The two most dreaded words one can hear in advance of a new release: “Concept Album.” Sure, it can work for metal (Iron Maiden, Judas Priest) and prog acts (Yes, Genesis et al), punk and emo bands like Green Day…
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With turgid guitars and melodic lyrics, Australian post-punkers Soviet X-Ray Record Club revive the dark danceability of Joy Division on “Shake,” the first single from their debut album, Wake. Formed in 2012, the five-piece issued Wake in their native Australia…
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Formed after meeting at a local festival in 2014, the Bay Area trio of Will Durkee, Peter Domenici and Tom Conneely commenced recording days later, the result being the debut EP, Front Porch to Frontier, from the nascent band Great…
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With the festering urgency of American garage rock, Glasgow, Scotland’s Acting Strange deliver their sun-glazed first single, “Rumble.” From the forthcoming debut EP, Night on the Tiles, “Rumble” is lo-fi pop lovingly crafted by cousins Ali and Billy Strange. To…
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Stream or download the “Fuck Don Henley” July 2015 Feel Bad for You Mixtape featuring Guided By Voices / Have Gun, Will Travel / Indigo Girls / Neil Young + Promise of the Real / Billy Hubbard / Bambino /…
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Listening to “Time Tells Me” from Seattle duo Pony Time is akin to playing a Luna album at 78 RPM. Locked grooves, DIY attitude and Velvet guitar fuzz, the lead single from the fortuitous musical coupling of Luke Beetham and…
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Brooklyn-based singer/songwriter Mark Kraus has been through the highs and lows of life as a musician. As the founder of Boston’s Jr. Corduroy, the band’s 2002 release, I Don’t Want to be Around When You’re Gone for Good, was named…
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We throw it back to 2012 with the video for “Fabulous Friends” from Burn Up and Shine, the debut LP from NYC’s Gladshot, who are playing tonight in Philadelphia with local acts Lightninging and Purples. Riding high after their 2014…
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A step or two off the commercial pop path, Austin, Texas singer/songwriter Sally Crewe takes a narcissistic former lover to task on “Later Than You Think.” A hook-laden smackdown, the title track from her forthcoming Later Than You Think summons…
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Both honoring and skewering the post-Cobain ’90s when pop-punk acts like Weezer and Blink 182 held the limelight, Ontario, Canada’s Gregory Pepper needs just a minute to distill a half-decade’s worth of music down on “Welcome to the Dullhouse.” The…
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