The initial tour of duty of Admiral Radley came to a fitting conclusion in a steaming barn just outside Escalon, Calif. last night. Nothing could have been more appropriate. Jason Lytle and Aaron Burtch (both formerly of revered Modesto, Calif., indie-rockers Grandaddy), along with Aaron Espinoza and Ariana Murray (who once toiled similar fields with [...]
Tired Pony is probably the biggest supergroup you haven’t heard of yet, featuring seven members who have been involved with Snow Patrol, Belle & Sebastian, R.E.M., the Minus 5 and many others. Plus, the band’s debut album, The Place We Ran From (out September 28 on Fiction Records), features appearances from Editors’ Tom Smith and [...]
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): Jimmy Webb Composer Jimmy Webb is promoting Just Across The River, which features such guests as Willie Nelson, Billy Joel, Mark Knopfler, Jackson Browne and Linda Ronstadt. The Tonight Show [...]
Talking to Apples in stereo frontman Robert Schneider is something like sitting around the kitchen table with a few friends and a six-pack while knocking out the screenplay for a new episode of Seinfeld. With Schneider at the controls of this magic-bus ride, he pulls the topics he likes out of thin air like some [...]
Classical experimentalists Balmorhea are incredibly adept at evoking immense feelings without falling prey to the tired idea that all instrumental music outside of film should follow the quiet/loud/quiet/louder script. No, over the course of the Austin band’s four records, its blend of Americana, ambient and classical textures have implicitly provided more than enough emotional resonance; [...]
Talking to Apples in stereo frontman Robert Schneider is something like sitting around the kitchen table with a few friends and a six-pack while knocking out the screenplay for a new episode of Seinfeld. With Schneider at the controls of this magic-bus ride, he pulls the topics he likes out of thin air like some [...]
Talking to Apples in stereo frontman Robert Schneider is something like sitting around the kitchen table with a few friends and a six-pack while knocking out the screenplay for a new episode of Seinfeld. OK, give me four totally diverse topics and that will be a new show: Muffin tops, a kid in a germ-proof [...]
Thanks to former Swervedriver frontman Adam Franklin for guest editing our website all week. Be sure to check out Franklin’s latest, I Could Sleep For A Thousand Years, recorded with his newly minted backup outfit, Bolts Of Melody. Here’s a video for “Yesterday Has Gone Forever” that was taped during a session of Rabid In [...]
How do you best the anti-guitar-god bluster of arguably the most sonically bold and melodically sophisticated band of England’s shoegaze era? If you’re Swervedriver’s unflappable former leader, Adam Franklin, you don’t even try. You simply work off the various templates for greatness set forth by your former outfit, which, quite frankly, spewed out enough novel [...]
English pop rockers A Silent Film are bringing their debut album, The City That Sleeps, to the U.S. via the Bieler Bros. label. The album was originally released in 2008 throughout Europe, and the band hopes to come over for an American tour in support of its release, though no dates have been set as of [...]
