Via Audio is a fan's band. The music is accessible, the members are approachable, and their stage presence is infectious. Despite long and undoubtedly exhausting hours spent traveling from sea to shining sea, the group has a passion for music that is catching, a feat that cannot be claimed by many on-the-road-and-living-in-a-va n groups.
Ann gives you the lowdown on Timber Timbre, opening for Feist on April 30th, 2012 at the Murat
From the staging of this session and what the band had packed in their arsenal for the performance, no time was wasted doubting whether this one was going to be special. This performance is as intimate as music gets. Elliott BROOD gave us three friends in close quarters of brick and steel, singing songs of rumination and hope, to be broadcast to an audience of God knows what size, but it was precious few for the recording between the brick walls of Big Car Service Center.
I Modena City Ramblers propongono alcune presentazioni tra chiacchere e musica del loro ultimo cd Battaglione Alleato anche attraverso i musi, i luoghi della Resistenza e gli appuntamenti della memoria. I primi eventi sono quelli del 18 aprile a Bologna, del 20 aprile ad Imola, del 23 aprile ad Ascoli Piceno, il 26 aprile a Verona e del 23 maggio a Reggio Emilia. Continua a leggere Modena City Ramblers: le storie del Battaglione Alleato in [...]
Tennis definitely put work into their music but also retain a sense of fun, darning their name as a joking reference to guitarist Patrick Riley's tennis playing days as a college student. Riley and wife Alaina Moore started the band after meeting in college and were later joined by drummer (and obvious third wheel) James Barone, completing the current lineup. Only two years old, the Denver-based trio has made a fair amount of progress up the indie-rock ladder, catching the attention of NPR with their first album, Cape Dory, and having Patrick Carney of The Black Keys produce their second [...]
Every year we run into a few choice "indie anthems" that are deemed digestible enough to make their way onto the mainstream plate. With playful melodies, bouncing rhythms and universal sentiment that anyone with a pulse can relate to or at least appreciate, these anthems are hard to hate, especially when our tapping feet have a tendency to betray any repressed feelings which we believe to be in opposition to our better judgement.
On their fourth album, Arrow, Austin-via-Ohio band Heartless Bastards drive home the statement that they are the torchbearers as the finest purveyors of the new classic rock. The four songs of this Saturday afternoon in-store set at Luna make that downright obvious.
There are toy collectors - usually bloated thirty-something man-children that occasionally emerge from their parents' basements to buy vintage Star Wars figures and metal lunch boxes from their youth - and then there are those who collect "Art Toys," limited edition pop culture items created by world renowned artists like Frank Kozik and Ron English. The ultimate expert in these precious playthings is Miranda O'Brien, co-founder of Clutter Magazine , the online bible of Art Toy collecting. Rocker's West Coast Bureau Chief sat down with her to discuss all things collectable, including Clutter's new, exclusive Pink Reagan [...]
well its a story about a guy and a......bunch of aliens....
If Maps & Atlases is guilty of anything, it's releasing an upbeat single in the middle of what is arguably the most dreary of the four seasons: winter. While most of us are still wallowing in Justin Vernon's "jagged vacance thick with ice," the Chicago-based quartet lures us out of hibernation with a toe-tapping anthem fit for the summer months. These bandmates have undoubtedly had their fair share of unconventional winters, which qualifies them to deliver a message of "salt covered shoes" that leaves fellow Midwesterners nodding in agreement.
Got this is the mailbox the other day and the second I heard the beat I was hooked. STORi is a singer/songwriter from Newark, NJ who is signed to NextDay Ent. This is her latest video. Find out more from her here .
Releasing a full-length album for streaming four months before its official release date is a risky move. Either listeners are going to love it enough to put money down for what they've already had the opportunity to commit to memory, or they'll add it to their "been there, heard that" list and keep the change. Of course, when the stream is nothing but an uncomprehensible drone that spans over a two-thousand seven hundred and nine hour period (because writing it out makes it seem even more unfathomable), its hard to expect that even the most thrifty of listeners will be [...]
Not many bands can boast such a colorful array of instruments as do the Carolina Chocolate Drops. Complete with jugs, bones, harmonicas, and every type of banjo imaginable, CCD creates music so truly and, dare I say it, authentically Southern that it almost makes one feel guilty for living north of the Mason Dixon line.
Having just completed their winter tour of the American West with A Lull, Deleted Scenes stopped by the Big Car Service Center and shared two songs from their latest LP, Young People's Church of the Air. In this session, the D.C. area quartet – consisting of Dan Scheuerman on guitar/lead vocals, Matt Dowling on keyboard, Brian Hospital on drums, and Dominic Campanaro on lead guitar – strip their brand of indie-pop/rock to deliver a tender, yet powerful performance.
We're hoping the differences that New Order has had its entire life can find a way mend once again
Despite all of the chaos and uncertainty that defines our existence on Earth, we still manage to find partnerships that are all but destined to exist; two or more seemingly unrelated entities that, when put together, create something much greater than the sum of the parts. Such partnerships include peanut butter and jelly, French wine and tailored clothing, Lennon and McCartney, the 1972 Miami Dolphins, and Burt Reynolds and the mustache.
This girl gets around. Frankie Rose has had her fingers in a lot of pies (Crystal Stilts, Dum Dum Girls and Vivian Girls, just to name a few), and is now embarking on part deux of her semi-solo adventure. Recently nixing "& the Outs" from the band's name, Frankie proves that she is ready and willing to take center stage without a drum set to hide behind. But that doesn't mean that the songstress is ditching her garage pop roots.
As a glutton for rock & roll of most any sort – whether garage, pop, punk, lo-fi, amplified, hook-laden or ambient, sweaty or meditative, I thirst for just about anything with guitars, drums, a beating heart and voices filled with harmony or something to say. Music of that sort is the kind I can throw myself into with total fandom and immerse myself in the songs, the lyrics and, given a large enough stature and social media blitz, the faces of the band or performer. There are other, more academic and elusive genres I've crept my toes into throughout the [...]
Every once and awhile a good band/song/album/musical movement will pass me by without so much as a "Hello" or "How Are You?". Of course, I take all the blame for these "missed connections," as I was most likely so blindly infatuated with another that I simply could not redirect my ears for even a second (I have a tendency to be a monogamous listener).
Here's a song by STORi in which she gives her take on Queen Latifah's "Just Another Day". It's a pretty smooth arrangement and I love the traces of electronic in this. Also listen to her "Crew Love" remix which made me realize how badly I need to stop singing to the Drake and The Weeknd collaboration in my car... Download Stori Just Another Day Download Stori Just Another Day
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