Pictured: We all have hooks for hands saved latin, what did you ever do?
This song is my new official anthem for summer. I’m going to someday get enough friends to sing this on my porch and have them all laugh and sing along as I strum an acoustic guitar. Then a couple other cool dudes […]
Pictured: Mouthful of Bees are too cool for study hall.
Afternoon Records of the twin cities has been garnering some attention as of late. The DIY attitude, and rollicking, fun attitude that pervades all the bands on the label is best exemplified by Mouthful of Bees.
In their debut album, “The End” MoB use a mix […]
Hmm, how do I put this? If you like the band Smog, you will like this solo release from the band’s creator, Bill Callahan, quite a bit, but probably not as much as you like Smog. If you do not like the band Smog, you will dislike Bill Callahan’s “Woke On A Whaleheart,” but you […]
Pictured: Aqualung, the saddest little eskimo.
In Pressure Suit, Matt Hales does his best Thom Yorke and Coldplay impressions. There is soaring guitar, there are chanted vocals, in the video he gets his hair all windblown. It is all pretty artsy. Especially for a guy who has made his career on extremely safe, squeaky clean pop.
Now, I’m […]
Dear The National,
I want to let you know that I think you strained far too hard to write a song about living in New York. I mean, c’mon man, it’s easy. Just sing about how there are so many people, and skyscrapers, the Statue of friggin’ Liberty! Maybe namedrop TRL and get that joint on […]
Leave me the fuck alone. Let me like that fucking record. How is it hurting you?
Tiny Mix Tapes posted a really great interview with Martin Freeman from the UK Office. It’s about record-collecting, the evils of the mp3 format, The Band…a bunch of stuff. Read it here.
Pictured: Ryan Gosling battles Eddie Murphy for Oscar Gold.
Occasionally there are soundtracks that open your mind and heart to music that your friends have been listening to for years. It could be because you just haven’t listened that carefully before, or it could be because you are a giant prick (this is usually my case), […]
Sonny and Cher sang, “Put your little hand in mine, there ain’t no hill or mountain we can’t climb.”
Cash and Carter sang, “The taste of love is sweet, when hearts like ours meet.”
Howard and Crisp sing, “In the dead of night you better hold onto your loved ones. The rumor is the truth, the furies […]
This is my favorite song on the new Deerhoof album. It has plenty of what I love about the band–John Dietrich’s guitars and Greg Saunier’s drums–and not too much what I’m not 100% about–Satomi Matsuzaki’s vocals.
The guitar chords that introduce the song are brooding; preparing. They are porcupines patrolling the edge of their forest, preparing […]
With just a few more steps, “What the Hell Do I Know?,” could easily be a really good time, with big, bright hooks and bubble gum melodies. But Illinois knows better.
The four-piece, actually from Pennsylvania, skillfully weaves a certain gloomy melancholy into their otherwise shiny indie-pop songs. The result is a survey of emotions not […]
Pictured: Field Music is as pale, skinny, and British as you’d expect.
Field Music are a band that is content to experiment in areas of music that have been experimented in since the late 70s. That’s not to say that their experiments are bad, they certainly are not. It’s like in physics when you were testing […]
In a perfect world, one where you never have to wake up to go to work at 2pm after going and seeing the premier of Spiderman 3 last night, you’d all climb into my bus at 4pm on a 70 degree day, I’d drive us all down to a vacant river and we’d tie our tubes […]
Pictured: Silversun Pickups, they know at least one more girl than most shoegaze bands.
Silversun pickups play sort-of-shoegaze-esque, indie rock. They have guitars that sometimes sound like they were recorded in the bottom of The Edge’s deepest cavern of reverb. They have a drummer who sort of just hits an occasional cymbal for […]