Archive: september 17, 2008

Autumn Music: Videotape - "Night Lights"

Autumn is just around the corner and upon hearing Videotape's 'Night Lights", sent to me by my friend alliemuffinbasket, I realize it can't come soon enough.
Maybe it's the song's lo-fi haziness or the Galaxie 500 meets Shins vibe that immediately conjures up visions of that colorful time of year and... Read more

Awesomely Weird Electro-Funk: Passion Pit - "Sleepyhead"

"Sleepyhead" from Boston's Passion Pit, aka Michael Angelakos and friends, is a fucked up mix of MGMT, The avalanches and mutated samples that could easily be mistaken as munchkins from The Wizard of Oz.
As the music travels down that yellow brick road of drugged-out dream-pop, the beats get crunchier... Read more

The Happy Hollows

It was pretty startling to me that, after listening to only one track from The Happy Hollows, I was able to draw comparisons to nearly every single notable indie-rock band fronted by a woman in the past several years. Now, before you jump to any premature conclusions by declaring instantaneous comparison... Read more

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Sep 17 Album Review: Bruce Robison - The New World

By Bruce Robison’s estimation, roots music in this digital day and age needs to be a lot rootsier than its current status affords it. It’s getting a little too slick and his latest album, The...

Sep 16 Album Review: Darius Rucker - Learn To Live

The barometer by which Darius Rucker’s stint as a country artist will be measured isn’t critical acclaim, but rather commercial success. Therefore, it shouldn’t be any surprise that Live...

Sep 16 Taylor Swift - “Love Story”

Songwriter: Taylor Swift An obvious criticism of Taylor Swift’s “Love Story,” the debut single from her upcoming sophomore effort Fearless, is that the song, muddled by its prominent...

Sep 15 Breathe Electric // Honestly

Illinois-based Breathe Electric is one of my newest finds that's keeping my headphones occupied. In the growing genre of homegrown electropop bands, Breathe Electric seems to have grown in fame out of...

Sep 12 The Feeling - Join With Us - Single Review

The musical equivalent of the credit crunch is happening in the Indie scene at the moment, and it seems The Feeling may be ..er.. feeling the pinch. Join With Us is the title track from the band’...

Sep 12 Leon Jackson - Don’t Call This Love - Single Review

The long-awaited and marginally hyped second single from Leon Jackson is hitting the stores in October. Let’s just remind ourselves of what we said last Christmas when Leon was storming the chart...

Sep 11 Recommended: The Good Natured

A reader shot us an email this afternoon to share the amazing electro-songwriting talents of Sarah McIntosh. Sarah performs and records under the name of The Good Natured. So good was the nature of the...

Sep 10 Alice In Chains return with new frontman, new album

You can’t stop the rock reunions. Alice In Chains are the latest act to reform, despite the sticky issue of having a deceased lead singer. It’s been 13 years since the band’s last album...

Sep 9 Pop Chart Round-up - 7 September 2008

Yikes! Can you believe our last chart run-down was way back in June? We’re sure you understand, folks. When the pop chart doesn’t change substantially from week to week, is there any point...