recording onto tape and even a spectrum analyzer. The 43-minute tour-de-spirituality was made with the ethos: ‘if it sounds familiar, throw it out’. Outside of [...]
Indie ivy leaguers make the champagne pop and lyrics ding-a-ling, Matisyahu shoots the pop moon, Aesop Rock melts comic-sprawled brains with a rubik’s cube boardgame maze and more in week week the 19th in the year’s [...]
Ivy leaguer, folk pop chameleon, musical author, new media guru, with an increasing amount of toes being dipped into activism, Erin McKeown‘s lyrical inkwell often runneth over. So goes the reason why the veteran multi-instrumentalist [...]
Local favorites The Cave Singers ended their 31-date tour with Philly grunge-gaze outfit Bleeding Rainbow at Seattle’s own Showbox at the Market, and the welcome couldn’t have been much warmer. After the openers’ finished their set by unceremoniously [...]
