Like we told you earlier this month when we posted an mp3 for “Hide It Away,” the first single from Retribution Gospel Choir‘s new 2 (Sub Pop), the band’s sophomore album is amazing. In fact, it’s the best thing we’ve heard this year. Check out the video for “Hide It Away.”
Ever wonder what will happen during the last five minute of late-night TV talk shows? Here are tonight’s notable performers: The Late Show With David Letterman (CBS): Julian Casablancas Rerun from January 6. Julian Casablancas played “Out Of The Blue” from debut solo album Phrazes For The Young. Last Call With Carson Daly (NBC): Phoenix [...]
It’s not as much of a journey from religious music to Jerry Lee Lewis and the Die Hard movie franchise as you might think. For someone who began her recording career as a Christian artist, Sam Phillips has had a very secular professional life. Born Leslie Ann Phillips in 1962, she cut her last album [...]
Elaine Lachica is a New York singer/songwriter backed by a band with some major indie-rock credentials: drummer Mark Stepro (Ben Kweller), bassist Rob Calder (Ari Hest), guitarist Aaron Lee Tasjan (New York Dolls), a string quartet led by violinist Rob Moose (Sufjan Stevens, Antony And The Johnsons) and a brass section led by trumpeter Jon [...]
Hey, remember 15 In Philly? MAGNET’s 15th-anniversary survey of our hometown music scene apparently left a lot to be desired in the variety department. It made our friend Rocco DiCicco ask, “Youse guys listen to anything but india [sic] rock?” (He didn’t actually ask that, but it’s always a good time stereotyping Philadelphia’s Italian-American community.) [...]
It’s not as much of a journey from religious music to Jerry Lee Lewis and the Die Hard movie franchise as you might think. For someone who began her recording career as a Christian artist, Sam Phillips has had a very secular professional life. Born Leslie Ann Phillips in 1962, she cut her last album [...]
Some of us always listened to Air while schlepping around our dorm rooms in the dead of winter during college, so it’s fitting that the refrain in the French duo’s “So Light Is Her Footfall” (from Love 2) is “Alone, alone, alone.” This video sucks you into gorgeous noir melancholy with its obligatory rail-thin Maybelline [...]
Ever wonder what will happen during the last five minute of late-night TV talk shows? Here are tonight’s notable performers: The Late Show With David Letterman (CBS): The Hotrats Rerun from January 13. The Hotrats—half of Brit band Supergrass—did the Beastie Boys’ “(You Gotta) Fight For Your Right (To Party!)” from their covers album, Turn Ons. The [...]
It’s not as much of a journey from religious music to Jerry Lee Lewis and the Die Hard movie franchise as you might think. For someone who began her recording career as a Christian artist, Sam Phillips has had a very secular professional life. Born Leslie Ann Phillips in 1962, she cut her last album [...]
For a much-needed glimpse of summer during these dismal winter days, check out “Cranberry,” the new single from Auckland, New Zealand, trio the Ruby Suns. The track, loaded with synth and tribal rhythms, is from the band’s third release, Fight Softly (Sub Pop), and it will have you imagining yourself on the beach in no time. [...]
