Yikes, this list is extensive. A lot of groups MySpace labeled as punk/country are out there this week as well as ones from North Carolina. We’re not here to focus on things like that though, ...Related posts:New Album Releases For Tuesday 9/1/2009New Album Releases For Tuesday 2/17/2009New Album Releases For Tuesday 8/4/2009
Rating: 8.1/10The Assembly Line is hardly assembled. Since the ‘band’ began after Thorfin Nguyen’s previous efforts, he has been the only consistent face to associate with the name, as well as the man to talk ...Related posts:UK Pick of the Week: Goldheart AssemblyUK Pick of the Week: Assembly NowAlbum Review: The Penelope[s] - Priceless Concrete Echoes
Adding great music to our constantly growing list of ‘Bands You Must Know‘ is Screaming Lights. The UK band claiming home to Liverpool, marks one of this year’s best surprises, while satiating our UK rock ...Related posts:Show Review: Lights Resolve, ElevationBands You Must Know: The Answering MachineBands You Must Know - Pilot Speed
This week has lots and lots to offer. In fact, this week is one of the most exciting weeks for music this summer. Why you ask? Well simply because Nightmare of You is back with ...Related posts:New Album Releases For Tuesday 11/4/2008New Album Releases For Tuesday 8/18/2009New Album Releases For Tuesday 8/11/2009
A new label. A new direction. A brand new start for Division Day.Several years ago I reviewed Beartrap Island from Division Day and I just didn’t get it. Perhaps the 6.3/10 shows a naive outlook ...Related posts:Album Review: Division Day - Beartrap IslandNew Album Releases For Tuesday 8/18/2009
While The Bravery continues to hammer away details on their latest album and to set up tour dates for the Fall, we thought about hitting up “Tyrant” off of their 2005 self-titled debut album to ...Related posts:Director, The Angel Pier To Play At OXEGENAnthony Green’s video puts twist on DisneyThe Virgins tour heats up
Leaves in the River brought Alex Brown Church and the rest of Sea Wolf much further than the charming lead singer and guitarist could have asked for. Their live show turned an album we gave ...Related posts:Concert Review: Sea WolfCommercial Music: Santogold / Sea WolfAlbum Review: Sea Wolf - Leaves in the River
Let the glamorous U2 references roll from your tongue or even the rigid White Lies ones. Blacklist has emerged onto the stormy indie rock scene with Midnight of the Century off of Wierd Records, which ...Related posts:White Lies tour to hit US in MarchCold War Kids: Tonight on ConanVideo: Mute Math - Spotlight
The UK has our attention this week with Blur, Ciam, The Radio Department, Reverend & The Makers and Howling Bells.If we didn’t mention The Radio Department first, we would not be following up on our ...Related posts:New Album Releases For Tuesday 1/13/2009New Album Releases For Tuesday 2/17/2009New Album Releases For Tuesday 7/14/2009
2007’s Anytown Graffiti from Pela knocked the socks off of us and since then our expectations for the Brooklyn-based ensemble seem somewhat unrealistic. After reading an interview with lead man Billy McCarthy by Kutztown University’s ...Related posts:Insound Exclusive - Live at KEXP - Volume 4The Shore album updateBeck: All Of The ‘New Album’ News You Need To Know, Right Now
Sigur Ros and Riceboy Sleeps have enabled us to look at Iceland in a new light. We saw ambient, oxygen-fresh instruments painting what we have come to see as Icelandic indie music. When Seabear came ...No related posts.
Cookie-cutter songs and bands aren’t what we focus on here, so when we saw this week’s releasing groups we saw the influences of other artists, but we also saw some real talent waiting to be ...Related posts:New Album Releases For Tuesday 4/28/2009New Album Releases For Tuesday 5/5/2009New Album Releases For Tuesday 7/28/2009
Fishtown’s music scene is continuing to grow in Philadelphia. Within a four block radius, Johnny Brenda’s, The Barbarry, The M Room and now Kung Fu Necktie all cater to affordable shows with artists from around ...Related posts:MUF Interviews Paper RoutePaper Route Album Details, Tour Dates w/ CopelandLearning the Paper Route
The many pictures and videos we have seen from last weekend’s OXEGEN ‘09 festival were all we could have hoped for considering we weren’t in Ireland then. We have heard about the torrential rains on ...Related posts:Director, The Angel Pier To Play At OXEGENAngel Pier announces Sacrifice EP release dateMUF Catches Up With Angel Pier
Rating: 7.5/10To congeal a rock band in with a new, more innocent environment tends to lead to a discord of sorts that forgets the importance of flow and overall cohesion. For The Morning After ...Related posts:Album Review: Fulton Read - Indivisualize EPMy Morning Jacket: Evil Urges’ Album Cover RevealedMagnetic Morning Add The Album Leaf’s Jimmy LaValle, Tour Dates
As the summer rolls on we have many acts this week we are not quite familiar, but are not lacking talent either.David Cohn and Will Freyman, also known as Serengeti & Polyphonic, arrive on the ...Related posts:New Album Releases For Tuesday 7/21/2009New Album Releases For Tuesday 6/16/2009New Album Releases For Tuesday 6/30/2009
We last wrote about The Envy Corps when they were releasing Dwell on iTunes last summer, which was two months after the initial release. It’s really a shame to not hear more about them, so ...Related posts:It’s Not A Sin To Like The Envy CorpsVideo: Brian Aubert Grills Host at Hawaii ShowDirector’s I’ll Wait For Sound Release Dates Announced
A few of our favorite Irish groups, Director and Angel Pier, will be playing at the OXEGEN '09 festival in Punchestown, Ireland this coming weekend. Both groups will be the Saturday night headliners on the IMRO ...
The artists releasing this week caused us to do double takes. From The Rural Alberta Advantage (above) to Cass McCombs to Stellastar, a well-rounded week of music lies ahead.For fans of Vampire Weekend and Ra ...Related posts:New Album Releases for Tuesday 2/10/2009New Album Releases For Tuesday 6/2/2009New Album Releases For Tuesday 2/24/2009
Last year iTunes featured Sam Sparro’s “Black and Gold” as a free song of the week. Just recently we have been catching wind of a group perhaps even more deserving of some attention - ...Related posts:Video: The Maccabees - Can You Give ItVideo: Tigers Can Bite You - Second NatureNico Vega, Peasant among MTVU’s Freshmen videos
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