The Maccabees have been making waves in the indie (and not so indie) world since the release of their 2012 album Given To The Wild . Not only were the old Wall Of Arms fellas from London rocking our world so early this year already, but they've decided to just say "to hell with it" and booked an upcoming show on MTV. Yup, everyone is talking about these guys already and we're quite proud of how well they've progressed since 2009. The video for The Maccabees' first single, "Into the Wild", features [...]
From a person who absolutely loved Animal Collective's Merriweather Post Pavilion , the arrival of Brothertiger 's Golden Years has an eerily similar texture. The project of Ohio-native John Jagos hasn't proven to be as off the wall as the oddly-named foursome of Animal Collective, but the outward reaching, spacey moments capture a bit of the zaniness that's so damn contagious. In anticipation of the March 27 release of Golden Years from Mush Records , Brothertiger used the talents of with Kiki Allgeier and David Ambrose to produce a spandex-friendly video for "Lovers." [...]
Siri has been criticized for many things, including taking a stand against abortion , not being understood in Scotland , and even landing on a Flaming Lips track . Heck, with the iPhone 4s being the hottest item on the market and talks about Siri coming on board the highly anticipated iPad 3, Siri remains an important feature of the iPhone, particularly while multitasking. It's quite understandable that Siri befuddles herself on occation, afterall, our leading artificial intelligence is not prone to being mistake free. We've got a long way to go, and I'm sure [...]
Welcome to our new feature, the Weekly Download! Rather than confuse you with five weekdays worth of random tracks, we are now featuring all of those complely free and legal tracks sent to us by the artists themselves for download once a week, albeit more all at once! We hope you enjoy our weekly submissions. We chose these songs for you to discover, download and explore more about the artists behind them. Please support the artists by visiting their artist links next to each of the MP3s. The Foreign Tides - Daddy's [...]
Photo by Lisa Schaffer Raphael Cutrufello's country/folk band Hezekiah Jones rocked out at Johnny Brenda's this past Saturday night, February 4th. Eight musicians filled the relatively small stage, including a keyboard player, violinist, and harmonica player, in addition to the typical drums/bass/guitar instrumentation (although in this case there were three guitars). The ever-changing Philadelphia-based outfit bears resemblance to folk-rock greats like Simon and Garfunkel, a folk-ified Velvet Underground, and even The Beatles in terms of absurd tempo and time signature transformations. Cutrufello's heartwarming stories came alive the other night through tight-knit guitar-picking, sizzling keyboard work, wailing [...]
One of the most fruitful weeks yet this year for new music releases. We're proud to feature Philadelphia's own Dr. Dog whose Be The Void is out today. We're quite excited about this album, not only because they're from Philly, but their last effort Shame Shame featured some great tracks such as "Jackie Wants A Black Eye" and "Where'd All The Time Go". Lots more to get to this week including The Twilight Sad with their creepy-titled No One Can [...]
This track presses one to believe that a four-person band from a middle American city had a great idea and just formed a band. The real truth comes with facts such as, Belgian-born Wouter De Backer writes, sings, plays drums, percussions and keyboards, and also produced this track. "Eyes Wide Open" did use the talents of other musicians, but the some man behind the music goes by Goyte (gore-ti-yeah). Gotye just released Making Mirrors on December 6. Check out his website and his tour dates that [...]
As part of the Just Like Honey Charity Cover Compilation, this track from Oh Minnows enhances the original from the Jesus and Mary Chain's Psychocandy album. Does it sound familiar? This track has appeared in several soundtracks as well - Lost in Translation , Zack and Mira Make a Porno and I Melt with You . We're true fans of Oh Minnows now as we featured "Everyday" as a Song of the Week last year and routinely spin their For Shadows album. Proceeds benefit Breast Cancer [...]
This past year, we breezed by Tiesto's Allure, Kiss From The Past album and are only realizing now that we should have possibly focued a little less on our bazillions of Adele remixes and stuck to this solid album. We highly recommend just purchasing the whole darn thing off of iTunes , but give "My Everything" featuring Kate Miles What's the Weekend Burn? It's MUF's way of keeping the fire in your weekend alive. Read more Not the weekend? Our new [...]
As the days breeze by us here, the dark, wintery nights make for the best sleep. What better to compliment your nightly voyage to dreamland than these sweet and concise 32.5 minutes of sleep music , indie style? This list was purely based around our #1 track from 2011 which you can check out here if you haven't visited our Top 100 yet. Enjoy a good night's sleep with this list. We recommend playing these tracks in the order you see them. MP3: Lissie - Everywhere I Go [...]
We know you lost sleep over the course of last month, waiting patiently, racking your brain to see what we could possibly list as our favorite albums of 2011. We lost sleep too, compulsively checking our lists twice and perhaps after a fist fight or two, we settled on 25 firm choices. After all, who listens to as much music as us? Who actually has time to listen to put together a valid top 25 list with no filler? We're fairly certain that most other sites don't include at least a handful of the albums listed on none other [...]
