Just like in high school and college sports, the music industry has become enamored and obsessed with discovering the next profound promise of potential. Originally started in 1987, SXSW has matured and blossomed into the premier talent showcase for musicians around the world. As we journey towards this incredible opportunity, we decided to take an in depth look at some of the thousands of up and coming artists who will be performing. Anyone that has ever been or considered going to experience a massive event like this knows [...]

Sorry about the title of the post, I really had no clue how to even try to connect these two songs other than the fact that they are both songs that you can just stop and listen to. And you should stop and listen to them. Canadian Matt Paxton has a new single from the good folks at Other Songs Music and it is a free download from their Bandcamp page . The song was finalized late last year with the help from [...]

Following a solid run as the editors of Pitchfork experimental sister site Altered Zones , Emilie Friedlander and Ric Leichtung are back with Ad Hoc , an underground music and visual culture publication created for and by a community of music lovers with a shared ethos: that of building the world you want to see using the materials at your disposal. A collective of ten tastemaking music blogs from all over the world, Ad Hoc is a daily destination for MP3s, videos, mixes, interviews, artist's writings, and cultural commentary— curated for quality, and with an emphasis on emerging [...]

Sick Friend - Cottages Think Matt & Kim without all the cutesy bullshit. That's what you'll be getting on Sick Friend 's "Cottages", the opening track from their debut album The Draft Dodger . Take a listen above. If you like it, download it and cherish it deeply for all of time! If you love it, maybe you should marry it... Or pick up Sick Friend's debut album The Draft Dodger [...]
This week proves to have some very interesting releases. For starters, IRS Records returns. Now a division of EMI, the legendary label comes back with a new album from Foxy Shazam entitled The Church of Rock and Roll (pictured). There's also plenty else to be excited about. A new Nada Surf record is totally awesome news, and we can't complain about a heavy one from Lamb of God . Two compilations dedicated to two other great artists, Bob Dylan and Waylon Jennings , also come out. There's certain nothing to [...]

There is a strange and almost contradictory type of freedom that comes with the label of pop music. While the title is sometimes thought of as the enemy and opposite of free expression, there are those who take the term as a simple standard of accessibility in their art, a sort of mantra that says "Art is anything that makes people enjoy life more." In this new age of free media, electronic everything, and D.I.Y ethics becoming more of a necessity than an ethos, pop music has been the favorite vehicle of a large caravan of duos combining programed loops [...]

Hemmingbirds are a Chicago-based quartet who make straight-up indie-rock with bucket loads of passion and energy that has led to them being compared to the likes of Arcade Fire and Death Cab For Cutie. They released their debut LP Death Waves in May 2010 but slow and steady word-of-mouth praise means that the bands profile and reputation continues to grow 18 months on from it's release. We caught up with the band who all pitched in with their Favourite Five choices ... [...]

Stuedabakerbrown has been entertaining fans with a unique blend of rock, indie, and pop for nearly a decade. Since 2001 the band has grown from a Monroe, NY hometown favorite to selling out some of New York City's most notorious rock clubs (The Bitter End, Bowery Poetry Club, etc.) and performing as an opening act for national touring artists such as Say Anything (at SUNY Potsdam), Matt and Kim (at Duke University), Safetysuit, Locksley, Hanson, The Spill Canvas (at Michigan State University), 10 Years, and many more. Their 2010 LP Strangers We'll Become has been hailed as a [...]

The Tree Ring @ San Diego Women's Club by Natalie Kardos . The Tree Ring top my list of top song obsessions for 2011. Frontman Joel P West also appears on the list. Song obsessions are those songs that your brain picks for you, those ear worms that get stuck in your head and have you singing them to yourself or going back to hit repeat on your ipod. I like the idea of reporting what my brain got stuck on each year. Here's the list of the songs that were stuck in [...]

The Tree Ring @ San Diego Women's Club by Natalie Kardos . The Tree Ring top my list of top song obsessions for 2011. Frontman Joel P West also appears on the list. Song obsessions are those songs that your brain picks for you, those ear worms that get stuck in your head and have you singing them to yourself or going back to hit repeat on your ipod. I like the idea of reporting what my brain got stuck on each year. Here's the list of the songs that were stuck in [...]

