Here’s the video for “The Letter” from the Veils‘ latest album, Sun Gangs (Rough Trade). And that’s frontman Finn Andrews in the fedora, looking like Johnny Depp’s understudy for the role of John Dillinger in Public Enemies.
Ever wonder what will happen during the last five minutes of late-night TV talk shows? Here are tonight’s notable performers: Late Night With Jimmy Fallon (NBC): Iron And Wine Sub Pop released Around The Well today, a collection of Sam Beam’s early recordings, b-sides and covers (including the Flaming Lips’ “Waitin’ For A Superman” and [...]
John Wesley Harding knows when he gets an email, phone message or a piece of postal junk addressing him as “John,” it’s coming from someone who’s never met him. He’s known to friends as “Wes,” since his real name (the one he uses in his second career as an award-winning author) is Wesley Stace. Harding’s [...]
Somewhere between Death Cab and Death Vessel, 21-year-old Canadian singer/songwriter Andy Shauf is aching in all the places your Elliott Smith CDs used to occupy. Shauf’s halted, bedroom-recording voice and acoustic fingerpicking is all over full-length Darker Days (due May 19 on the P Is For Panda label). But you know what we really like [...]
Once upon a time, Green Day was the little punk band that could, a heart-on-sleeve manifestation of the fiercely indie Berkeley music scene hovering around 924 Gilman St. back in the ‘80s (along with contemporaries Rancid and Pansy Division) and indefatigable champions of the “loud fast rules” associated with punk’s decades-old orthodoxy. Twenty years, eight [...]
John Wesley Harding knows when he gets an email, phone message or a piece of postal junk addressing him as “John,” it’s coming from someone who’s never met him. He’s known to friends as “Wes,” since his real name (the one he uses in his second career as an award-winning author) is Wesley Stace. Harding’s [...]
A less likely rock star than M. Ward hasn’t come down Oakland’s Nimitz Freeway in many a moon. With an almost awkward stage presence that kept the between-songs chatter to a bare minimum, and a “Forrest Gump’s box of chocolates” kind of singing voice, Ward relied heavily on his startling talent with the guitar and [...]
Well, it’s a near-premiere; the video for “I’m Falling” (from Robyn Hitchcock‘s latest album, Goodnight Oslo) showed up on YouTube unannounced. And it’s rude to show up unannounced, so we’re announcing it now. Is it Peter Buck’s best teardrop-flavored guitar jangle in years? Stare into the eye of the pyramid and find out.
Ever wonder what will happen during the last five minutes of late-night TV talk shows? Here are tonight’s notable performers: Late Show With David Letterman (CBS): White Rabbits It’s a blessing and a curse to have someone like Spoon’s Britt Daniel produce your band’s record and be taken under his wing as an opening act. [...]
John Wesley Harding knows when he gets an email, phone message or a piece of postal junk addressing him as “John,” it’s coming from someone who’s never met him. He’s known to friends as “Wes,” since his real name (the one he uses in his second career as an award-winning author) is Wesley Stace. Harding’s [...]
