Milwaukee quartet Jaill is living the dream: After years of recording tracks in spare bedrooms onto CDs for friends and playing basement shows, the guys inked a deal with Sub Pop, which will issue their new album That’s How We Burn on Tuesday. After the release, Jaill will hit the road for a tour opening [...]
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 [...]
Andrew W.K. does one thing very well, and that is being fucking awesome. He’s just released two albums, Close Calls With Brick Walls and Mother Of Mankind, which come packaged together and encompass a total of 39 tracks. Close Calls With Brick Walls was actually originally released in 2006 but only in Japan and South [...]
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): Keane Keane will perform in support of the Night Train EP, which features collaboration with K’naan.
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 [...]
Yesterday, you were in suburban New Jersey, and then you took some acid. Now, you’re not. Dropped off in a field somewhere far away, it’s summer, and there’s sunshine, nothing and nobody around except a barn in the distance, but you’re not scared to be alone. You wander toward the barn in your barefeet and [...]
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 [...]
In a world where cheery indie-folk bands seem to be popping up left and right, Birmingham, Ala., native Dan Sartain drives up in a beat-up 1969 Camaro with slicked-back hair and blows them all away with his sinister bluesy sound and cutting lyrics. At least, that’s what he’s about to do, as his fifth album, [...]
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 [...]
