This Is Not The World, the third record from post-punk devotees The Futureheads, finds them not so much moving forward or backward as sitting still and reducing their sound to something more easily digestible. Think of it this way: If 2004's The Futureheads and...
As Minneapolis-based rockers Tapes ‘N Tapes—Josh Grier (guitar, vocals), Jeremy Hanson (drums), Matt Kretzmann (keyboards), and Erik Appelwick (bass guitar)—released their acclaimed sophomore album, Walk It Off, it was inevitable that a U.S. tour...
On a personal note, it needs to be said that I sat on The Ting Tings’ debut for a little over a week, listening to it repeatedly, trying to figure out what I liked about it and how I was going to review it. Then it occurred to me; at the dawn of the Eighties,...
It almost feels like sacrilege to say it, but more than most of the “new underground” bands that surfaced in the post-Nirvana maelstrom that suddenly found so many acts with readymade credibility (bands as far flung as The Flaming Lips, Constantines and...
Who would have thought that going home again would be the catalyst that Sloan needed to experience a rebirth? Having recently resurrected their own label, Murderecords, and rejoined its roster for the first time in sixteen years, Sloan established carte blanche for...
After watching Death Angel absolutely rule Slim's only three months earlier, I gotta admit that I didn't think there was any way that they could possibly do it again. Now that the band has been on tour for a few months (their first in over seventeen years) I...
When Ground Control photographer Muhammad Asranur caught The Dresden Dolls at The Fillmore in San Francisco, he experienced more than just a concert. In fact there was so much that GC's editors received an entire folder of photos dedicated to the goings-on...
If your echo-y vocals and plinking piano quota has been rather lacking this year, then take heart: The Walkmen have announced the release of their fourth album You & Me (fifth if you count Pussycats, which we totally do). The album—which was written over the...
Although it was the "coldness" of Ladytron's kraut-inspired analog drenched music that first attracted me to them, I have remained a huge fan of the band as their music has continued evolved. With each album Ladytron's sound has warmed and morphed...
Last year when Brant Bjork and his Bros released Somera Sol, it found the singer finally making his exit from the alt-stoner rock box he helped to furnish with Josh Homme in Kyuss for the grungier climes of Chicago-esque, martini-brandishing sardonic rock a la Urge...