Howler may be one of the most aptly-named bands of recent memory. Based out of Minneapolis, Minnesota, the quintet is American Rock-n-Roll in its purest form. Their debut full-length album, America Give Up , is the first solid album, front-to-back, that I've heard this year and is incredibly impressive; the band meshes together incredibly well, making it difficult to believe they formed a mere two years ago in 2010. The album features a distinct range of sounds, usually finding a balance between upbeat, garage rock and laid-back, dreamy pop music, with a lot of the songs [...]
Every once in awhile the Brits steal our homegrown bands beneath our noses, promoting some of the best in America without us even knowing. It happened with the Strokes , and now it's happening with Howler , a Minneapolis group. They're record America Give Up comes out next week via Rough Trade , and it's a pretty solid collection of pop tracks. NPR even praised it as an album full of stand alone singles, so I had to give it the good [...]
Alabama Shakes ou le retour d'une soul qui vous file la chair de poule. Et on n'exagère pas en affirmant que la frontwoman du groupe Brittany Howard , au chant et à la guitare, a une énergie qui défie celle de Tina Turner , une intensité au moins égale à celle de Janis Joplin , un rythme et un phrasé que seul Otis Redding savait nous servir. Ce groupe d'Athens, Alabama (anciennement The Shakes ) s'est formé un peu par hasard il y a deux ans, lorsque [...]
Wow, this really is something. I've spent the better part of my evening watching this Rough Trade session featuring Warpaint. Warpaint's label over in the United Kingdom is as you can guess, Rough Trade. In total there are four videos, which I've embedded here clearly and they're all so well shot and this is pretty [...]
Dangerous Minds says, "Do It Yourself: The Story Of Rough Trade is a fascinating glimpse into the history of the seminal indie label/empire." and I couldn't agree more. I watched this over the weekend and loved it. Check it out!
I'm spending my lunch hour watching Do It Yourself: The Story of Rough Trade.
I My Morning Jacket da Louisville (in Kentucky) da tempo non sono più un gruppo di nicchia , i loro ultimi dischi nelle classifiche USA e UK hanno conosciuto un'ascesa vertiginosa che probabilmente porterà quest'ultimo Circuital in top10, per quel che conta. Una fama culminata, con un sottile rapporto causa/effetto, nell'apparizione nel film di Crowe Elisabethtown , dove i My Morning Jacket (da qui in avanti MMJ) hanno interpretato una cover band dei Lynyrd Skynyrd, soggetto quanto mai calzante. Circuital , che uscirà in europa per la [...]
Proof that democracy doesn't always trump tyranny.
Sembra che ci sia già da dover mangiarsi le mani, dato che al momento, nel contesto del tour europeo che Alela Diane affronterà da qui a breve, non è ancora prevista una data italiana. Un gran peccato, perché, dopo il buon successo di To Be Still , il ritorno della songwriter californiana gronda di stile e classe, che meritano assolutamente di essere godute da sotto un palco e non semplicemente da una poltrona e un paio di cuffie. Ritorno, dunque, ma con parecchi cambiamenti, dato che la line up che affronta le undici [...]
[photos by Joshua Trupin ] Three years is an eternity is the music business. It was the Spring of 2008 when British Sea Power last played in the US - a wild gig at Maxwell's that we captured in all its glory. The show was a typical end-of-tour no holds barred event that featured much crowd participation and some crowd-surfing by the band. Since that tour, BSP has released a soundtrack and a six-song EP, and they are back in 2011 with a new album, Valhalla Dancehall ( Rough Trade Records [...]
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Rough Trade Records has announced a 123 split vinyl record release with new tracks from Burial and a Four Tet/Thom Yorke collaboration. Details are as follows: "No details are given except for the fact it's black label, housed in a plain black bag. The A-side is by Burial, and called 'Ego', the B-side is a Four [...]
In case you haven't heard, The Strokes have a new album coming out. Today, they've got their first single for listening "Under Cover Of Darkness," which you can download entirely free at their website here. Add in some annoying personal information and they'll email it over to you. They're new album Angles is slated to [...]
La splendida voce di Colin Meloy (ricordi Colin Meloy sings, live ?) e un songwriting tipicamente british-folk anni 60, sono i tratti che meglio di qualsiasi altra cosa caratterizzano i Decemberists . Questo non a caso, visto che Colin ha un convinto background tipicamente folk, giustificato dalla militanza in diverse formazioni alternative country, prima di tornare alla Portland natale e fondare il suo gruppo più famoso. The King is Dead è il sesto album dei Decemberists (più una discreta serie di EP) ed esce ufficialmente oggi per la Rough Trade . E' un [...]
So 2010 has left us and 2011 is brand spanking and new and maybe a little too bright to be looking directly at quite yet so instead, a casual look back. Not so much a best of list as is customary at these times, but instead a highlight, a best of list of one. There were several times last year that I wanted to ramble at length about my growing love for Warpaint, and that is on top of the two posts I couldn't hold myself back from so consider [...]
Dopo la data estiva dello scorso 25 luglio ad Arezzo i Belle And Sebastian tornano per presentare il nuovo disco, Write About Love, ottavo lavoro di studio, uscito il 12 ottobre via Rough Trade subito entrato in top ten della classifica Inglese. Il nuovo lavoro di Stuart Murdoch & Co arriva a quasi cinque anni di distanza da The Life Pursuit, album anch'esso finito in top ten in UK e che ha venduto oltre un quarto di milione di copie in tutto il mondo. Continua a leggere Belle And Sebastian: in Italia [...]
Rough Trade Records' Warpaint have just announced a return to UK/Irish shores in the form of a May 2011 tour. If you haven't heard the sound of this stunning quartet yet, jump on the bandwagon and download an MP3 below. The LA four-piece, consisiting of Emily Kokal (vocals/guitar), Theresa Wayman (guitar/vocals), Jenny Lee Lindberg (bass/vocals) and Stella Mozgawa (drums), have recently toured the US coast to coast alongside Mercury Prize winners The XX. The announcement of these 2011 UK and Ireland dates come hot on the heels of their recent sold-out headline shows in the UK, [...]
Today sees the global release of Twin Shadow 's debut, Forget , out on Rough Trade Records. The album was "written in a Brooklyn apartment over a series of many months, the record was recorded and produced by Grizzly Bear's Chris Taylor, who originally released the album in the US on his own label, Terrible Records." Describing his debut, Twin Shadow main man George Lewis Jr. says: "It's bedroom music, but it's been done with the same attention as many classic B-movies. It's not like a slapdash home video though; it's [...]
Hace algún tiempo, cuando les anunciamos los detalles del nuevo EP de British Sea Power les comentamos que todavía no había mucha información de su nuevo álbum, del que únicamente sabíamos sería lanzado en enero del siguiente año. Ahora sabemos que esta placa, publicada a través de Rough Trade Records , llevará por (¿extraño?) nombre Valhalla Dancehall , y que fue grabado en Sussex y una de las islas escocesas de Skye, con la producción de Graham Sutton (quien también colaboró con ellos en Man of Aran [...]
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