Nos momentos derradeiros de 2011, nós entrevistamos Jesse Kivel e Zinzi Edmundson , e apesar do assunto principal da conversa ter sido o projeto Kisses , o vocalista Kivel também já havia nos adiantado: o novo álbum de sua outra banda, o quarteto de indie-pop Princeton , abandonaria as influências folk em busca de um som mais dance, como o do próprio duo Kisses . A faixa To The Alps , liberada em 2011, já mostrava essa mudança , agora definitivamente revelada através da [...]

Enero marcará el retorno a nuestro país de The Rapture, defensores del dance punk al estilo del sello DFA. Los norteamericanos tocarán por segunda vez en Chile, luego del show que brindaron en el Teatro Caupolicán en 2007. La banda viene a promocionar los temas de su disco In the grace of your love , editado el año pasado vía DFA, y que representó el regreso del grupo liderado por Luke Jenner, tras la salida de Matt Safer, bajista histórico de los neoyorquinos. El evento producido por Club Fauna se realizará el 24 de enero [...]

Right, so when I thought the Tuesday was going to be dead, surely the Friday before New Years Eve is going to be a quiet one, yeah? I mean, EVERYONE is going to be doing something the next night, people would want to conserve their energy I thought. Instead it was quite the opposite, an absolute TON of people came out in force, and it was one of the biggest guest lists of the year. Perhaps folk were using it as some sort of training for the following night. Whatever the, it was flipping great, and Gigantic was jumping for [...]
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Tweet According to Coachella Valley native Lincoln Jesser, "the overarching goal of the Pace project is to create substantial electronic music that accesses the genuine deeper emotions of fans". That opinion may not seem to have any relevance until it's revealed that Jesser is the man behind the project. And even if his music only manages to sweep you up your feet and dancing like a maniac (the most likely scenario), his goal will have more than been met. [...]

First post of the new year! Ok, ok so it's 2012 and you are probably tired of seeing best of lists already. Well we worked hard on this list and hope you dig it anyway. We have 3 of our correspondents, including myself, who are avid concert goers compile this list. And like most, we begin by struggling to come up with 10 then by the end actually have way more and struggle to narrow it down to only 10! It was so hard to choose, between us this year we have seen Blink-182 , Cloud Nothings [...]

Recommended Show: SATURDAY, DECEMBER 31, 2011 CORN MO @ PARKSIDE LOUNGE 317 E Houston St New York, NY 10002 $35-$75, 8:00PM Welcome to New Year's Eve in New York City, where everything is overpriced! At least Corn Mo gives you some good bonuses--like a bottle of champagne! Deadmau5 @ Pier 36 Los Lobos @ City Winery Corn Mo @ Parkside Lounge Gov't Mule @ Beacon Theatre Gogol Bordello @ Terminal 5 Patti Smith @ Bowery Ballroom [...]
I know it's not Monday and you're hearing from me. To be quite honest, I totally forgot about everything this past week. I suppose the holidays can do that to you. 2011 was a great year for music...for the most part. So just as Ian and Allie have year-end lists, so do I. (By the way, if you have yet to check out Ian's or Allie's posts...be sure to do so!) As I was making lists in my head for this post, I started to realize that only half of my favorite [...]

Words by Brendan and Jim We're so goddamn lucky to live in a city that's boiling over with good local music. It's crazy. And we're only talking about the indie music scene, which means there's even more genres of local music out there for your listening pleasure. Crazy, amiright? 2011 was an intense year for local releases, as you're about to see. It seemed like every other weekend there was a CD Release going down at Brillbox or Club Cafe or The Shop. We tried to get to as many as possible, we swear! [...]

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Se viene el nuevo año de Club Fauna, y el primer gran show será el que se viene el proximo 24 de Enero en industria Cultural con The Rapture y Kim Ann Foxman . Aqui el comunicado oficial: "Foster Presenta: The Rapture + Kim Ann Foxman (Hercules & Love Affair) + Adrianigual @ Club Fauna The Rapture , la banda que tanto nos hizo bailar a mediados de la década recién pasada por poco pasó a la historia, pero no. Tras 5 años de silencio y el abandono en el 2009 [...]