Ever wonder what will happen during the last five minutes of late-night TV talk shows? Here are tonight’s notable performers: The Jay Leno Show (NBC): Lady Gaga Lady Gaga is supporting new record The Fame Monster, which is out today. The outrageous pop singer will also be promoting her expansive worldwide tour, starting in Montreal [...]
With the release of major-label debut What Will We Be (Warner Bros.), Devendra Banhart proves once again he has the potential to be one of his generation’s major players. His voice, with its careening vibrato and fuse-blowing intensity, sounds something like Marc Bolan’s, but his repertoire may be more all over the map than anyone [...]
Kids these days–doing drugs, having promiscuous sex and, apparently, crafting beautifully delicate folk melodies. The Lower 48, an underage quartet from Minneapolis, has accumulated more buzz before the band members’ 20th birthdays than most rockers do in a lifetime. And their debut EP, Everywhere To Go (Grape Juice), only dropped November 3. Download “Transmissions, Pt. [...]
With the release of major-label debut What Will We Be (Warner Bros.), Devendra Banhart proves once again he has the potential to be one of his generation’s major players. His voice, with its careening vibrato and fuse-blowing intensity, sounds something like Marc Bolan’s, but his repertoire may be more all over the map than anyone [...]
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 [...]
On a rainy Thursday night, three energetic bands took the stage at Northern Liberties venue Johnny Brenda’s. First up was April Smith And The Great Picture. Smith’s rag-doll appearance makes her larger-than-life vocals all the more stunning. Rock melodies combined with imaginative, Tom Waits-esque narratives resulted in a captivating first act. Though the audience was [...]
After the July release of second album Gather, Form & Fly (Hometapes), Megafaun spent the summer touring with Bowerbirds, the Dodos and Bon Iver (featuring ex-bandmate, Justin Vernon). But if you happened to miss it, no worries; photographer Tim Lytvinenko most certainly did not. Just your luck, he’s combined his series of stills into a video, [...]
With the release of major-label debut What Will We Be (Warner Bros.), Devendra Banhart proves once again he has the potential to be one of his generation’s major players. His voice, with its careening vibrato and fuse-blowing intensity, sounds something like Marc Bolan’s, but his repertoire may be more all over the map than anyone [...]
The former multi-instrumentalist/ frontman of Rex and Pullman is back with a solo album. Curtis Harvey‘s intimacy and immersion in his new project are evident and beautiful. Recorded in his basement, most tracks were done in just one take. For the percussion, Harvey used “whatever happened to be around,” including bottles, pencils, pots, pans and [...]
The impossible-to-pronounce but brilliant-to-listen-to Xiu Xiu has announced the release of its new album, Dear God I Hate Myself, which will be out February 23 on Kill Rock Stars … Indie rockers Aloha will also be making a return with its latest release, Home Acres, due out on Polyvinyl in March … If you just can’t get [...]
