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): Tony Royster Jr. Letterman kicks off Drum Solo Week 2 with child prodigy turned 26-year-old pro Tony Royster Jr. The Tonight Show With Jay Leno (NBC): Rickey Minor [...]
of Montreal’s music is hard to define, given it changes more often than frontman Kevin Barnes’ sequined and feathered outfits during a live show. One album might be heavy on the drum machine and synthesizer, while another showcases Barnes’ best high-pitched Prince wail with more traditional strings and percussion. The Atlanta band boasts a prodigious [...]
Neon Indian is back with Era Extraña, the follow-up to 2009 debut Psychic Chasms. Chillwave poster boy Alan Palomo recorded the new album in Helsinki, Finland, alone during the short solstice days, and it took his music in a darker direction. Thematically, the LP draws on the concept of what cyberpunk means in 2011; the word “extraña” translates [...]
of Montreal’s music is hard to define, given it changes more often than frontman Kevin Barnes’ sequined and feathered outfits during a live show. One album might be heavy on the drum machine and synthesizer, while another showcases Barnes’ best high-pitched Prince wail with more traditional strings and percussion. The Atlanta band boasts a prodigious [...]
of Montreal’s music is hard to define, given it changes more often than frontman Kevin Barnes’ sequined and feathered outfits during a live show. One album might be heavy on the drum machine and synthesizer, while another showcases Barnes’ best high-pitched Prince wail with more traditional strings and percussion. The Atlanta band boasts a prodigious [...]
of Montreal’s music is hard to define, given it changes more often than frontman Kevin Barnes’ sequined and feathered outfits during a live show. One album might be heavy on the drum machine and synthesizer, while another showcases Barnes’ best high-pitched Prince wail with more traditional strings and percussion. The Atlanta band boasts a prodigious [...]
Thanks to Her Space Holiday‘s Marc Bianchi for guest editing our website all week. Be sure to check out HSH’s new (and final) self-titled album. Here’s a video for LP track “Anything For Progress,” recorded as the first installment of the Lost In Austin Take Away series.
This week’s release of Her Space Holiday‘s 10-track, self-titled album marks the end of the one-man musical project that Marc Bianchi started back in 1996. Fittingly, HSH’s final album is also the first on the Austin-based Bianchi’s No More Good Ideas label. While he has some live dates set to support the LP, the genre-defying [...]
If just-left-of-center pop music is your thing, we’re happy to introduce you to Yellow Ostrich, the New York-by-way-of-Wisconsin brainchild of Alex Schaaf. Of course, if your ear is even remotely to the ground, you’ve likely already heard the band; Paste, Pitchfork and NPR, among others, have been hot on the band for months. And we’re [...]
Kathryn Calder of the New Pornographers will release her sophomore solo album, Bright And Vivid, on October 25 via File Under: Music … Life Sux is the new EP from Wavves, and it’s due out September 20 via Ghost Ramp. The band is currently working on a full-length for a year-end release … Former Moldy [...]
