Canada's Dragonette is making some damn fine tunes lately. Their music is always ants in your pants motivating in the booty-shaking areas of your body, but their third album, Bodyparts, is out on September 25th, full of even more songs that you can unlock your body and move to. As a preview bonus, the band is sharing [...]
There are tour edit music videos, which are the classic way for and band and their pr agency to get some extra headlines while the band is on the road...and then there are videos like this one; done with some thought and quite a bit of editing skill. The video for Future Island's "Grease" uses [...]
There was a crisp chill to the late night air around these parts this weekend, and after listening to the new single from Astronauts, etc., aka Anthony Ferraro, I feel as though my "Fall Is Arriving" soundtrack just got a welcome new addition. Ferraro showed plenty of promise with "Mystery Colours" awhile back, and "You [...]
It's always nice to feature artists from my very own backyard here in Columbus, Ohio. Luxury League is comprised of hip-hop talents from the capital city - three dudes with mutual respect for one another's skills who decided to combine powers, Captain Planet style. The group has built a following in their hometown that continues [...]
"Like I told you..." he says. Jethro Fox acts the sage in his debut 73 single, "Blinding Light". The Liverpool free agent lives in the same expansive, lonesome world as Grizzly Bear, where the two parties must have traded tips and secrets over a camp-fire in a windy praire. The single is properly released 8/20 [...]
Many apologies for the absentia! On with the beauty. -Matt
That moment when you realize the awkward elevator ride is going to be longer than you think. The platitudes you shared just a moment before might have to be respected as the introduction between the two lone inhabitants of a terribly barren planet of greasy linoleum and plywood panels. Elevators are horrible when they're still, [...]
Jo Mango has kept impressive company during her young career, and by all accounts those who have worked with her vouch for her impressive talent. With vocals that rarely rise above a whisper and a sparse, echoing piano melody, Mango communicates this beautiful fragility on "Cordelia" that disarms and comforts all at once. The lyrics [...]
The limbic system is a series of structures in the brain that is thought to control stuff like emotion, behavior and even smell. It's a complex part of our anatomy, the understanding of which is constantly changing. Lymbyc Systym is, of course, interested in musical structures, but the results can have interesting effects on emotion [...]
Generationals, the two NOLA dudes who made an appearance on my list of the best songs of 2011 have a brand new single, and it's awfully purdy. "Lucky Numbers" continues the low-key but upbeat style that made "Ten-Twenty-Ten" a favorite of mine a year ago, with its catchy keyboards and synthesizer grooves, and that guitar [...]
All musicians should have a serendipitous origin tale like the one London quintet Years & Years possess for how their lead singer Olly came to be a part of the band. Turns out Mikey, one of the band's founding members was hanging out at a friend's apartment where Olly was renting a room. Mikey heard [...]
The Swedish band with the French name (translated as Crazy For You), makes pleasantries piled upon a picnic blanket under a sunny afternoon, and conducts them like a magician's apprentice into the twinkling songscapes. The guys are back after a year apart, releasing a double-side, with a wafting "Pick Up Your Phone" on the forefront, [...]
Daniela Gesundheit and Dan Goldman, aka Snowblink, are a talented duo. Their music is easy on the ears, and its sneaky-good - the kind whose melodies creep into your brain without your knowledge, and you find yourself singing some unnamed but familiar tune in the shower the next morning. And then you remember: Oh yes, [...]
I kid you not, the first word to enter my brain after 30 seconds of this new track from The Trouble With Templeton was "Wow." Thomas Calder, the man behind that moniker, has always had obvious vocal talent, and his acoustic guitar-driven ditties were impressive enough. But what is striking about "Six Months In A [...]
The two founding members of Goodnight, Texas - Patrick Dyer Wolf and Avi Vinocur - call different US coasts their home. And as folk music havens go, one could do worse than San Francisco or Chapel Hill, N.C. What the pair have with songs like "Jesse Got Trapped In A Coal Mine" is a simple, [...]
I feel as though my respect for Aesop Rock's immense talent is too often forgotten. The mind gets cluttered with the latest indie ditty or the newest trendy mashup. and people like Ian Matthias Bavitz aka Aesop Rock - those who are consistently some of the best, most inventive artists around - somehow get lost [...]
Spotlight bar performance or bedroom tinkering, the sound of the woman so boldly named is both parts sly and another part brass-knuckled; able to knock you flat if you deign to mistreat her. Her music meanders through some parks and alleys, but always returns home to a cup of tea and a book. "The Score" [...]
Gabi Fröden got to me at the right time as her musical version, Foreign Slippers: just when Monday was looking to be all caffeine and no double-glazed donut (metaphorically speaking, but also literally. Talkin' to you Rachael.). I would absolutely like to follow this woman into a large room of my bestest mates and kill any source of [...]
If the scruffy vendor on the shady side of the street said to me, "Would you like some honey mustard on that?" I would surely say no. "I'll just take the pair of sunglasses." But if that same vendor was selling something musically consumable and from Sweden, I would surely order three and some overpriced [...]
Bite your tongue before you say riot, because this Saskatchewan band has a multitude to offer in the hook department, with some feminine dispositions and a some flannel twang. "Prairie Girl" in particular, gives you all it's able - releasing a whole summer's worth of pent up longing and pillow-punching to some sky-reaching vocal unleashings. Put [...]
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