So Tape Deck Mountain is releasing an album called Ghosts on November 17, and you guys should all legally purchase it. I’m rather excited myself because I’ve just heard “Bat Lies,” which you can stream below, and it’s a really nice track. The song’s slow, but in a really pretty, strummed electric guitar sort of [...]
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Layered electronica. Acoustic guitar. Hushed female vocals. Yael Meyer. Oh, and bells, bells, bells.Meyer, a singer/songwriter and multi-instrumentalist, was born in Santiago de Chile and moved to the United States at 19 to attend the Berklee College of Music in Boston. She’s no longer that wide-eyed 19-year-old, currently spending her time in LA, yet she [...]
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It makes sense that Ólafur Arnalds‘ newest, Found Songs, doesn’t pack quite the same punch as Eulogy for Evolution does. In April, Arnalds composed and recorded a song daily for seven days, releasing each one to the web immediately. As a result, we have ourselves some Ólafur lite — while this isn’t the worst thing [...]
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The Flaming Lips are often called an “alternative” band by people like “Grammy award selection committees” and “moms who heard that one song they do,” but one look at any live show and one listen into their latest album, Embryonic, and you know the only way to classify this group is “art.”The band has always [...]
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Lee was playing soccer (how athletic!) so Jon and I flew this one solo AGAIN. But OH was there so much to talk about. Pitchfork's top 200 list in retrospect, trying to name all the countries in the world and I guess a little about the music of the last week. We do like to [...]
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I’m assuming there’s a whole legion of about four people out there who still watch LOST, and have stuck with it through five seasons. I’m one of them, so for the three people out there who care, this one’s for you!So basically it’s LOST Babies, and while it’s mostly what you would expect from something [...]
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Digits, the electronic indie pop project of Alt Altman, released his first full album, Hold It Close, on September 22. Altman, out of Toronto, typically sings with deep, monotone vocals over his layered electronic beats, but the song "Nonstop" features slightly more ranging vocals - something we take to kindly here at Knox Road. "Nonstop" [...]
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I guess I’m a day late on this, but the awesomeness here completely outweighs the lack of punctuality. It’s a new Modest Mouse video! It’s for “The Whale Song,” and looks like exactly what I’d expect from a Modest Mouse video. There’s sub-primitive Iron Man technology, Isaac Brock playing the guitar while sort of floating, [...]
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You might think we’re all doom and gloom here at Knox Road, and if that’s the case, well, you’re wrong! Haha! We like all sorts of happy things too. Like kittens. And Tim Minchin.So who’s Tim Minchin, you ask? Well, he just so happens to be an Australian musician/comedian who writes songs with funny lyrics [...]
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Continuing the growing Knox Road trend of featuring artists who provide little to no information about themselves (see: Hello, Broken Arrow and Manet,) I present to you Antiqcool, from just outside Chester, England. As far as I can tell (and have been told,) Antiqcool is the project of Pete Smith and various friends. When I [...]
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Wildlife is one of those albums that’s really hard to have a confident opinion about. I’m sure you know the type: you know the music is good, and the band is obviously talented, but you can’t really say why it works. Just me? Oh.Anyway, Headlights‘ Wildlife is that album. The sound has a certain haziness [...]
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Few bands have evolved as beautifully as The Raveonettes. They have always had an admittedly apparent 50s pop influence, but the band started as something more rough and tumble. The first track on their first release, “Attack Of The Ghost Riders” from 2002’s Whip It On, is intensely dark and harder-edged. From there, they patiently [...]
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The Life of the World to Come is as much a book of tales as it is music. We already are well-aware of John Darnielle’s deft and stimulating storytelling ability, but he takes “story” to a new level on The Mountain Goats‘ latest. With biblical references for song titles, The Life of the World to [...]
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Brooklyn’s ArpLine (formerly The Kiss Off) are destined for great things. Having finished recording a full-length with producer Chris Coady (Grizzly Bear, TV on the Radio, Yeah Yeah Yeahs, Blonde Redhead,) the five-piece crew are ready to release the album later this year and we have the first single for you in “Fold Up Like [...]
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Finally, you can listen to the entirety of the Knox Road Radio (every noon - 2 p.m. ET) show this week! Woo hoo! See that little play button below? Yeah, that's our show. So listen up! This one was extra special because we played Hands and Knees' live performance from last week when they [...]
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So Frightened Rabbit, who is really awesome, is releasing a single on November 16, and it's going to be really awesome. I'm super serious, guys! Midnight Organ Fight was one of the best albums of 2008, so my hopes are high for the next album, which is set to come out sometime next year. FatCat Records [...]
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Hot on the heels of Song, by Toad Records’ latest success with Meursault comes Jesus H. Foxx (don’t be thrown off by the name, please), a seven-piece outfit out of Edinburgh, Scotland (where else? It is Song, by Toad’s label anyway…). Jesus H. Foxx mix several different genres of music, which is perhaps easier with [...]
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Oh my god, you guys, new Nirvana! I was looking for a recent press photo, but couldn’t find a good one. Don’t worry, I’ll keep looking. There’s gotta be a new one out there!Anyway, this is an unreleased version of “Scoff,” which comes with the upcoming deluxe reissue of Bleach. It’s really good quality, and [...]
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I wasn’t even going to look at the inbox tonight as I’m off to go see Sunny Day Real Estate at the 9:30 club, but it’s a good thing I did, because I found this gem: Peter Bradley Adams is streaming his entire new album, Traces (officially due out 10/20,) on his website. We’ve written [...]
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A lot of the material we've heard from the new Raveonettes album, In And Out Of Control, is pretty bleak. It's all about sadness and rape (??) and stuff, all in the style of old 50s pop tunes revamped for the 21st century. So does the video for their new song, "Last Dance," match that [...]
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