February 17, 2012
When you think of Portland, you might think of good coffee, food trucks, people riding bikes and doing nature-y stuff. And sure, a ...
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February 10, 2012
Living in the good old U.S. of A., we take our musical freedoms for granted. There’s no Big Brother apparatus there ...
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January 27, 2012
San Francisco may be renowned for its psychedelic and punk scenes, but when’s the last time it birthed a real arena-rock ...
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January 20, 2012
Brooklyn’s Gowanus neighborhood just might be the dirtiest place in New York City. Decades of industrial use, sewage overflow and even ...
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January 13, 2012
Whether facing the world with an HD video camera or a boombox blasting Bing Crosby samples, one-man lounge act Guy Sands is ...
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January 6, 2012
20 years ago, Johnny Mathias, Teddy Mathias, Pete Mathias and Casey Gibson learned coordination and teamwork from skittering around Lake Michigan on a ...
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December 16, 2011
Mash-up is an ill-fitting term. I always imagine a squashed tomato. The art of making it and performing it is really more akin ...
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December 9, 2011
The seven members of Fierce Creatures make songs as coordinated as NFL strategists’ plays. There are hairpin verses leading to flat-out choral straights. ...
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December 2, 2011
“The main influence those bands had on us would be willingness to experiment and a penchant for jamming.” That’s Dillon Christensen talking ...
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November 18, 2011
“We actually started out as more of a ‘jam’ band, and I’m using that definition very loosely,” says Forest Gallien, bass ...
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November 11, 2011
If the Dirty Projectors had cousins out West, they’d be the band Body Parts. You’ll hear the resemblance right away in ...
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November 4, 2011
The Vickers is a band from Italy that sings in English and plays Brit-pop infused guitars. With us so far? If not, try ...
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October 28, 2011
The Canadian fivesome Cai.ro prefers the studio and stage to day jobs. If it isn’t music then these guys aren’...
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October 14, 2011
Against the faded flags of many Brooklyn outfits, My Pet Dragon stands out sharply. The group moves away from the roughed-up sounds of ...
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October 7, 2011
All at Sea by HiFi Phantom Most people look for sofas on Craigslist. The founding half of Canadian quartet HiFi Phantom was ...
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September 30, 2011
The field of lo-fi indie duos is crowded these days, forcing reviewers to use words like “jangly” a lot and reference Velvet Underground ...
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September 23, 2011
Gentlemen Hall plays such an interesting blend of synth-pop, dance and electro that it was really only going to be a matter of ...
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September 16, 2011
Bottle Up And Explode is a foursome from Auburn, AL, and it does not play country music. This is a band that ...
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September 9, 2011
A native of Reims, France, electro-popsmith Pierre Alexandre Busson of Yuksek studied piano at the Conservatoire Of Music for ten years before dropping ...
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September 2, 2011
“The world is ending,” sings Zach Reynolds in a bluesy drawl, “but at least I’ve got you…” Could he mean Tricia Purvis, ...
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August 26, 2011
The earth is quaking, hurricanes are blowing, but forget nature; let’s talk Dub Is A Weapon. The Brooklyn-based group has been ...
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August 19, 2011
The Melbourne-bred Brooklynites of Our Mountain have many key qualities of an old-school rock band: bluesy roots, a gritty, dark, intense sound, ...
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August 12, 2011
Including the title “princess” in the name of a dreamy, smart-mouthed psych-folk songstress runs the risk of being too perfectly fairytale-ish and quirky&...
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August 5, 2011
Los Angeles quartet Tic Tic Boom! began five years ago, when singer Leilani Francisco and guitarist Mike DeLay started dating. “I wrote a ...
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July 29, 2011
Mario Farrow, better known as SkyBlew, is not your typical rapper: His music doesn’t contain any curses. “I promised my grandmother before ...
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July 22, 2011
For Tom, Pat and Dan Murphy, the brothers who make up Philadelphia blues-rock band Penrose, originality stems from the big sound of blended ...
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July 15, 2011
It shouldn’t come as a surprise to learn that indie pop band Norton is from Portugal. With the unfamiliar accents and layers ...
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July 8, 2011
Eldridge Rodriguez is the solo project from Cameron Keiber, frontman for the Beatings. He steps away from the group setting in order to ...
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July 1, 2011
Upon hearing rap musician Nosaprise (real name Nosa Edebor) is from Houston, one can only think of the chopped and screwed genre but ...
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June 17, 2011
It’s a rule of thumb that, when you come across a band with an exclamation point in its name, you should prepare ...
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June 10, 2011
When asked about the Black And White Years‘ influences, Scott Butler (vocals, guitar, keys, words) gave a list of obvious answers—’80s bands ...
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June 3, 2011
Columbus, OH’s Wolf Ram Heart formed in 2008, but you could say that things really began when its frontman and songwriter, David James, ...
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