Artist: Sleater-Kinney

Hop Along hail from the distant riverside haven of Philadelphia although along with much homegrown music, Tibetan Pop Stars (lifted from forthcoming debut full-length Get Disowned) was constructed in a vacant warehouse (albeit one in the northernmost reaches of the Pennsylvanian city). The track itself bristles with raw and emotive guitars, and is propelled by Frances Quinian's desperation-embalmed vox and the visceral repetition of the refrain: "Nobody deserves you the way that I do." Sounding like Kathleen Edwards letting her every hair down and dribbling her heart out over a chaotic studio session with The Thermals [...]

Besides the usual nonsensical tomfoolery of Portlandia , a recent episode starring St. Vincent's Annie Clark and Modest Mouse's Isaac Brock brought up incredibly important questions for any person trying to raise a "musically cultured" child (or whatever that means). Are Mike + The Mechanics the bane of rock history? Is Whitney's Houston our generation's Dante? Is Harry Nilsson the perfect soundtrack to an intense session of Lincoln Logs? Fred Armisen and Carrie Brownstein would say yes to all of the above, but are they the authorities in musicianship that we should obey? Sure, Brownstein used to be in [...]

all photos by debi del grande What can Carrie Brownstein not do? Co-starring with SNL alum Fred Armisen on IFC's hit series "Portlandia" and fronting the band Wild Flag are just a few of her accomplishments. With two sold out shows at the Echoplex, Portlandia: The Tour came rolling into Echo Park with comedy sketches, music (including Susanna Hoffs from The Bangles performing "Manic Monday" with Armisen and Brownstein), creative videos and audience participation. Surprise guest appearances from Kyle MacLachlan, Kumail Nanjiani—the waiter in the episode "Around the World in 80 Plates"—and keyboardist [...]

Tweet We've already featured Alabama Shakes a few times on the site, but it's time for a formal introduction to one of our Ones To Watch for 2012 . Formerly The Shakes, Alabama Shakes from Athens, Alabama are poised to knock you for a loop like a Mint Julep going straight to your head on a sweltering summer's day. A four-piece made up of Steve Johnson, Zac Cockrell, Heath Fogg, and [...]

If December represented a rather frivolous month filled with excess, intrigue and ATP then January, by (excessively, almost unfairly stark) contrast feels all the more enthusiasm-exhausting, ultimately, utterly dismal. How fitting then that come the first of February, the time by which we'll all presumably be waving white socks in surrender to the relentless sombreness of the worst month of the Gregorian calendar, Wild Flag return to cajole us back into a mirthful sense of worth. Are we in need? To paraphrase the self-professed "veterans", Oh Yeah. Ahead of the quartet's debut UK show at a wet-through [...]

It was only during the end of the SLEATER-KINNEY's career that I got hooked on the grunge-she-trio. Their 'Woods' LP was one of me faves of 2005; 'Entertain', 'Jumpers', 'What's Mine Is Yours' and of course 'Modern Girl' still get high iPod rotation seven years post their birth. The EMMY THE GREAT has also been a fan of the SK, having covered the girls for the last few years. Now the she-singer has roped in the TIM WHEELER to help her perform a fairy tale like rendition of that 'Modern Girl' [...]

En una reciente entrevista para la revista Wired , Carrie Brownstein , vocalista y guitarrista de Sleater-Kinney , se mostró bastante optimista con respecto a una posible reunión del grupo de indie rock que marcó una época en el movimiento feminista punk rock ("Riot grrrl") de mediados de los años 90. Aunque Portlandia, comedia que ella protagoniza en el canal estadounidense IFC, y su grupo Wild Flag ocupan la mayor parte de su tiempo en la actualidad, la artista ha confesado que últimamente ha estado hablando con Corin Tucker , la otra guitarrista y [...]

Don't forget to watch Porlandia when season 2 of the hit comedy debuts tonight!

<!-- --> Click here for download Sounds like: Wild Flag, Bikini Kill Song: Portlandia - Sleater-Kinney - Modern Girl [download here ] What's so good? Are you ready for Portlandia's season premiere tonight? We sure are. Fronted by Fred Armisen and Carrie Brownstein, the show has a recipe for instant [...]

• Sleater-Kinney - Modern Girl

A video preview of the upcoming season of IFC's Portlandia starring Fred Armisen and Carrie Brownstein, and featuring guest appearances by the likes of Eddie Vedder, Kristen Wiig, and Andy Samberg.

