The Walkmen released a nostalgia filled clip for the title track of their latest album, Heaven. The video was directed by Alex Southam and features old footage and photographs of the band over the ye...
Wild Leaves’ sound grows out of its Midwestern roots. The band, currently located in Brooklyn, creates folk music that could be found in your parent’s record collection, but still manages...
The two sisters known as CocoRosie make sounds that are just strange enough to convince listeners that someone might have slipped something into their lemonade. The girls’ last release, Grey Oceans; ...
M83 released another compelling visual companion for the latest single, Reunion, off 2011’s breakout album, Hurry Up, We’re Dreaming. The video, directed by Fleur & Manu, is a contin...
It’s the oldest story in the book: Boy meets girl. Boy loses girl. Boy chases girl through the woods wielding an axe. And that’s why there’s nothing like some good old fashioned mur...
Brian Dunn’s 2010 release Examining The Fallout was a true diamond in the rough; a record that appeared on my desk with no explanation and no expectations, then proceeded to quietly blow my doo...
Rejoice saints and sinner alike! Reverend Peyton’s Big Damn Band is back and comin’atcha with their fif and newest album, Between The Ditches. For this latest chapter in the trio’s ...
Denton, TX’s Fight Bite, comprised of Neon Indian touring keyboardist/vocalist Leanne Macomber and Jeff Louis, released their follow-up to 2008s Emerald Eyes. The gap between releases can more ...
POLIÇA released a new video for Give You The Ghost track Wandering Star. The video, directed by Eugene Lee Yang and choreographed by Yemi A.D, is an artsy affair with body paint and interpretive danc...
Former Q and Not U and Georgie James member, Laura Burhenn, is getting ready to release the sophomore album, Generals, under The Mynabirds moniker through Saddle Creek on June 5th. The album is a hod...
Ty Segall Band released another cut from their Slaughterhouse album with I Bought My Eyes. The song follows the fuzzed out Wave Goodbye that we posted last month. The LP is out June 26th through In T...
Yes, we’re keeping tabs on London’s 2:54, whose self-titled debut Fat Possum release drops today. To mark the occasion, the band has released a new video for Creeping. The video was direc...
Here’s the playlist from today’s My Old Kentucky Blog Radio on SIRIUS XMU, Channel 35! Tune in to channel 35 on either SIRIUS or XM at 12pm ET or 12am ET /9pm PST today to listen to the s...
Walloping Australian rawk duo DZ Deathrays are primed for something of a breakthrough this summer. Of course, it never hurts when no less an authority than NME names you one of the 20 Most Exciting N...
I first became aware of Hacienda when their sophomore release, the Dan Auerback-produced Big Red & Barbacoa landed on my desk back in 2010. I really dug that record, with its accomplished musici...
They say the road to hell is paved with good intentions, and we here at MOKB frequently have the best intentions. But we are human. We forget. We get easily distracted (shiny things!). We leave posts...
Videoing crawled from the wreckage of Single Frame, a turn of the century visualcentric post-punk trio that received plenty of bloglove back in the flat earth days of the interweb. The new unit finds...
So, apparently Little Richard is one of the most important figures in the history of rock-n-roll, even if you’re Canadian. Toronto blues-rawk duo Black Pistol Fire are Kevin McKeown and Eric Ow...
It’s been forever and day since since we wrote about Baby Dee, the mega-talented multi-instrumentalist who blew my mind a few years back with Safe Inside The Day. I guess apologies are in order...
The National are keeping busy between albums by contributing a song to the Game of Thrones Season 2 soundtrack called The Rains of Castamere. This song, for those familiar, is about Tywin Lannister...
The Child of Lov is a name you should remember. There is not a lot of info about him out there, but if this track, Heal, is any indication, I fully expect to know his entire life story in the very ne...
Roanoke, VA indie pop band Eternal Summers released a VHS home video looking clip for their single Millions. The video, directed by Johnny Woods, finds two sisters shooting guns and destroying items ...
Pusha-T is coming out guns blazing is his latest track titled Exodus 23:1 that was posted on his Soundcloud today. Some are saying it is targeting Lil Wayne, who is none too happy. Listen for yoursel...
DIIV’s video for How Long Have You Known? finds Zachary Cole playing mad scientist by blending everything from cassette tapes to a crucifix to make a special pill. The ingredients of the pill, ...
On June 26th, Lefse Records will put out Pyschic Twin’s Gonna Get Her b/w Deepest Part 7″, the first of six 7″ singles in a newly announced series from the label. Their inspiration ...
OK, you got me. I’m a sucker for umlauts. Nü Sensae is a Vancouver-based boy-girl-boy trio who purport to be filed under Punk, but I’m getting a little more of a Neo-Grunge vibe based sol...
The Brooklyn-based septet known as Woodpecker is pert near ready to roll out their sophomore effort, Thanks Anyway, and I needed about 30 seconds of lead single Every Boy in NY to know it needed to b...
2011 was something of a coming out party for the music man of Austin, MN, John Maus, with We Must Become The Pitiless Censors Of Ourselves, finding itself onto more than a few year end “Best of...
South Dakota native Raj Dawson, otherwise known under his project name Mystery Pills, released a video for the EP track The Glass Traditions. The song finds Dawson playing driving guitar over a simpl...
Light Asylum released an aggressive new video for their track Heart of Dust. The song is featured on their self-titled album out now on Mexican Summer. The visual, directed by Grant Worth and David R...
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