The winners of the 2008 PLUG INDEPENDENT MUSIC AWARDS were unveiled last night (Thursday, March 6) during the sold-out awards ceremony and concert held at Terminal 5 in New York City. Sponsored by DELL, Ourstage.com, SESAC, Metromix, Lionsgate, iStockphoto,...
My, how time flies. It was seven years ago, almost to the day, that I attended my first Noise Pop show—an amazing evening at the Great American Music Hall featuring a little-known band called Jimmy Eat World. My college roommate and I drove to S.F. for the...
As paradoxical as it sounds, Hey Venus sounds precisely like what those unfamiliar with Super Furry Animals would expect an album by the band to sound like, but they never have until now and the band has honestly never sounded so good. For the first time, singer Gruff...
If one were to look up ‘idiosyncrasy’ in the dictionary—particularly one compiled and edited by the rock press—it’d be totally reasonable to discover a photograph of Mountain Goats’ singer/guitarist/mastermind John Darnielle next to...
Los Angeles natives Midnight Movies will be following up their second full length LP, Lion The Girl, with a brand new EP titled Nights out digitally this March 11. Midnight Movies expanded the neo-shoegaze movement on their aforementioned LP, and Nights aims to...
This is a very well produced film, featuring interviews with Klaus Voorman, Anthony De Curtis, Maureen Cleaves and Barry Miles, among others, and chock full of clips (with sound!) from The Beatles’ Ed Sullivan performances, the first US tour, the Royal Variety...
After six long years since the release of the The Notwist’s minimal-pop album Neon Golden, the band announced another full-length to hit the streets called The Devil, You + Me. The German-based band been busy working on side project after side project—13...
Let me start this review by saying I went to this show strictly to see Saviours. I have been listening to their new album, Into Abaddon, pretty much non stop since it was released earlier this year, and after missing them live more than a few times lately, there was no...
Colin Meloy has taken any number of jaunts sans his fellow Decemberists, and for those unwilling to believe, Colin Meloy Sings Live! will provide audio documentation of how wrong they can be. The album, out April 8th, captures the wayward Decemberists frontman on the...
It seems as if Dan Bejar has put some of his many other projects (The New Pornographers, Swan Lake and Hello, Blue Roses) on the temporary back burner in order to take his flagship, the HMCS Destroyer (not actually a ship in the Canadian Navy's fleet, just go with...