If you haven't heard Lana Del Rey 's "Video Games" by now, we have a problem. The sudden stardom began last Summer and her track appeared more often than not on year-end lists. Her album Born to Die doesn't really have too much riding on it since people love her already, and so do we. Oh, and the other groups we mention this week just so happened to be incredible awesome - just check out the mp3s below. Exdetectives come from out of nowhere with Take My Forever . This solo project of [...]
There's nothing like a good scrub-a-dub-dub, according to Turn Off Your Television . Their track "I Just Cleaned The Floor" is not only partially comical, but melodically soothing to pair with your cleaning histeria. More Turn Off Your Television can be found on their official website . Turn Off Your Television - I Just Cleaned The Floor For more Songs of the Week from previous weeks, go here .
It wasn't too long after singer/songwriter Ryan Tennis moved back to Philadelphia in 2008 and put out a self-titled EP in 2009 that he started gaining some forward momentum, initially turning heads with his charmingly optimistic single "To the Moon". Tennis's emotionally candid and melodically well-crafted tunes are low-key yet have springs to their step, reminiscent of Ryan Adams or an acoustic Dave Matthews. His latest release, Good Bye to the Ground , served in part as a fundraiser with non-profit group The Philadelphia Sessions, and made it possible for him to tour Latin America in early 2011. The [...]
Bear In Heaven was just another band with the word 'bear' in it a year ago and now they've pawed themselves into the limelight with their upcoming new album titled, I Love You, It's Cool . Sure, this album may be either the funniest title I've seen in some time or they're just that cool. Judging by their new song, "Reflection Of You", we're starting to believe the latter. Kudos, bear friends. Kudos. I Love You, It's Cool [...]
Hello everyone and welcome to the 4th full week of January. This week we have quite an interesting array of artists whether you're looking to get tripped out visiting Gonjasufi's webpage or listening to some dance beats from Visionquest . But let's kick it off with our most anticipated artist, Nada Surf , who's lengthy-titled album Stars Are Indifferent to Astronomy . We're excited to get our dirty paws on this one. Their last album If I Had A Hi-Fi (2010) really fit out fancy. We think this should [...]
L-R: Camila Grey, Leisha Hailey Not too long after Camila Grey and Leisha Hailey released their debut record Common Reaction in '08 and quickly gained critical acclaim as a hot new electro-pop band, they split from their record label, and subsequently disconnected themselves from the managerial amenities previously available to them. This artist/label divorce drove Grey and Hailey to do some serious soul-searching in terms of how they wanted their creative voice to manifest from then on. After spending several months getting back in touch with their fundamental musical inspirations, most visceral [...]
Los Angeles electro/pop duo Uh Huh Her, formed by Leisha Hailey and Camila Grey in 2007, released their second full-length album, Nocturnes , this past October. The record boasts a collection of songs that are well-ingrained in darkness, but that's not to say that a little light doesn't shine through in a few melodic and lyrical corners. Some subtle and conspicuous light/dark parallelism resides beneath the electro-techno licks, melismatic 'Ehs' and 'Ahs', organ-based intros, and Radiohead-esque extros. Overall, the album's very listenable beats and deeply poetic lyrics make it a step in the upward direction compared to Hailey and [...]
For Philly-based Alt-rock outfit June Divided, a chance in the spotlight came quickly and unexpectedly after having formed as a band in early 2010. Since the release of their EP The Other Side of You in February of last year, the group, composed of guitarist/singer Melissa Menago, guitarist/keyboardist Chris Kissel, drummer Keith Gill, and bassist TBA (bassist Rich Mancinelli having recently split from the band), has made a music video of the song "Bullet", played on NBC's The 10 Show, drove across the country to play SXSW, and rocked out at the 2011 Warped Tour. "When [...]
Seattle-based folk band Ivan and Alyosha have racked up a considerable amount of praise for their 2011 EP Fathers Be Kind. They played about 150 shows around the US in support of the album, opening for the likes of Brandi Carlile, Aimee Mann, and Hey Rosetta!. Since the release of their first EP, The Verse, The Chorus in 2009, their sharp rise in notoriety when NPR featured them in their All Songs Considered preview of SXSW 2010, and the success of their second EP, the quartet has started writing and recording their first full-length album. The group, whose [...]
Music Under Fire
The Shins: “September” (b-side of “Simple Song” 7”)
St. Vincent - 'Cheerleader'
Jay-Z & Kanye West - Ni**as In Paris (Explicit)
OK Go - Needing/Getting - Official Video
M.I.A. - Bad Girls (Official Video)
Miike Snow – Paddling Out (Jacques Lu Cont Remix)
