Fans of Swedish indie rock, rejoice: After four years of inactivity, the eclectic popsters in Junip have reunited to record their first full-length album. The trio—vocalist/guitarist José González, keyboardist Tobias Winterkorn and drummer Elias Araya—formed more than a decade ago in its hometown of Gothenburg and released a well-regarded EP in 2005. Soon after, the [...]
Aidan Moffat was, and is, a miserable Scottish bastard best known for his membership in Arab Strap, the drunk, evil, foul-mouthed and generally more fun cousin of Glasgow mates Belle And Sebastian back in the Scottish-pop golden era. He also sang on a couple Mogwai songs. These days, he’s keeping busy writing (he contributed to [...]
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. Excerpt from Jean’s interview with K Records‘ Calvin Johnson in Ray Gun magazine (Los Angeles, 1994) Jean: When you’re interested in a [...]
On September 28, Meridene is issuing Something Like Blood (Amble Down), the follow-up to 2008 debut You’re Not Pretty, You’re Worse. The Eau Claire, Wisc., quartet recorded its sophomore LP at Bon Iver’s home studio with Peter Wolf Crier’s Brian Moen producing and mixing and Pedro The Lion’s T.W. Walsh mastering. The album is available [...]
Fans of Swedish indie rock, rejoice: After four years of inactivity, the eclectic popsters in Junip have reunited to record their first full-length album. The trio—vocalist/guitarist José González, keyboardist Tobias Winterkorn and drummer Elias Araya—formed more than a decade ago in its hometown of Gothenburg and released a well-regarded EP in 2005. Soon after, the [...]
Re-arrange the letters in Mice Parade and you get Adam Pierce, the percussionist and bandleader who’s been putting together post-rock albums with far-flung collaborators since 1998. 2007′s Mice Parade featured guest vocalists Laetitia Sadier (Stereolab) and Kristin Valtisdottir (Múm), and the follow-up, the recently released What It Means To Be Left-Handed (FatCat), features members of [...]
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 Eat World Jimmy Eat World is plugging forthcoming album Invented, due to drop on Tuesday. Jimmy Kimmel Live! (ABC): Primus Primus is performing in support of the [...]
Fans of Swedish indie rock, rejoice: After four years of inactivity, the eclectic popsters in Junip have reunited to record their first full-length album. The trio—vocalist/guitarist José González, keyboardist Tobias Winterkorn and drummer Elias Araya—formed more than a decade ago in its hometown of Gothenburg and released a well-regarded EP in 2005. Soon after, the [...]
Members of the Sleep-Ins, with origins from Australia, the U.S. and the U.K., found home base on a galaxy far away in their debut album, Songs About Girls And Outer Space, set to come out October 19 on frontman Chad Corley’s label, Ingot Rock. While their sound is more guitar-heavy Pixies and Dinosaur Jr than [...]
