Black Mountain‘s third album, Wilderness Heart, is out August 31 via Jagjaguwar, and the band just kicked off a lengthy tour that will take it across its native Canada, as well as the U.S. and Europe. Watch the video for first single “Old Fangs,” download an mp3 of the song, and read our 2008 feature [...]
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): New Pornographers The New Pornographers will perform “Sweet Talk, Sweet Talk” from newest album Together. The Tonight Show With Jay Leno (NBC): Travie McCoy Rerun from June 15. [...]
For more than a decade, the Pernice Brothers have mostly made plush, romantic orchestral pop that doesn’t gild the lily once tended by the Zombies, Walker Brothers and Elvis Costello. True to frontman Joe Pernice’s working-class nature, the band’s sixth and latest album, Goodbye, Killer (Ashmont), does away with the sighing string section and goes [...]
New York-based Big Tree cranked up its vegetable-oil-fueled tour van at the beginning of the month to venture on its longest tour thus far and to celebrate its self-released Home(here) EP. It’s made up of three songs recorded live in a California studio, with minimal overdubs done in NYC later. Lead track “The Concurrence Of [...]
When is a cover song better than the original? Only you can decide. This week David Bazan takes on Bob Dylan’s “The Man In Me.” MAGNET’s Ryan Burleson pulls the pin. Take cover! Over the course of their colorful and influential filmmaking careers, Ethan and Joel Coen have arguably left no greater mark on the [...]
For more than a decade, the Pernice Brothers have mostly made plush, romantic orchestral pop that doesn’t gild the lily once tended by the Zombies, Walker Brothers and Elvis Costello. True to frontman Joe Pernice’s working-class nature, the band’s sixth and latest album, Goodbye, Killer (Ashmont), does away with the sighing string section and goes [...]
Lou Barlow + the missingmen just finished up a 14-night headlining tour of the West Coast and will hit the East Coast in August with Wye Oak. Barlow and backing band also just issued a new eight-track digital EP, = Sentridoh III (Merge), which marks the recording debut by the threesome. Watch the video for [...]
Ever wonder what will happen during the last five minutes of late-night TV talk shows? Here are tonight’s notable performers: The Late Late Show With Craig Ferguson (CBS): Sharon Jones And The Dap-Kings Sharon Jones And The Dap-Kings are supporting latest LP I Learned The Hard Way. Last Call With Carson Daly (NBC): The Raveonettes Rerun from [...]
For more than a decade, the Pernice Brothers have mostly made plush, romantic orchestral pop that doesn’t gild the lily once tended by the Zombies, Walker Brothers and Elvis Costello. True to frontman Joe Pernice’s working-class nature, the band’s sixth and latest album, Goodbye, Killer (Ashmont), does away with the sighing string section and goes [...]
Beware: Eau Claire, Wisc.’s Gentle Guest is anything but. The band is coming to turn your local concert hall into a gutbucket speakeasy. Singer/songwriter Eric Rykal fronts the rough-and-tumble dectet, which has torn up the Midwest for the past four years. The Gentle Giant sounds like a good ol’ fashioned hoedown—after someone spiked the town [...]
