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, [...]
Hurricane, Grace Jones‘ first U.S. release in 22 years, is out via PIAS on September 6. Though the LP was released in Europe in 2009, the American version contains a bonus CD featuring a dub version of the album. Download the radio edit of “William’s Blood (Aeroplane Remix)” below. “William’s Blood (Aeroplane Remix)” (download): [Audio [...]
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, [...]
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, [...]
Thanks to Laura Cantrell for guest editing our website all week. Be sure to check her latest album, Kitty Wells Dresses: Songs Of The Queen Of Country Music. Here’s a video of Cantrell performing the record’s “I Don’t Claim To Be An Angel” at Studio 360.
Kitty Wells Dresses: Songs Of The Queen Of Country Music is the fifth full-length from New York City singer/songwriter Laura Cantrell, and as you probably deduced from the album’s title, the LP pays tribute to country music’s first female star. Cantrell recorded the 10-track record in Nashville, the city where both she and Wells were [...]
Mister Heavenly is an indie-rock super group made up of Nick Thorburn (Islands, Unicorns), Ryan Kattner (Man Man) and Joe Plummer (Modest Mouse). The trio’s debut album, Out Of Love, will be out August 16 via Sub Pop. Says Thorburn, “The songs were dark and strange but oddly addictive. They really sounded like a mash-up [...]
Dan Deacon has been keeping busy this year, working with Francis Ford Coppola on the score and soundtrack for his new film Twixt. While we wait for the movie’s release, Carpark Records is reissuing two of Deacon’s early works, Meetle Mice and Silly Hat Vs. Eagle Hat (both from 2003), on double LP on September 13. [...]
Kitty Wells Dresses: Songs Of The Queen Of Country Music is the fifth full-length from New York City singer/songwriter Laura Cantrell, and as you probably deduced from the album’s title, the LP pays tribute to country music’s first female star. Cantrell recorded the 10-track record in Nashville, the city where both she and Wells were [...]
As if Merge Records kicking off its reissue campaign of all four of Archers Of Loaf’s studio albums on August 2 with the release of the band’s excellent 1993 debut, Icky Mettle (read all about about the LP in our Lost Classics post about it), wasn’t enough for you, here’s some more good news: Crooked Fingers, [...]
