This song by Sheffield's Standard Fare makes me think of girls with dangling sleeves swaying in sweaters. Coy and shy, but still harboring a voice that can shake the walls. It's the kind of bouncing Pop tune that will get Emma Kupa and company a nice place on your favorite sunshiny playlist. Click on share to [...]
In which most videos are full of ladies with inscrutable issues that remain quite unknown after repeated viewings even. Tame Impala saves the day. Get More: www.mtvu.com -Matt
After one listen to Here, the latest LP from Edward Sharpe & The Magnetic Zeros, the song "Child" was the one I found myself wanting to repeat. It might be the soft and tender nature of the track, the way Alex Ebert's voice quivers when he repeats the words at the end of several lines, [...]
Cub Scouts are another talented band from the endless well of cool bands the Australian indie-pop scene seems to have at its disposal. Their single "Evie" was on my 2011 list of favorites, and the song "Do You Hear" won the Queensland Music Awards Song of the Year award as well. Frontman Tim Nelson has that [...]
Charleston, South Carolina quintet Elim Bolt remind me of the more straightforward moments on Arcade Fire's 2010 mega-hit The Suburbs, with some Southern flavor stirred in. The guitars are epic and echoing, their harmony big enough to reverberate through an arena rock concert or melt your face at an intimate venue while you're rendered helpless [...]
Lord Huron isn't a new name at TWJ, but they are new as certain additions to my top albums/songs of the year. They released three solid EPs in the past few years, but Lonesome Dreams, is on another level. Think about about Fleet foxes, Band of Horses, and Panda Bear mixed up with an authentic sound that [...]
A steady, day-long rain had just ended, and those who attended the 2009 Austin City Limits music festival were soggy and slogging around to find their acts of choice in the dampened evening air. That was my introduction to Becky Stark's clear and powerful voice, which gave life to a character from The Decemberists' concept [...]
It might be that, late at night, I have some sort of cosmic weakness for catchy, synth-driven electro-pop. Or it could be that Parade of Lights' EP Born To Live, Born To Love is that damn cool. These songs are big and ballsy, with thumping beats and sweeping, echoing vocals that only serve to make [...]
City Brat is Jason Grad, a Wisconsin native now living in Brooklyn and, from the sound of it, creating art and music wherever space is available. Grad has been making densely layered electronic pop music since 2009, when he graduated from Vanderbilt University. "Savage Friends" is full of interesting touches - a few different percussion [...]
As best as I can remember, I started listening to Tegan and Sara because of a girl. Everyone, guy or girl, probably has a band or two like this. But, sucker as I am for heart on sleeve lyrics and well-crafted melodies, these Canadian sisters quickly became far more than just a tool to make [...]
This new track from Canadian psych-rock outfit Royal Canoe is strangely intoxicating. It's the kind of track I imagine would soundtrack some epic dance number where hair and sweat are flying around willy nilly until the breakdown right around the 2-minute mark, where the dancers would sorta creep and crouch before cutting loose once again [...]
There are plenty of days when a little of The Smiths or a dab of Morrissey works wonders. I feel like this is a true and safe thing to say with nary a risk of someone wanting to punch me because of it. If only all thing were said with such comfort. But Morrissey never [...]
Man, I'm easy. Twenty seconds into this glitchy, melodic slice of electronica from Glasgow trio CHVRCHES, and I was totally smitten. The whole damn thing is catchy as hell, and the scope is big from the very beginning. Kudos to this song for rousing me from that all-too-familiar Monday stupor - by the middle of [...]
Besides looking a lot like Patty Smith, Jenny O is really fantastic for several other reasons. 1) She's touring with Father John Misty right now (they are very adorable together). 2) She has a wonderful ability to sing of all things rural and dirt-smoothed, while lilting in a voice that's simultaneously smooth and sweet. Her Home [...]
UK's Echotape whip up a multilateral aerial orchestra in "Spinning". It's half of their double-A side single, "Spinning"/"Awakening"; composed and recorded while the band was camped out in the Sierra Nevada Mountains in Spain. And after you listen to the top side, your body will feel just a little lighter. The music video for "Spinning" was actually part [...]
In which -Ane Brun wears a hoodie with buggers in it -Boldy James never gets to his drank because he's got so many homies -The Staves dole out some sultry justice -Cat Power directs a ...something -And others! -Matt
Despite their intimidating nomenclature, Melbourne duo Big Scary are quite skilled at the quieter, subtler moments in addition to their proficiency at rocking out. The pair of songs we offer from their new album Vacation illustrate that point pretty well. "Gladiator" sports some fuzzed-out electric guitar and clattering percussion that go perfectly with the vocals [...]
I've been following The Lighthouse And The Whaler, four dudes from Cleveland, for a couple of years now. I'm not sure why they've never ended up on TWJ, but that ends today, because "Venice" is an awfully good song. On the surface, TLATW have all the elements that have made The Head And The Heart, [...]
Heems is one piece of the odd-but-talented rap outfit Das Racist, and I gotta say, this new peek at his forthcoming mixtape is pretty stellar. "Let It Go" features a goofy, clever-nonsense cameo from Cee Gee, some trippy, spaced-out production work from Keyboard Kid, and a cool smack snare drum sample. I've repeated it quite [...]
The Wounded Jukebox
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Holy Ghost! "Dumb Disco Ideas"
The Weeknd - Kiss Land
Daft Punk - Random Access Memories Unboxed
Kendrick Lamar - Bitch, Don't Kill My Vibe (Explicit)
MØ - Waste Of Time (Audio)
The National – Graceless
