Ever wonder what will happen during the last five minutes of late-night TV talk shows? Here are tonight’s notable performers: Jimmy Kimmel Live! (ABC): Heartless Bastards Cincinnati’s Heartless Bastards are promoting latest album The Mountain. The Late Show With Craig Ferguson (CBS): The Hotrats The Hotrats—half of Brit band Supergrass—is plugging its new covers album, Turn [...]
Regrets—Art Alexakis has had more than a few. And he’s had his share of losing, too. But the Everclear frontman has always done it his way. While far too many of his ’90s Pacific Northwest brethren (Kurt Cobain, Layne Staley, Andrew Wood, et al) ended up six feet under, Alexakis has been a survivor, enduring [...]
Check out the lovely vocal stylings on “Icarus,” from White Hinterland‘s March 9 release Kairos (Dead Oceans). This is the third album from Casey Dienel—the second under her pseudonym White Hinterland—but this attempt is unlike any of her previous work. Abandoning earlier influences of jazz and Francophilia, Kairos shifts to a more introspective, electronic sound [...]
Regrets—Art Alexakis has had more than a few. And he’s had his share of losing, too. But the Everclear frontman has always done it his way. While far too many of his ’90s Pacific Northwest brethren (Kurt Cobain, Layne Staley, Andrew Wood, et al) ended up six feet under, Alexakis has been a survivor, enduring [...]
Last week, we gave you an mp3 from these Italian guys. Now we are proud to premiere their video for “Radiorace.” The song comes from N.A.M.B.‘s sophomore album, BMAN (Monotreme), which is due out next month. The stop-motion-animation, WALL•E-esque video was directed and edited by Francesco Calabrese, who co-wrote the story with the band and visual [...]
Ever wonder what will happen during the last five minutes of late-night TV talk shows? Here are tonight’s notable performers: The Late Show With David Letterman (CBS): Blind Boys Of Alabama With Lou Reed Music legends Blind Boys Of Alabama and Lou Reed will perform Velvet Underground’s “Jesus” on Letterman tonight. The song comes from [...]
Regrets—Art Alexakis has had more than a few. And he’s had his share of losing, too. But the Everclear frontman has always done it his way. While far too many of his ’90s Pacific Northwest brethren (Kurt Cobain, Layne Staley, Andrew Wood, et al) ended up six feet under, Alexakis has been a survivor, enduring [...]
2009 marked the 10-year anniversary of the Heligoats, a project of Christ Otepka that he has maintained even while working with other full-time bands, such as Troubled Hubble. Otepka spent a brutal Chicago winter jamming and recording with members of local band Ulysses S. Grant (who are now Heligoats members), and on February 2, new [...]
Portland, Ore’s Matthew Cooper has been making ambient records as Eluvium since 2003. Like previous efforts, the new Similes (due out via the Temporary Residence label on February 23) was recorded at Cooper’s home studio, though the eight-track album marks the first time an Eluvium record features percussion and singing. With this excellent mix tape [...]
