As 2010 comes to an end, we are taking a look back at some of our favorite posts of the year by our guest editors. If there’s one thing Canadian quintet Stars has been able to do for the entire duration of its 10-year run it’s make us sigh wistfully over beautifully crafted lyrics and [...]
Christmas Special (+ 1) is the third and latest album from England’s The Boy Least Likely To. The 11-track LP features eight original holiday-themed songs (including “George And Andrew,” which imagines George Michael and Andrew Ridgeley of Wham! reunited on Christmas Eve in a Cornish pub) and three covers of seasonal favorites. According to the band, “We’ve [...]
As 2010 comes to an end, we are taking a look back at some of our favorite posts of the year by our guest editors. A dozen years into its career, Thrice is still evolving. Following 2005′s experimental/atmospheric Vheissu and four-part concept album The Alchemy Index Vols. I & II (2007) and Vols. III & [...]
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. Texas Both of the other women in the cell are too big to get into the top bunk. In the morning, Celia [...]
As 2010 comes to an end, we are taking a look back at some of our favorite posts of the year by our guest editors. 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. [...]
Mogwai‘s seventh studio album, Hardcore Will Never Die, But You Will, is out February 15 via Sub Pop, and we’re excited to say it ranks up there with the best music the Scottish band has made over the past 15 years. Here’s the video for an edited version of album track “How To Be A Werewolf.” [...]
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): Darker My Love Rerun from December 13. Darker My Love made its late-night television debut, promoting latest LP Alive As You Are with a performance of “Backseat” as well as holiday single “Snow Is [...]
As 2010 comes to an end, we are taking a look back at some of our favorite posts of the year by our guest editors. 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. [...]
New York City’s Sleepy Rebels are celebrating the holidays with a new Christmas-themed album, the 13-track Bah! Humbug! (Powerful Company). The band—brother-and-sister combo Bruce and Erica Driscoll, plus Jeremy Adelman (Brookville, Goldfrapp, Tahiti 80)—describes the LP as being “full of sleigh rides, lullabies, spooky late-night Santa encounters, jingle hops and even a few non-holiday surprises,” but you [...]
As 2010 comes to an end, we are taking a look back at some of our favorite posts of the year by our guest editors. This past winter was an eventful time for OK Go, between the release of third album Of The Blue Colour Of The Sky, disputes with EMI over its YouTube videos [...]
