Outside of the boys’ headline-grabbing current events – the highly rock-and-roll antics of meth possession and hitman-hiring, or the sadder, real-life issues of dementia – you know what you’re going to get with AC/DC. Namely, […]
As mentioned already on NPR’s First Listen, The Best Day is really the first time Sonic Youth mastermind Thurston Moore’s addressed his band-splitting, 27-year-marriage-ending divorce. You know, the one that triggered an onslaught of Jezebel-endorsed, […]
Foxygen have made a name for themselves with a clever portmanteau moniker and a hefty dose of 60s nostalgia. However, there’s not a lot more to their style, which seems to trigger over-compensation with superfluous, extended noise […]
In college, while discussing music with some new friend-quaintances, one of them dared to blurt out “Weezer sucks.” While I was quick to pounce on this blasphemy and defend indie-emo’s founding older brothers, he was […]
The Rural Alberta Advantage may be one of the less recognizable acts in the Saddle Creek roster, but they are just as beloved as Bright Eyes or Cursive. Armed with a frontman boasting a Jeff Mangum-ish nasally delivery, paired […]
Seattle does electronic music festivals a bit differently than your typical Miami or Ibiza dead teenager bonanza. The city’s premier Decibel Festival, in its 11th year, is a testament to that. While they’ve booked international […]
A buddy of mine told me about Seacats well over a year ago. He worked at the local label to which they’re signed – Fin Records – and it was easy to cynically write them […]
Too Bright may be Perfume Genius‘ (a.k.a. Mike Hadreas) third album, but still it feels like this dude came out of nowhere. Maybe it’s because, while as a society, we can accept gay men, we’re only […]
Ahh, the journalistic goldmine that only a washed-up, self-parodying act with unmatched misplaced self-importance can provide. From U2‘s new position as the Apple house band, to the automatic (and un-consensual) addition of their new album to your […]
El Pintor is as Interpol as they’ve ever been. Perhaps that’s why, given that they’d already done a self-titled, they went with an anagram of their band name for this record, their fifth. Banks is […]
