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It’s the time of year for basketball mayhem and new music. Here’s some more of what’s around the corner as far as music (you’re going to have to fill out your own bracket)
Free Energy from their debut LP of the same name on DFA Records (March 9)
Listen: Free Energy – Hope Child
The Drive-By Truckers [...]
By Alex Brenner
While most people think of treadmills when they think of OK Go, I think of hooks. This band could always write a great hook like “Get Over It” or “Lately It’s So Quiet”, and while they never seem to be able to settle on a sound of their own, their albums are still [...]
By Alex Brenner
While transferring all of my CD collection over to my new 1.5 TB drive, I noticed that although I consider myself to be well-versed in all that is indie rock/punk, I own a lot of metal. While I know it’s not cool to like metal anymore, I’m talking about some real unknown metal. [...]
Just the other day we reviewed his wife’s latest record (and shared the patio bar with her at Eddie’s), now we’re pleased to tell you that Josh Ritter’s new record will be released here in the states on May 4th. It will be called So Runs the World Away. Here’s the first track [...]
By Alex Brenner
It’s hard to be a female singer-songwriter. Usually they fall into three categories for me. You have the quirky Regina Spektor type, the poppy Lisa Loeb type, or the introspective Tift Merritt type. Dawn Landes falls into none of the above.
While her sound is definitely familiar, she really puts a new [...]
This link came in right about the same time as the new Squirrel Nut Zippers record and it sort of reminds of that band about 15 years ago, when Andrew Bird was still part of the band and they had just starting touring Hot and we saw them at the Black Cat in DC and [...]
The problem may be that we just don’t have a filter…
Here’s another quick post that doesn’t really fit but we actually watched the video all the way through so that must be worth something. Maybe it was just watching the declining cash account at the bottom (sort of like a train wreck) [...]
