Review: Drag The River – You Can’t Live This Way
I loved Drag The River’s 2006 album, It’s Crazy, so I was more than a little saddened when I learned that the band was breaking up last year, but was even more thrilled to find out that the band was releasing one final album. You Can’t Live This Way was recorded before but released after (Read more…)
Review: Hot Water Music – Till The Wheels Fall Off
If you’ve been reading this blog for long or if you’ve checked my last.fm profile, you know that both my wife and I love Hot Water Music and their double-fisted melodic post-hardcore fury. While there aren’t any new songs on Till The Wheels Fall Off, as it is a collection of songs from splits, comps, (Read more…)
We Don’t Care About the Young Folks
Yeah, Dawn Landes is pretty freakin’ good. There’s nothing like a Southern belle playing indie-folk to make the guys go giddy. Plus, who wouldn’t want a bluegrass cover of “Young Folks?” MP3 | Dawn Landes – Bodyguard Fireproof MP3 | Dawn Landes – Young Folks (Peter Bjorn and John Cover)
Review: Mighty Mighty Bosstones – Medium Rare
Really? Seriously? I didn’t know. The Mighty Mighty Bosstones recently released a compilation album, Medium Rare, that includes a bunch of b-sides , vinyl-only tracks, and (the best part) three new tunes. I thought they broke up, but (as evidenced by the new songs) the band hasn’t missed a single skankin’ beat. MP3 | Mighty (Read more…)
It came from the nineties (Vol. 14)
I remember painting houses one summer back in the mid 90’s and listening to a lot of Luniz, Bone Thugs, and Beastie Boys. Good times indeed. MP3 | Blind Melon – No Rain MP3 | Veruca Salt – Seether MP3 | Luniz – I Got 5 On It MP3 | Savage Garden – Truly Madly (Read more…)
Review: Bruno Pronsato – Why Can’t We Be Like Us
Seattle-based laptop sound manipulator Bruno Pronsato (aka Steven Ford) has a new album called Why Can’t We Be Like Us. It is full of playful minimal techno tracks that sound like they were meticulously crafted by an artist’s hand. Percussive elements and beats bounce against flickering organic sounds that seem to be floating somewhere out (Read more…)
Review: The Felice Brothers – Tonight At The Arizona
I’ve been hearing about The Felice Brothers for a few months now and finally got my hands on a copy of Tonight At The Arizona; a magical album. The band is comprised of brothers Simone, Ian, and James Felice, and a buddy named Christmas and they play some truly threadbare country-folk that sounds so honest (Read more…)
Review: Slingshot Dakota – Their Dreams Are Dead, But Ours Is The Golden Ghost
With many two-piece rock bands (The White Stripes, Matt & Kim, The Like Young, etc…) there are limitations when serious overdubbing isn’t involved. But with basically only overdriven keyboards and steady propulsive drumming, Slingshot Dakota manages to create a racket that seems worlds larger than the sum of its parts. Slingshot Dakota is a duo (Read more…)
