Brooklyn trio Au Revoir Simone recently took to the road to promote its latest pop confection, the keyboard-buzzing beauty Still Night, Still Light. Annie Hart reports: They say everything is bigger in Texas, so when we stopped at the typically mega, jumbo, enormous, ginourmous Fiesta Mart in West Texas for a thousand-mile-overdue oil change, it [...]
As we told you before, Sufjan Stevens premiered The BQE, a film-and-musical suite exploring New York City’s Brooklyn-Queens Expressway, in 2007. It will be out as a CD/DVD package on October 20 via Asthmatic Kitty. Watch the trailer, and read our in-depth feature on Stevens from 2005.
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): Spinal Tap On Metric’s website, Emily Haines tells a story about swinging by Stonehenge while in England and meeting who other than Harry Shearer of Spinal Tap. She writes, [...]
Any song with a name like “Hellhole Ratrace” has got to be good. The San Francisco duo has added a rhythm section and some harmonies to its sound, making this track a lovely, ambling tribute to the fast life, played at a slow pace. And when Girls vocalist Christopher Owens croons “Come on, come on [...]
Brooklyn trio Au Revoir Simone recently took to the road to promote its latest pop confection, the keyboard-buzzing beauty Still Night, Still Light. Annie Hart reports: Austin rules. Austin is one of our favorite destinations on tour because of Mr. Natural’s Health Emporium, the best margaritas in the country, drool-worthy breakfast tacos and the best [...]
We’ve been fans of New Jersey’s finest since even before their first album came out back in 1994, so let’s just say we’re used to sitting around waiting for them to take their sweet-ass time putting out new music. (Three albums in more than 14 years makes the Wrens about as prolific as Boston, which is kind of [...]
It doesn’t take long for Weakerthans frontman John K. Samson to size up what kind of a crowd he’s been dealt in San Francisco tonight. When his tongue-in-cheek announcement of a local curling tournament (that bizarre sport most U.S. citizens notice only during the Winter Olympics that involves sliding a heavy polished stone, shuffleboard-like, down [...]
Thanks to Matthew Sweet and Susanna Hoffs for guest editing our website this week. You should go out immediately and buy Under The Covers Vol. 2, a brand-new collection of their versions of cool songs from the ’70s, including Big Star’s “Back Of A Car,” Fleetwood Mac’s “Second Hand News,” Tom Petty’s “Here Comes My [...]
The duo of Susanna Hoffs and Matthew Sweet may be the perfect assimilation of vocal chops and instrumental savvy, as shown on a pair of recent albums titled Under The Covers (Shout! Factory), with volume one re-examining big hits from the ’60s and volume two tackling the ’70s. The track record for Hoffs and Sweet [...]
Let Go (SideCho) is the Silent Years‘ latest; it’s an EP written not only in a single week, but a week that happened to almost immediately follow the completion of their last album, 2008′s The Globe. Despite the proximity, Let Go lives up to its name, departing from The Globe in its poppier, happier sound. This [...]
