Heidi Spencer And The Rare Birds – Under Streetlight Glow

March 23, 2011, By Brianne Galli

Milwaukee native Heidi Spencer doesn’t blast through your speakers on her debut album. Instead, Spencer walks out from the stage wings modestly, accompanied primarily ...

Grito Rock Comes To The US With Constantina

March 22, 2011, By Brendan Mehan

The independent Brazilian-based music festival series, Grito Rock, comes to New York tomorrow night for its United States debut show. The festival will debut with ...

Brian Eno Falls ‘To Earth’ With New Documentary

March 22, 2011, By Brianne Galli

Brian Eno has been a music producer, composer, music theorist, singer, and visual artist among other titles, but come May 17, he will be immortalized in ...

Benefit Show For Zigmat’s Dan Duggins Announced

March 22, 2011, By Brendan Mehan

A benefit show will be held for Dan Duggins next month at Clash Bar in Northern New Jersey. Duggins, the drummer for the acclaimed electro-latin-pop ...

Javelin Dons Proverbial Cowboy Hat, Tours N. America

March 22, 2011, By Brianne Galli

Family duo Javelin is going on a North American tour in support of its upcoming release, Canyon Candy, a collection of songs inspired by western ...

CJLO Calls For A Signal To Noise

March 22, 2011, By Brianne Galli

Montreal’s CJLO begins its Signal To Noise concert series for Pakistani flood relief today through Thursday at Casa Del Popolo, helping to fund UNICEF’...

Algodón Egipcio – La Lucha Constante

March 22, 2011, By Ari Lipsitz

Venezuelan ambient pop artist Ezequiel Bertho, under the name Algodón Egipcio (Spanish for “Egyptian cotton”), has crafted a lush collection of Spanish-language electronic songs ...

Dengue Fever Releases Golden Tickets For Record Store Day

March 21, 2011, By Ari Lipsitz

Dengue Fever, the Los Angeles/Cambodian pop band, is pulling a Willy Wonka: In support of Record Store Day, the release of the band’s ...

SXSW Report: Boy And Bear, Puro Instinct, Toro Y Moi

March 21, 2011, By Marisa Aveling

It’s Sunday. The Texas sun has turned me pink, the continuous loop from venue to venue has turned my feet into bricks, and the ...

Brennan Dylan – “Bullet Ride”

March 21, 2011

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SXSW Report: Trash Talk, Death On Two Wheels, Black Lips

March 21, 2011, By Brendan Mehan

Austin’s downtown took a weird beating on Thursday. Not only was it the second day of SXSW, but it was also St. Patrick’s ...

Pharoahe Monch – W.A.R. (We Are Renegades)

March 21, 2011, By Dan Jackson

After including a nine-minute trilogy song on 2007’s slept-on Desire, it shouldn’t be surprising that polysyllabic pyrotechnic Pharoahe Monch would get a little prog-y ...

Death Set: Nasty As They Wanna Be

March 21, 2011, By Lisa Hresko

Johnny Siera and Dan Walker, two-thirds of prankster punk band the Death Set, are visiting friends and family in Australia post-tour; drummer Jahphet Landis is ...

Popp Da Rippa – “Break Dat”

March 20, 2011

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Preview: Christoph Andersson – “Getaway”

March 18, 2011, By Brianne Galli

At 19 years old, electro-pop artist Christoph Andersson is producing music that’s both mature and fresh. His sounds come out of the city of New ...

NMR 1191: Dodos In Technicolor

March 18, 2011

Cut Copy‘s stay on top was cut short this week because Radiohead is like a total freakin’ rockstar from Mars: The King Of Limbs ...