With the release of Midnight Movies' lauded LP, Lion the Girl, lurking (April 24 on New Line Records), the quartet is poised to bring its haunting melodies to a city near you. The band's 60s-inspired sounds will serve as a perfect aperitif to the...
Kings of Leon's new record, "BECAUSE OF THE TIMES," has debuted at #25 on the Billboard Top 200, selling 41,919. This is the band's biggest one-week of sales in America to date, and doubles their prior best week. Kings of Leon mania has also spread to...
Feist will hit the road this June in support of her stunning new release, The Reminder, in stores May 1st on CherryTree/Interscope. 6/8/07 – Northampton, MA @ Calvin Theatre +6/9/07 – Boston, MA @ Berkelee Performance Center+6/11/07 – New York, NY @...
What's it called when you see something for the first time, and then you see that same thing or hear that same word something like seven times over the next week? Is there a name for that? That's really strange when that happens, but really when you think about...
With bands like Tapes n’ Tapes that fizzled out almost as quickly as they caught ear last year, it’s difficult to be indie, ironic and straightforward at the same these days (unless you’re Art Brut). What The Hell Do I Know? is another EP ready to...
So the saying goes, there's a first time for everything. This past Saturday night was my first time at a show alone. Not bad, just new. It left a lot of time for thumb-twiddling and eavesdropping. "It was at the Gibson Amphitheater and Genesis was...
You know who I had forgotten about until just now? The White Stripes. Sure, there was the Raconteurs album, but there was a concerted effort on the part of Jack White to make sure that wasn't a WS side project. So really, after five or six years of an almost...
If you have ears, a beating heart and breathe air, then you probably have a soft spot for Nick Drake, and a desire to hear anything that this brilliant musician ever touched or recorded. For me, I would even take a rare answering machine recording of him if one was...
We're pretty unapologetic around at GC about our love for M. Ward, and for good reason. Other people seem to like him too, which is how he gets to play shows (and record stuff, too!) with the impossibly cute Zooey Deschanel and play on Letterman with people like...
Cautionary is a klaxon’s purpose. Neither rave nor new, the electromechanical alerts found on submarines and old automobiles are sounded to warn listeners of the vehicle’s arrival, departure or danger; and England’s “new-rave”...