While you can subscribe to the great Lounge Act podcast, the folks at WOXY.com are also cool enough to split these sessions into mp3s for individual consumption (which I used to do a lot until people asked me to stop). The latest Lounge Act session comes from The Walkmen, who are in town tonight (Tuesday) [...]
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If it’s loud, cathartic and Scottish, I’m probably into it. (In all honesty, if it’s quiet, uplifting and Scottish, chances are I’m into it.) Between The Twilight Sad and Frightened Rabbit, I’ve been introduced to a whole different level of anguish through song than I’m used to, a real visceral gut punch.Few albums in recent [...]
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Somewhere between The New Danger and his acting career, I fell out of love with Mos Def. Black on Both Sides was such a certified classic that I wanted so badly to like The New Danger, an album in which Mos was clearly to make some sort of lofty artistic statement (but only he knew [...]
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It’s not uncommon for me to wake up with any number of Telekinesis songs in my head, such is the pull of its contagious pop.That was the case this morning, and wouldn’t you know … a new video for Awkward Kisser, from the full-length debut Telekinesis!, is out.Remember: Telekinesis plays the Rhythm Room on May [...]
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I meant to post this last week when I saw it at URB, but a designer/artist by the name of Logan Walters has taken it upon himself to redesign the covers of Wu-Tang Clan-affiliated albums in the style of the classic Blue Note look. The results are fantastic.Says Walters: ” … almost all of the [...]
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Not sure how I missed this one, but I didn’t stumble upon it until browsing around the Brassland site. The National perform So Far Around the Bend, from the excellent Dark Was the Night compilation, on Jimmy Fallon.The band is joined by Nico Muhly, who arranged the song.
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While I’ve soured quite a bit on how Kings of Leon have fully embraced the artificial appearance of a walking rock cliche, I don’t think I had quite a full grasp on the band’s popularity until I learned today that its May 19 show at Mesa Amphitheatre is now sold out. In a sometimes-finicky/apathetic concert [...]
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So, let’s see here … we have another promising Scottish band on FatCat Records, home of The Twilight Sad and Frightened Rabbit. Yeah, I think I can get behind this.Much as I wanted to hate the name, it’s kinda clever. But what came first? The band name or this Threadless T-shirt?We Were Promised Jetpacks | [...]
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Rarely do I wear earplugs to shows (dumb, I know), but I’ll probably make a point of bringing a pair Saturday for The Life and Times show, a band that has the potential and the gear – a 26-inch kickdrum?? – to shake the foundation of our humble Modified.Started from the ashes of Allen Epley’s [...]
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DJ Z-Trip, probably one of the most-posted-about artists on this site, visited Jason Bentley and KCRW’s Morning Becomes Eclectic for an interview and a couple of great mixes.Z promised on Twitter and his forum that he’d make the sets available on his Web site … soon, I hope. In the meantime, KCRW is offering an [...]
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Jeremy Enigk is sharing a second song – Life’s Too Short – off his forthcoming album OK Bear (due out May 12 on his Lewis Hollow label).You might remember Mind Idea from a couple months ago. If categorizing a singer’s solo work in the context of his former band is your thing, then I’d say [...]
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The folks at online marketing and publicity firm RED are giving away a pair of tickets for every date of the Haiku D’Etat tour. That includes a May 20 stop at Chaser’s in Scottsdale (and May 19 at Club Congress in Tucson for that matter).Haiku D’Etat is the sorta haughty-sounding moniker for the trio of [...]
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I’m only about a month late on this, but Eric Steuer (aka Eriksolo from Meanest Man Contest) curated a soundtrack for a book, How to Break Bad News, by Tim Molloy. As Eric describes the book, it’s “about a reporter who goes undercover at a fast food restaurant chain to expose labor abuses – but [...]
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John Vanderslice continues to find new and unique ways to market his music and, more important, connect with fans on a more personal level.Last week, he was offering a wonderful gift with a pre-order of his new album Romanian Names: a letterpressed wallet containing a small snippet of analog tape, which contained unused music from [...]
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If there’s one album I’ve been turning to for repeat play in 2009, it’s the debut from Telekinesis (aka Michael Benjaman Lerner), appropriately titled Telekinesis!The record, produced by Death Cab for Cutie’s Chris Walla, is all quick and catchy power-pop but then ends with the pretty and somewhat fragile I Saw Lightning, a song that [...]
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In celebration of the 20th anniversary of 3 Feet High and Rising – 20 years! – URB is inviting readers to ask a couple questions that the magazine will then get to the group.I thought I was all ready to type in a question and then I became paralyzed: What can I possibly ask these [...]
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I touched on Mayer Hawthorne a little bit in November and now Stones Throw has some more tangible goodies from the soul revivalist.A 12-inch for Maybe So, Maybe No b/w I Wish It Would Rain will be released in May, but Stones Throw has a download of the single available for purchase, including instrumentals.The label [...]
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Baltimore’s Wye Oak, a member of the talented roster at Merge Records, was unable to find an unoccupied venue for a show in Phoenix on Friday, so the duo instead will play an in-store at Stinkweeds with touring partner Pomegranates.The show will get under way around 7 p.m. with Phoenix’s Turn Back, O Man. A [...]
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My wife was kind enough to record The Hold Steady’s appearance on Live from the Artists Den, a program on PBS that I’d never seen. The band played to what looked like a fairly full house in the Old Emigrant Savings Bank Building in New York, a structure that has been granted landmark status by [...]
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With the unveiling of the Metro Light Rail in December 2008, the greater Phoenix area finally has a decent mass-transit system on which to host busker-esque performances by local musicians. (Sorry, buses just won’t do.)Like the Black Cab Sessions, the folks behind the The Train Tracks capitalized on the novelty of public transportation in this [...]
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