Barbara Anastacio For a band that's made their name on stately, carefully crafted chamber pop, Brooklyn's Grizzly Bear are surprisingly polarizing. Their proponents find the intricacy of their harmonies, arrangements, and musicianship exquisite while their naysayers just find them dull. I actually lean more towards the latter than the former, but temper it with a healthy amount of respect for what they do and how they do it. So with that frame of reference established, take it for what it's worth when I say their new album Shields [...]
Filed under: News , Exclusive , New Music , Music Appreciation Getty | Getty By now you've probably heard about Spinner AOL's big free NXNE party featuring a headlining set by the Flaming Lips at Yonge-Dundas Square in Toronto. You may have also heard about the other big free shows taking place featuring punk rock legends Bad Religion , Can-rock mainstay Matthew Good , and [...]
Sofia Stolpe NXNE -spotting happens on two levels: there's the micro, where you pore over the year's lineup and try to figure out how you'll spend the four hopefully-warm nights in June club-hopping and seeing bands new and familiar; and there's the macro, where you see how this year's festival as a whole experience measures up against past years and assess how the event is trending as Toronto's flagbearer in a world where cities are increasingly judged by the quality of their music festivals. Or at least, that's how I look at things. I [...]
Liz Flyntz If we can regard Beach House literally as their namesake, which is to say as a holiday getaway, a reliably stolid place to escape from the real world, then the amount of adoration they've gotten for largely sticking to their skeletal formula through four albums now is understandable. Their fans don't want them to reinvent themselves with each outing; they want that comforting blanket of Victoria Legrand's narcoleptic vocals and whirring keyboard interwoven with Alex Scally's languid slide guitar, and across their first two records - their 2006 self-titled debut and [...]
With February already in full swing, the 2012 music release calendar is really starting to shape up thanks to a jackpot of new albums released this week, and over the past couple of weeks. There are so many new albums that have released this week that decided to split this installment of the Best New [...] Read more, get songs or stream the entire mix on Indie Rock Cafe
This is certainly a big week with some incredibly exciting new releases. Sharon Van Etten drops an introspective follow-up to 2010’s Epic and A Place To Bury Strangers puts out a small shoegaze-y EP before heading out on tour. The rest of the releases, from Of Montreal , Dr. Dog , and Royal Baths , all share a similar psychedelic background, but still manage to stand alone as unique projects. Serpents - Sharon Van Etten // Buy [...]
To celebrate today’s crop of releases, here are new mp3s from Big Sir, Liz Greene, Francis Harris, Mark Lanegan Band, Scott Matthew, of Montreal, A Place To Bury Strangers, the Plimsouls, Pretty Good Dance Moves, Chuck Prophet, Royal Baths, Silver Swans and Sharon Van Etten. Also, vote for your favorite of today’s new releases.
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 is the place for puppies and new music... glad to have ya! These are the actual puppies that Dr. Dog delivered before their last tour. I bet you didn't know that it was a profession AND a band name! A Place To Bury Strangers: Onwards to the Wall EP Air: Le Voyage Dans La Lune Amanda Palmer: Polly Bahamas: Barchords Battles: Dross Clop 1 [vinyl] [...]
Mick Rock I will be the first to admit to not really being able to tell where Bradford Cox's Deerhunter ends and his Atlas Sound begins. I know that the former is ostensibly a band and the latter a solo project, but to my ears the hazy, psychedelic rock that each project produces isn't exactly a world apart. Okay, Atlas Sound is more keys, less guitars, but they're both critically adored and don't really do a lot for me, despite on paper being the sort of thing I should totally dig. [...]
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