It’s time for the return of the pedal-steel guitar. Red Sparowes are gearing up for a March tour and April release of their third LP, The Fear Is Excruciating, But Therein Lies The Answer (Sargent House). As the Pink Floyd-meets-Isis teaser video hints, the eight-track disc is still primarily ambient instrumental.
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): The Blind Boys Of Alabama With Lou Reed Rerun from January 21. Music legends the Blind Boys Of Alabama and Lou Reed performed the Velvet Underground’s “Jesus.” The [...]
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 [...]
Electro post-rock guru Kieran Hebden sealed the four-year gap in Four Tet’s full-lengths with January’s There Is Love In You (Domino). Flawless in precision and emphatically emotive, Four Tet’s fifth is texturized minimalism bathed in subdued beats. Somewhere between lulling and dancey, this album is truly felt on an intuitive level, with nuances of yearning [...]
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.) [...]
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 [...]
The latest single from the Phenomenal Handclap Band, “Baby” is a warm, mellow, psychedelic-soul number. Check out the video, which is like a ’70s horror film and features the NYC musicians carousing around a cabin upstate, jamming and soaking up the sunshine before they are all systematically murdered. “The surreal serial-killer aspect colored everyone’s mood,” [...]
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): VV Brown Next Big Thing British pop/punk artist VV Brown is supporting debut album Travelling Like The Light.
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 [...]
Still riding the tailwind of last year’s The Wooded Forest (Cantora), Brooklyn duo Savoir Adore is equal parts genius and magic. Imaginative and somehow different, the creative antics of Deidre Muro and Paul Hammer result in a convergence between folk and lo-fi pop. Savoir Adore recently played a residency at Manhattan’s Cake Shop, and the band’s knack [...]
