Of Montreal Skeletal Lamping Roxy Satarzadeh 8.5 out of 10 Remember when your mom packed your lunch as a kid? Mondays and Wednesdays were turkey and swiss, Tuesdays and Thursdays were ham and cheese, and Fridays were peanut butter and jelly? That's what I liken today's music scene to: it's pretty much the same old, same old. Nice, but mostly expected. Then there were the times your mom threw in
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Brazilian Girls New York City 7.5 out of 10 By Roxy Satarzadeh Remember the time you discovered Pop Rocks as a kid - the first time you tore open the package, emptied out all those colorful sugar crystals into your hand, threw your head back and opened your mouth not knowing what to expect? Remember how wide your eyes got as the tiny crystals bounced around the inside of your mouth, and the tingl
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Animal Collective. What are they? They've been called everything from experimental, to noise-rock, to psych-folk, to indie-rock. And with names like Panda Bear, Geologist, Avey Tare, and Deakin, one has to wonder if they're genius or crazy.I've tried to like them...I really have. And believe me, I've tried to hum their melodies to myself in the car. As much as I like the song "Peacebone," I just
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Indie's story-tellers are back and they have a three volume series of singels to show for themselves. They've just announced they will be releasing Always The Bridesmaid: A Singles Series this fall online and on 12" vinyl. The series will be available digitally at DSPs, released by Capitol Records, and on 12" vinyl via The Decemberists' own label, Y.A.B.B. Records/Jealous Butcher Records. Fan...
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Sonic Youth just don't know when to stop do they? And that's a good thing for us. At last week's McCarren Pool in Brooklyn, the indie-rock legends played the last show ever there by opening with two new songs. The songs are so new that they neither have titles nor lyrics. Though Thurston Moore explained to crowd that the band had just began writing material for their new album a few days ago, henc
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Super-sensitive British rockers, Snow Patrol, have just announced the US release date for their 5th studio album. A Hundred Million Suns will hit American soil on October 28. The album which was recorded both in Berlin and Ireland is the follow-up to the 7 times platinum Eyes Open. The album features the single "Take Back the City", the video of which will be directed by Alex Courtes (White Stripe
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If Pixies fans were holding their breaths for a new album since 1991's Trompe Le Monde, many of them would have passed out by now. Well Frank Black's asking them to hold out a little longer. In a recent with NME.com, Black mentions that a new album is not out of the question. "I have to see if the band as a whole wants to go into the recording studio for a new record," he says. "That makes sense o
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Once I finally get the hang of this thing, they come and tell me it's over? The final day or Outside Lands Festival in Golden Gate Park got off to a nice slow start with some french toast and temperatures in the low seventies. I was starting to get to that point that everyone gets to at festivals where they no longer push their way to the front for a band, but instead grab a drink and chill in the
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Second time's a charm? Well I seemed to think so today. After braving the elements the first night of Outside Lands festival in Golden Gate Park, I came prepared today with three sweaters and a pair of comfortable shoes. The day was nice enough with the sun gracing San Franciscans with its rare presence and temperatures in the high 60's.With spirits high, we arrived around 2 only to face a huge en
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It's about one in the morning here in SF and my feet still ache just as much as they did three hours ago when a mass of 60,000 of us tried to exit Golden Gate Park, the site of this years Outside Lands Festival. As with every music festival known in the history of man, a swift exit was just not in the cards for us. After the crowd tore down a fence, we trampled through the forest and the trees in
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