Hey, it’s been a pretty good year for music! After 2008 was widely declared a disaster from which only a few gems survived, 2009 had a lot of ground to make up. From Animal Collective and Washed Out to The xx and Fever Ray to Sea Wolf and Dark Was The Night, we had a [...]
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Yeahhhhhh! SO MUCH exciting music from 2010. Sorry 2009, and well, the rest of the decade, but we like to look ahead just as much as we like to look back. That being said, The Go Find (nee Dieter Sermeus), a premier electronic pop artist (erm, suck it, Owl City…apologies to Sermeus for featuring the [...]
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HA, getting ya at all sorts of random times! You just have to stay tuned if you want a piece of mixery. For those who don’t know, this is iTunes Mixery part ocho. Here’s how it goes: I play iTunes on shuffle -> tell you which song comes up -> provide the mp3 and a [...]
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Very little is known about B for Butterfly, except that they’re a male/female duo from the UK. Two songs are available to stream on their MySpace, and they sent us both, but “Photograph” is the one that my ears have taken to and displays a fair amount of potential. The harmonies are obviously B For [...]
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Up-and-coming band Ruse of Fools just released a video for their single “The Flood,” and whoa, some guy on their YouTube channel said it was the best video he’s seen in the past 10 years. When I saw that, I chuckled and said — and excuse my language — “that is highly unlikely.”Well then I [...]
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ZOMG, the 52nd annual Grammy Award nominees are out and they’re SO bad it’s actually funny. Unlike last year when they were so bad it was just all awkward glances and kicking nonchalantly at the ground. Nono, this time they’re really going for the ol’ We’re Old And Irrelevant Award. Case and point in the [...]
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Hot Chip is so exciting everybody! We all love them with all our hearts, right? I do. “[Like Hot Chip] right or pay the price!!” a surly camp counselor once said. Well there’s more of them to love now that their catalog of music has grown by one song! They’ve released “One Life Stand” off [...]
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File in the “awesome” category: Shearwater just provided us with a new mp3 off their forthcoming sixth full-length, The Golden Archipelago. Created as a side project of Okkervil River members Will Sheff and Jonathan Meiburg, Shearwater is a heavier, folksier version of Okkervil River. Imagine that. Meiburg’s vocals are a standout on Shearwater’s stunningly evocative [...]
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Sally Seltmann, best known to me as her now-defunct moniker, New Buffalo, will be releasing a new full-length (and the first under her own name), Heart That’s Pounding, in Spring 2010. There are already quite a few buzzworthy 2010 albums to be excited about, but this one will be near the top of my list. [...]
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Story time, you guys! So, over the summer, I was driving to work in the morning. It was a beautiful day, and I was playing Shout Out Louds‘ “Please Please Please,” one of my favorites from their album Howl Howl Gaff Gaff. Anyway, to make a long(ish) story short, I drifted off the road and [...]
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Recently brought to my attention by the one and only Abby (from Abby’s Road fame – duh), Lymbyc Systym, otherwise known as brothers Jared and Michael Bell, have become a fast-rising act. Their newest full-length, Shutter Release, dropped November 3 and has been earning critical acclaim for its forceful and dreamy instrumental nature. The Bells [...]
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Ted Leo & The Pharmacists are prepping a new album for 2010! Cool, right? Cool. The veteran indie rock group is calling the LP The Brutalist Bricks and Matador Records is calling it “one of those career-defining, ‘can you believe what you’re hearing?’ kinda records that makes most other activity the day you first play [...]
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Whenever someone asks me to name my dream supergroup, I immediately say something to the effect of “the dude from Mew, that one guy from Coldplay, and another one from the ’80’s group A-ha.” And then we all laugh sarcastically. And then we pee on walls and stuff, because we’re men, dammit.But anyway, jokesupergroupsaywhat?Jonas Bjerre, [...]
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Editor's Note: We're proud to announce a new feature here on Knox Road, aptly titled "Abby's Road". Abby will be a continual contributor to the blog, but will be writing about something very different than what you're used to from KR. She has an extensive depth (and breadth) of musical knowledge (as well as a [...]
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If any of you (maybe, one, two?) were reading the blog at this time last year, you’ll remember I posted a little something about hometowns and their glory and all that. I actually didn’t say anything, but I got you in the mood. With Adele. Because, duh, she always gets you in the mood. It [...]
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I guess it makes sense to package together "These Hands" and "January Twenty Something," the four minute one-two punch that begins WHY?'s Eskimo Snow. The songs themselves are tonally different, which makes the sudden change from fantastical, bizarre narrative to live band performance work. And even if you don't like either half of the video, [...]
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Citay, the ever-revolving collective from San Francisco, have announced their newest LP, Dream Get Together (due January 26 via Dead Oceans), and are providing a free mp3 to preview the album. “Careful With That Hat” is much tighter and well-strung pop than previous Citay material, which progressed in a lazy manner and was more downtempo. [...]
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SXSW just announced 230 showcasing artists for this year’s festival, and there are plenty more to come! Who knows, this could be the biggest year yet for SXSW, if that’s even possible. Take a peek at the full list after the jump, taken from SXSW’s website.SXSW 2010 Showcasing Bands*Information subject to change*Aa (Brooklyn NY)Acid Mothers [...]
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As I was packing this morning to head home for Thanksgiving I decided I needed something upbeat spinning in the background. I know, “upbeat” and Lee? Not usually associated with each other. (Just kidding, though Jamie would lead you to believe otherwise.) So I surfed through the overflowing inbox (a good thing – we don’t [...]
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Looking back at the past decade was tough for us at Knox Road. This was the decade we grew up in. We went through puberty, graduated high school and drank our first beers to this music. So when looking at what music is the “best” of the decade, it’s damn near impossible to separate the [...]
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