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 [...]
If you live outside the Philly area, the name Palmyra Delran would seem completely unremarkable to you. But Philadelphians know both words as the names of suburbs located just across the river in New Jersey. Anway, Delran the person is the frontwoman of legendary female garage band the Friggs, and she just released a new [...]
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. It’s dead easy to list the most obvious influences of Scotland’s Teenage Fanclub. He’s read them so often, founding band member Norman Blake can rattle them off at the drop [...]
Who says there’s no such thing as a free record anymore? Certainly not the Hush Now, which earlier this year gave away its latest release, the six-track Shiver Me Starships EP. And as the Boston quintet did last year with “Wishing You A Happy Christmas,” the Hush Now is now giving away a brand-new holiday-themed song, “On [...]
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. It’s dead easy to list the most obvious influences of Scotland’s Teenage Fanclub. He’s read them so often, founding band member Norman Blake can rattle them off at the drop [...]
You can undoubtedly make a lot of musician friends when you play in a successful rock band. Luckily for Seattle-based artist Rusty Willoughby, he’s been in three. So for his most recent album, Cobirds Unite (out now on Local 638 Records), he teamed up with Rachel Flotard (Visqueen), Barret Martin (Screaming Trees), Barb Hunter (Afghan [...]
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. Oh, l’amour! Andy Bell is back with a brand new solo offering. The Erasure frontman is releasing the techno-tinged Non-Stop (Mute) this week. The LP was co-produced by Bell and Pascal [...]
Nightlands is the moniker that Philadelphia multi-instrumentalist Dave Hartley records under, and his home-recorded debut LP, Forget The Mantra, was released last month via Secretly Canadian. Hartley will be playing his first-ever live shows in January with gigs scheduled in Brooklyn, Philly, Chicago, Pontiac, Mich., and Bloomington, Ind. Check out the new Mark Schoneveld-directed video [...]
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): Grace Potter & The Nocturnals Vermont’s Grace Potter & The Nocturnals are plugging their new self-titled album. Jimmy Kimmel Live! (ABC): Brad Rerun from December 7. Brad performed “Every [...]
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. Oh, l’amour! Andy Bell is back with a brand new solo offering. The Erasure frontman is releasing the techno-tinged Non-Stop (Mute) this week. The LP was co-produced by Bell and Pascal [...]