The notion of catharsis and healing through rock music is not a new one. We’ve all experienced chills and deep emotional responses to the music we love, and it’s doubly true for those who create it. Following the release of last year’s very personal “Worms/Year 5772” EP, Cold Beat, led by bandleader Hannah Lew (Grass Widow), is ready to … Continue reading
Chrysalis, Nostalghia’s debut is a darkly atmospheric yet ethereal album. Roy Gnan’s alternately eerie and powerful instrumentation blends beautifully with Ciscandra Nostalghia’s amorphously changing vocals and surreally emotional lyrics. According to Ciscandra “you can hear the sound of a moth throughout the entire album. At one point it comes out of my mouth and you … Continue reading
PROTOMARTYR ANNOUNCE SOPHOMORE ALBUM, UNDER COLOR OF OFFICIAL RIGHT OUT 4/8 ON HARDLY ARTIn a city full of brilliant people with dead-end jobs and dampened by bitter-cold winters, playing music offers a cheap outlet. Protomartyr’s taut, austere rock music was incubated in a freezing Detroit warehouse littered with beer cans and cigarette butts and warmed, feebly, by … Continue reading
I know what you’re thinking because I was thinking it too. Not another effing folk singer. Oh, does he sing with the hint of a drawl? Did his grandma teach him how to play a guitar he bought at the five and dime? Does he take the city bus and play concerts at old folks … Continue reading
Lucius’s debut LP Wildewoman is a neon collision of raucous flowery pop and emotionally raw folk music. The quintet makes marvelous use of their two lead singers, blending and weaving their voices together and giving them a starring role in the album. Here’s the album, track by track. Wildewoman: a catchy joyous portrait of an … Continue reading
WILD BEASTS ANNOUNCE NEW ALBUM, PRESENT TENSE, OUT 2/25/14 ON DOMINO, AND NEW YORK AND LOS ANGELES SHOWS WATCH THE VIDEO FOR FIRST SINGLE, “WANDERLUST” … Continue reading
Quilt’s stunning new record, Held in Splendor, is out January 28th on Mexican Summer, and the band have already shared two very contrasting glimpses into the album. The first was the lush and languid “Arctic Shark,” sung by Anna Fox Rochinski. The second was the fuzzed-out rocker “Tired & Buttered,” sung by Shane Butler. Now, we’re very excited to share … Continue reading
Listening to Morgan Delt’s latest little beaut will land you in a world full of cosmic colors and light shows. His self-titled album is to be released January 28th from Trouble In Mind. This 11 track collection will take you on a psychedelic adventure starting with mind-warping guitars and buried percussion sounding as if … Continue reading
With early fans that run the gamut from Skrillex to Marilyn Manson, The Orb to Gogol Bordello, Amy Lee and Terry Balsamo of Evanescence, producer/film composer Tyler Bates, System of a Down’s Serj Tankian and Slayer’s Dave Lombardo, Los Angeles-based Nostalghia will release its first album, Chrysalis, on April 1, 2014 (110 Records/INgrooves). The release is … Continue reading
Dead Rider’s third ride, Chills On Glass, is as distinct from the second time around as The Raw Dents was from their debut, Mother of Curses. The goal for Dead Rider, always: super-heavy, super-driving, more ‘up’ moments than ever before. An album experience; listening, you’re put through some changes. Illusions radiating out from the real. You’re rocked into submission, but … Continue reading
Ra Ra Riot loves their fans! As a big fat thank you for loving them in return they are sharing some music. Download a free live EP from the bands Fall 2013 tour. Follow the link below to start rocking! Download here:http://bit.ly/19TIZgK Or stream here. Continue reading
MORGAN DELT SHARES NEW TRACK FROM DEBUT ALBUM, OUT JANUARY 28TH ON TROUBLE IN MIND California native Morgan Delt recently announced his self-titled debut album, out January 28th on Trouble In Mind, and shared the excellent track, “Beneath The Black And Purple.” It’s the follow up to the ultra limited 6-song cassette, “Psychic Death Hole,” Morgan released earlier this year. Today, he … Continue reading
Following the success of the track “Bagboy” and the four-track “EP-1,” Pixies deliver again, rolling out “EP-2,” four more brand new songs – “Blue-Eyed Hexe,” “Magdalena,” “Greens and Blues” and “Snakes,” as well as a music video for “Blue-Eyed Hexe.” The new songs were recorded during October 2012 at Rockfield Studios in Wales, UK, were … Continue reading
TEMPLES ANNOUNCE DEBUT RECORD, SUN STRUCTURES, OUT FEB. 11 After a steady build up of stateside buzz and support, Kettering, England’s favorite psychedelic sons Temples are announcing their debut full-length, Sun Structures, outFebruary 11th on Fat Possum. It’s a record that’s destined to set out the band’s stall as Britain’s premier retro-futurists, with influences ranging from ’60s psychedelia to Motown, glam, and Krautrock, … Continue reading
Hailing from our own Sacramento area, Adrian Bourgeois is set to release his new album, Pop/Art, early next year, and the result certainly lives up to his aspirations for the album. Bourgeois has said the title “is as much a description as a statement of intent” and says that the goal was to bridge the … Continue reading
Boston-based Quilt are gearing up for a big 2014. January 28th will mark the release of their sophomore full-length Held In Splendor (Mexican Summer), and they’re announcing a huge tour that will start in Baltimore and take them across the whole country, from the Pacific Northwest to the South, and back to the East Coast. Also, they’re revealing a very different … Continue reading
Check out The Community’s new album, Non-Prophet and the super swell line up for their CD release show. You know we love each and every band listed. You know we will be there. You should go too. For more information about the show visit the Facebook event page. Continue reading
London, England’s Fanfarlo will release their new album, Let’s Go Extinct, on February 11th, 2014 on Blue Horizon, the British blues label revived by legendary record industry veterans Seymour Stein and Richard Gotteher. Recorded by the band and David Wrench in a tucked-away recording studio in North Wales, Let’s Go Extinct is, in many ways, the true successor to the band’s much-feted debut, Reservoir. Watch the trailer for … Continue reading
Love’s Crushing Diamond, the debut album by Mutual Benefit, aka the amorphous project of Jordan Lee‘s sometimes one-man-band, sometimes sprawling collective, is a powerful and heartfelt record of lush, watery, pop songs, inspired by the kinetic energy, goodbyes, and blurred landscapes of life on the road as Lee moved throughout the last several years from Ohio to Austin … Continue reading
Kim Deal may have left the band, but that is not going to stop us from going to the show. Pixies kick off their North American Tour on January 15, 2014. Dates are below. They are still rocking as hard as ever. Here is a look at their new music video What Goes Boom. JANUARY … Continue reading
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