Our annual list of late night television's best performances has quickly become an annual exercise in big-upping Jimmy Fallon's music talent booker. Way to go, person responsible for pointing those Studio 6B HD-cameras at our tag cloud: Bang the Fallon gong (btw, there should be a Fallon gong), a full 70% of this list comes from Late Night With Jimmy Fallon 's 2011 archives . [And while we're blanket congratulating Fallon and his staff, please join us in a hat tip to the Roots for making the list's Top Two performances Top Two-ier.] This list is [...]

The next stop on the Gummys express is Your Top 20 Indie Rock Crushes Of 2011; ten females, ten males, one Gosling. Hit the gallery to check out the winners of this award, truly the people's champions when it comes to crushes. Just outside the fray: EMA and Wye Oak's Jenn Wasner for the ladies, Fleet Foxes' Robin Pecknold, Noah Lennox and Kurt Vile for the fellas. And for the person that voted for '3112 in every single category, we'll relay the (paraphrased) wisdom of an old sage as advice; "Failing to fetch me at first, keep encouraged. [...]

It's poetic that after skewering everyone's DJ nights, the Portlandia stars sorta DJ for us. Well, for iTunes. I hope nobody is surprised that they are very good at this. Read More...

Tweet "Who is that anyway?" Answer: Kim Ki O ! Hailing from Istanbul, Turkey, electronic musical duo Kim Ki O (which, if you haven't guessed from my incredibly witty opening sentence, means "Who is that, anyway?" in Turkish) is made up of Ekin Sanaç on synths, keys, vocals, beats and Berna Göl on bass, vocals, beats. The two friends have known each other for over fifteen years, and have been hard at work making music as Kim Ki O since 2006. Their music is [...]

• Stream » ap-i0avpzvnopbz.mp3
• Stream » ap-r15s2a44bgxq.mp3

Wild Flag's eponymous debut record , brazenly great as it may be, came plastered in hints, winks, and nudges to endeavours both previous and precious. Quite literally and indeed physically, a sticker in a hue of lighthouse-glare yellow reels off this previous with the sterile precision of a Wikipedia entry, attracting drifters to Carrie Brownstein and Mary Timony's jagged cliffs of guitar and Janet Weiss and Rebecca Cole's crashing torrents of rhythmic and quintessentially robust rock'n'roll goodness. Live of course, with the quartet darting about on retinas and within (what would indubitably be lecherous and exceedingly inappropriate) touching distance, [...]

[Record Store Recon is a reoccurring segment brought to you by us or brought to us by you. Let's not forget physical media! Let's celebrate it! Send in a photo of your purchase, why you're excited about it, where you got it, and we'll post it for all to see. Is it rare? Is it your favorite record of all time? Is the packaging making you drool? We want to know ,so send 'em in.] Words by Brendan [...]

After delivering several albums with flashes of brilliance but a lack of consistency, mr. Gnome have taken their biggest stride with Madness in Miniature, their third full-length album. Their previous two carried a common plague, where style reigned over substance as memorable hooks failed to form with over-active arrangements or superfluous stylistic pursuits. When mr.

• mr. Gnome - Winter

Feathers are a group of four girls from Brisbane creating infectious lo-fi dream-pop. While some of their songs are lively and upbeat, a large number are darker and based on harmony rather than rhythm. Hunter's Moon is an album full of different moods and well-executed hooks, not to mention some great vocal performances that are

• Feathers - Cruel For Love
• Feathers - Darklands

When we last checked in with Nada Surf , the indie-pop band had released If I Had a Hi-Fi , a collection of covers, that featured takes on tunes from a wide swath of artists that included Spoon, Depeche Mode, Kate Bush and The Moody Blues. As a follow-up, the Brooklyn-based trio return with their first album of original material in four years on January 24 when they release The Stars Are Indifferent To Astronomy. The group will play a hometown album release show that very same night at the Bowery Ballroom. Nada Surf will then hit [...]

Por Bárbara Pavan Cuando las mujeres no eran más que simples pop stars y Melanie Griffith era el símbolo de todo lo que es Girl Power con su secretaria ejecutiva, en 1988, las mujeres comenzaban a sentirse intranquilas mientras una tercera ola del feminismo pasaba demasiado tiempo debatiendo cuestiones filosóficas sobre el sentido del género y miles de ellas vivían situaciones agobiantes en el trabajo y en el hogar. Después de años de lucha, las mujeres aún seguían siendo un pedazo de carne, y esto aplica también a la música. [...]