Thanks to Eef Barzelay of Clem Snide for guest editing our website all week. Be sure to check out the band’s latest, The Meat Of Life. Here’s the video premiere for the album’s first single, “Walmart Parking Lot.”
When Clem Snide began recording albums more than a decade ago in New York, the band’s clever alt-country songs often came across as an ironic take on Americana. Everyone knows you can’t do country music in the big city, and where did Israeli-born singer/guitarist Eef Barzelay get that twang from, anyway? After years of slogging [...]
Giorgio Angelini and Cully Symington are two pretty busy guys who spend most of their time working and touring with bands such as Bishop Allen, the Rosebuds, the Gutter Twins, Cursive and Okkervil River. But since 2007, the duo has been working on an album as 1986, with the help of TJ Doherty (recording engineer [...]
Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers have announced the spring release of Mojo (Reprise), their first studio album in eight years. The band will support the LP on a summer tour of North America’s top arenas and amphitheaters, featuring a mix of guest appearances by My Morning Jacket, Crosby Stills And Nash, Joe Cocker, ZZ Top [...]
When Clem Snide began recording albums more than a decade ago in New York, the band’s clever alt-country songs often came across as an ironic take on Americana. Everyone knows you can’t do country music in the big city, and where did Israeli-born singer/guitarist Eef Barzelay get that twang from, anyway? After years of slogging [...]
Check out this video of Thee Silver Mt. Zion Memorial Orchestra performing “I Built Myself A Metal Bird” live in front of a small audience (including a baby) in a very bizarrely decorated space. The song is off the band’s sixth album, Kollaps Tradixionales (out now on Constellation Records), which is its first recording since summer [...]
When Clem Snide began recording albums more than a decade ago in New York, the band’s clever alt-country songs often came across as an ironic take on Americana. Everyone knows you can’t do country music in the big city, and where did Israeli-born singer/guitarist Eef Barzelay get that twang from, anyway? After years of slogging [...]
Sounding something like peppier Nada Surf meets a disco-pop beat, the Los Campesinos! remix of You Say Party! We Say Die!‘s “Laura Palmer’s Prom” makes the Canadian dance punkers’ music take on an even better than usual party appeal. The band is consistently evolving with the influences from touring throughout Japan, China, Australia and Brazil. [...]
Every Saturday, we’ll be posting a new illustration by David Lester. The Mecca Normal guitarist is visually documenting people, places and events from his band’s 26-year run, with text by vocalist Jean Smith. “The Caribou And The Oil Pipeline” is the last download from The Observer album. It falls under the heading of political, and [...]
When Clem Snide began recording albums more than a decade ago in New York, the band’s clever alt-country songs often came across as an ironic take on Americana. Everyone knows you can’t do country music in the big city, and where did Israeli-born singer/guitarist Eef Barzelay get that twang from, anyway? After years of slogging [...]
