The ever-hip kids over at Stereogum just announced some radness: the online-only release of OKX: A Tribute to OK Computer. The album, corresponding with the ten year anniversary of Radiohead's groundbreaking album–you remember the one everyone hated at the...
Spaceland has a star, and his name is Finn Andrews, front man and innovator of the British pop-noir band, the Veils. If the road to art is hard and winding (which it couldn’t be for the progeny of XTC keyboardist Barry Andrews), then Finn is irked by every moment...
Let’s get it out of the way: what is Simian Mobile Disco? It’s undoubtedly one of the more unusual names in music today. But doing some investigative sleuthing, or really just putting two and two together, the name itself isn’t much of a conundrum....
With certain bands, the fanboy tendencies that writers try to suppress go right out the window, along with any sort of journalistic objectivity. Luckily, we don't have to be all that objective, since criticism is by nature subjective. That being said, we love The...
I’m not sure why, but every time I had Made Out of Babies’ 2006 release Coward playing in my car, I usually just ended up getting stared at with a look that said, “dude?!” Well, I thought the New York band rocked hard and the chick lead singer,...
Joining a roster that tugs between roots-based music and reeling noise punk on Thurston Moore's Ecstatic Peace Records, the newly inducted James Toth has taken sides and forged ahead without a look back over his shoulder. Dropping the ever-changing latter half of...
From the moment I walked up to the Key Club in Los Angeles for the final regional qualifier for the U.S. Air Guitar Championships, I knew this night would be amazing. What tipped me off was my first glimpse at a few of the contestants making their way into the venue...
2007 has turned out to be a pretty spectacular year for music in our opinion. So much so that we wanted to share our Top 10 records of the year…so far. Mark Ziemke1. The National – Boxer 2. The Bees – Octopus3. Land of Talk – Applause Cheer Boo...
Once upon a time in January, Division Day was on the verge of taking the indie world by storm. They’d recorded a record—Beartrap Island—at John Vanderslice’s Tiny Telephone studio, which was garnering all sorts of pre-release buzz in the blogs....