Thanks to the Ladybug Transistor for guest editing our website all week. Be sure to check out the band’s latest release, Clutching Stems. Watch the video trailer for the album below.
The Ladybug Transistor formed in Brooklyn in 1995, and frontman Gary Olson has been the band’s sole constant member. Clutching Stems (Merge) is the group’s seventh album and the first to be made following the 2007 asthma-related death of drummer San Fadyl. Since, the band’s lineup has solidified behind Olson, featuring Kyle Forester, Julia Rydholm, [...]
Bob Pollard’s Boston Spaceships return Tuesday with double album Let It Beard (Guided By Voices, Inc.). The 26-track LP, the band’s fifth in its three-year existence, features guest appearances by the likes of Colin Newman (Wire), J Mascis (Dinosaur Jr), Steve Wynn (Dream Syndicate), Mick Collins (Dirtbombs, Gories), Dave Rick (Phantom Tollbooth) and Mitch Mitchell [...]
Bon Iver has announced more dates on its current summer/fall tour, and on September 6, the band will release “Holocene” (Jagjaguwar), the second 12-inch single from its self-titled album. Bon Iver is also set to co-headline and curate the first annual Pitchfork Music Festival in Paris in October … After an agonizing four years, fans [...]
The Ladybug Transistor formed in Brooklyn in 1995, and frontman Gary Olson has been the band’s sole constant member. Clutching Stems (Merge) is the group’s seventh album and the first to be made following the 2007 asthma-related death of drummer San Fadyl. Since, the band’s lineup has solidified behind Olson, featuring Kyle Forester, Julia Rydholm, [...]
TV On The Radio‘s Nine Types Of Light, the follow-up to 2008′s Dear Science, came out earlier this year via Interscope. The Brooklyn band kicks off a month-long North American tour August 27 in Kansas City, Mo. In the meantime, download an mp3 of Nine Types Of Light track “Caffeinated Consciousness,” and watch the brand [...]
The Ladybug Transistor formed in Brooklyn in 1995, and frontman Gary Olson has been the band’s sole constant member. Clutching Stems (Merge) is the group’s seventh album and the first to be made following the 2007 asthma-related death of drummer San Fadyl. Since, the band’s lineup has solidified behind Olson, featuring Kyle Forester, Julia Rydholm, [...]
On August 16, the War On Drugs is releasing sophomore album Slave Ambient via Secretly Canadian. MAGNET’s Philadelphia homeboys are kicking off a three-week North American tour two days later with a hometown show, but in the meantime, download “Come To The City” and “Baby Missiles” below, and read our 2009 feature on the band. [...]
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 27-year run, with text by vocalist Jean Smith. What I learned on my summer vacation. Nice is manipulation. The other night, I went down to the PetroCan to get Smartfood. [...]
The Ladybug Transistor formed in Brooklyn in 1995, and frontman Gary Olson has been the band’s sole constant member. Clutching Stems (Merge) is the group’s seventh album and the first to be made following the 2007 asthma-related death of drummer San Fadyl. Since, the band’s lineup has solidified behind Olson, featuring Kyle Forester, Julia Rydholm, [...]
