Every month, I post my 5 favorite videos that we’ve featured on Seen Your Video (our music video-obsessed sister blog). May happened to be an outstanding month for music videos, making it diffi...
Seattle is famous for it’s alt-rock and folk scenes, but not typically electro-pop, so it’s a pleasant surprise to find such an exciting and promising band like Beat Connection come out o...
(photo by gege.gatt) After taking its sweet time last year, summer has struck back with a vengeance. At least here in the midwest, 90+ degree temperatures and clear, sunny skies are quickly becoming ...
You’d think a person would be crazy to leave a gig in Fleet Foxes especially after a milestone record like Helplessness Blues, but that’s exactly what J. Tillman did to focus on his solo ...
Editor’s Note: Matt (on behalf of musicforants.com) contributed this post to Nerve.com’s Five Albums series this week. Check out his list / remarks below! Allo Darlin’ – Europe At f...
Offering further evidence that 2012 is shaping up to be the best year for guitar-based rock music in a some time, party rockers Fang Island will be releasing their sophomore album this July, and if f...
Whether it’s Radiohead, Justice or Kanye West, lots of artists have used children’s choirs in their music and it can have the effect of sounding uplifting, cute, anthemic or just plain cr...
Ben Wigler, former frontman of Arizona (a band who I’ve raved about quite a bit on here), has returned with New Beard, a Brooklyn-based quartet whose expertise includes awesome music and facial...
After releasing the phenomenal double-album Hurry Up, We’re Dreaming last year, M83 were high on my bands-to-see list and their tour with recent faves of mine I Break Horses made this show an a...
Every month, I post my 5 favorite videos that we’ve featured on Seen Your Video (our music video-obsessed sister blog). Topping our list in April, we have some adorable kids in face paint, styl...
A lot of great albums have been coming out (or leaking) recently, so it took me a while to listen to Suckers latest LP, which is unfortunate, because Candy Salad is an extremely solid sophomore album...
I’ve been listening to the Beach Boys longer than any other band. Their greatest hits compilation was one of the first CDs I ever owned and I had the whole album memorized backwards-and-forward...
On their self-titled debut album, Hundred Waters perform the rare feat of making songs that are both incredibly melodic and challenging. I’ve seen them described as “folktronica” a ...
I’ve been following Chicago’s Maps & Atlases casually for a number of years (they put on a hell of a live show), but even still, their lastest album Beware and Be Grateful snuck up an...
Soundsupply Drop 2 from Soundsupply on Vimeo. We previously wrote about Soundsupply a few months ago, but with the release of the second bunch of albums we thought it was something worth revisiting i...
Brendan Losch is a Chicago-based folk singer/songwriter who also runs the music blog, Count Me Out. He released a new album this week called Low and I’ve been digging it quite a bit, especially...
Most of the time when an artist covers a song, they’ll release it as a single, b-side, EP, live performance, or as a part of a compilation or covers album. On the rare occasion though, artists ...
I’ll be heading to Bonnaroo for the first time this year, and in preparation, I’m checking out some of the bands on the lineup that are new to me. My favorite so far is L.A. indie pop ban...
Danish indie-pop duo The Raveonettes tend to release a new album/EP every year or two so it’s easy to take them for granted, but don’t sleep on “Into The Night”, the title tra...
Francisco The Man play a type of sunny, post-punk guitar rock that’s all been all but absent from the indie rock scene since the early/mid-2000′s when bands like French Kicks, Rogue Wave,...
Earlier this month I launched Seen Your Video, a blog dedicated to posting cool music videos. So if you’ve noticed a lack in video posts the last few weeks, it’s because we’re so bu...
It’s been a long while since I’ve posted any covers, but Bishop Allen side-project The Last Names playing Harry Nilsson’s “Me and My Arrow” (from the animated film The P...
Desert Stars have delivered me something I haven’t heard in awhile—and it’s been a long time since I’ve discovered a band I can listen to so repeatedly. With catchy choruses that so...
Yesterday was a pretty huge day for music news, Sigur Ros announced a new album (and released a beautiful new track), The Morning Benders changed their name, new tracks from Best Coast and Moonface a...
I didn’t hear Swedish shoegazers I Break Horses debut album till after I made my Best of 2011 list last year, but if I had it would’ve probably ranked very highly. Hearts is a majestic al...
Inspired by the return of one of my favorite TV shows, the hyper self-aware Community (whose Abed could be considered the patron saint of meta-humor) and the self-referring “Simple Song” ...
London-based electro-pop producer Kindness (moniker for Adam Bainbridge) made some waves a couple years back with his chilled-out disco-funk cover of The Replacements classic “Swingin PartyR...
UK electro-pop maestros Hot Chip just premiered “Flutes”, the first track from their highly anticipated fifth studio album, and no surprise, it’s an absolute dancefloor banger. Begi...
Ever since seeing Radiohead’s headlining set at Lollapalooza 4 years ago, I’ve been eagerly anticipating the opportunity to see them again. The journey to the concert was an experience in...
Philly retro-rock revivalists Free Energy put out one of the funniest debut albums of the last couple years with Stuck On Nothing in 2010 and they’re back in all their heavy-riffing, cowbell-pl...
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