Blog: BUZZGRINDER

I'm glad I stumbled upon the music of Emily Jane White , who has a new album coming out May 22 titled Ode to Sentience on Antenna Farm Records. The entire album is streaming on her website , where you'll find 11 tracks of breathy, haunting melodies and minimalist instrumentation. [via Paul M. Davis ]

:: Mogwai announced some U.S. tour dates . :: Foo Fighters will be busy at the Grammys this Sunday. :: Pure Love (Frank Carter's new band) will record with Foo Fighters producer Gil Norton . :: Ben Weinman of Dillinger Escape Plan tried out for Nine Inch Nails back in the day, but he didn't play a single note .

Silverstein - Short Songs Release date: February 7, 2012 I've never heard these guys, but I can only assume that no matter how good they actually were, they were terrible. After all, they were on Victory during the label's great decline in the early 2000s. Whatever their quality, few things scream rock and roll more than broken guitars and a grungy sans serif.

:: Chi Cheng of the Deftones is showing some signs of recovery . :: Sleigh Bells will be playing on SNL on Feb 18th. :: CD Baby artists got 77% of their digital revenues from the iTunes Store . :: The royalties are starting to roll in from Apple's iTunes Match . :: Lisa Coverdale is interviewed in this weeks, Girls Don't Like Metal column by Natalie Zina Walschots.

Bleached is made up of the Clavin sisters - Jennifer and Jessica - who previously played in Mika Miko . This time around, however, things are less raucous. Jennifer told the Washington Post: I mean it doesn't feel as punk. Bands that are punk, they don't really have plans. [With Mika Miko] it was just, let's start a band and play music. And now we're actually trying to write good songs and caring a little bit more. Before we didn't really care .

Did Get Up Kids singer Matt Pryor know that Something to Write Home About would go on to be such an important album? Anybody who says that they were making an "important" album is either an idiot or an asshole. You're just trying to make a good record. How it's interpreted throughout history is not up to you at all. It's completely up to everyone else. I don't know that what we did is important. I've been told by lots of people that they like it and [...]

• The Get Up Kids - Holiday

:: The video for Bombay Bicycle Club 's How Can You Swallow So Much Sleep took six months to film. :: It's like history class, only cooler: 10 bewilderingly underrated post-punk bands you need to hear . :: When Shelby Earl talks about an artist (in this case, Jonsi ), you should pay attention . :: Metallica is doing an indie rock music festival in Atlantic City, N.J.

Cheap Girls played a few songs for Nervous Energies , including their latest single, Communication Blues . The band's third album, Giant Orange , comes out Feb. 21 on Rise Records. You can hear the album version of Communication Blues over at Spin.

Not only did The Seedy Seeds give us this badass video to premiere, they also gave us the lowdown on how it contains, as they put it, "Nostrodamus-level sorcery." It's a magical video on its own, but it's even more magical when you know the story. Here's a bit of a backstory, since this kind of popped up. We contacted the director, Dominik, in the middle of 2010 to make a video for Telephone the Constrictor . We wanted stop-motion, he had done some great work, we were pumped, [...]

Back in June 2011, East Hundred self-released The Spells . The Philadelphia band recorded the album live in the studio as a full band. The band was recently nominated for Indie Pop Rock Band/Artist of the Year by Tri-State Indie, with a big awards show happening Feb. 26. "It's pretty rad to be nominated," Will told Buzzgrinder, "and be listed amongst so many other great regional musicians." East Hundred will be doing a live DVD/audio recording in early spring at a local [...]

:: Taylor Hawkins ( Foo Fighters ), Brann Dailor ( Mastodon ), Navene Koperweis ( Animals as Leaders ) and tons more have been nominated in the Modern Drummers Readers' Poll . :: Jesse Leach is back in Killswitch Engage . :: Hüsker Dü's Zen Arcade makes Fred Armisen's playlist at the LA Times. :: VEVO not paying indie labels ? Gee, who would have thought? :: Every song from every Super Bowl Commercial .

Jessica Dobson ( Beck , Spoon , Yeah Yeah Yeahs ) is working with The Shins on their new album, 'Port of Morrow.' Also of importantance, her band Deep Sea Diver is putting out 'History Speaks,' later this month. While you're waiting, listen to a new track from the album, ' You Go Running .'

Neal Morgan , who has drummed for both Joanna Newsom and Bill Callahan , released his second album recently. The record, In the Yard , consists of no instruments except drums, some percussion, a reedy spoken-word voice and an array of intricate backing vocals. The limitations posed by this formula might seem rigid, but the record is a respectable accomplishment - especially considering tracks like Father's Day and Thinking Big . But you don't have to take our word for it. You can listen to a full stream [...]

:: Bon Iver performed two songs on SNL over the weekend. :: Revival Tour (Chuck Ragan, Tom Gabel, Dan Andriano, and Nathaniel Rateliff) was announced . :: Here's some Katy Perry videos of her performance before the Super Bowl. :: In Las Vegas? No? Well, you're going to miss the Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Beauties & Beats later this month. Black Lips will headline, with J. Roddy Walston & The Business , Little Hurricane , White Denim [...]

Jon Bunch of Sense Field , Reason to Believe and (briefly) Further Seems Forever recently discussed why he started singing ("The reason why I sang was because I didn't have an instrument."), breaking away from his early "scene" days, ("I didn't want to play shows where it was predominately a gang fight.") and the inspiration behind his lyrics: I'm singing to the broken people because I'm a broken person. I'm right there with all the rest of the [...]

:: Lemuria released a video for Wise People . The video required " 50 takes of the song , from 5 different camera set ups, all in an arc," says Director Paul Cummings. :: Saves the Day frontman Chris Conley performed two songs for AbsolutePunk's Backstage Sessions. :: PunkNews " reported " that Gaslight Anthem is tweeting about recording. And I just added to the echo chamber. :: An instrumental Deerhunter song, Curve , is streaming [...]

Thrice - At: Guitar Center vinyl Release date: January 31, 2012 In contrast to Thrice's interesting covers like Vheissu , we have this dud. No matter - fanboys would buy their Ziplocked poop.

:: Members of R.E.M., The Drive-By Truckers and others are squaring off against Walmart in their hometown of Athens, Ga. :: Lamb of God 's new album No Resolution debuted at number 3 on the Top 200 Billboard Chart. :: Sri Lankan siren M.I.A. released a new song from her upcoming album called Bad Girls . :: Protest the Hero will hit the road with Periphery for a spring tour. :: [...]

The "new music" to "cryptic imagery" ratio is a little backward, but what can you expect from Maps and Atlases ?

Hightide Hotel is asking for donations in exchange for the recent Secret Somethings Vol. 3 EP . Every dollar made from sales on Bandcamp will go to the Kristen Brooks Hope Center, a non-profit organization behind the 1-800-SUICIDE distress hotline. An extended edition of the EP with live tracks and alternate recordings is also available to donors. Secret Somethings: Vol. 3 by Hightide Hotel