There are a lot of things Texas can’t seem to get right — weather, politics, race relations, Presidential hospitality — but Texans don’t have to make any apologies for their…
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I’m still a little disappointed that it isn’t a concept album of duets with Shirley MacLaine, but whatever — Death Cab for Cutie’s Ben Gibbard is stepping out as a…
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Not that there are any body parts I’d want to keep in a jar, but the heart seems like a particularly grody choice, what with all of its aortas and…
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I’m not necessarily advocating watching it unless you have a hankering for blood and mud, but the Vigo Thieves have released a video for their new single “Forever” — and…
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“I don’t need to talk / You fucked up, not me,” sings Liz Wood in her new single, “Ruin” — our first glimpse of her upcoming EP, Into My Own,…
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Canada, hip-hop, and senior citizens ballroom dancing: They sound like the ingredients for a round of Mad Libs, but in this case, they’re the winning formula behind Friends with the…
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Listen, I don’t know about you, but the idea of a week that goes from Saturday to Monday really pisses me off. A one-day weekend? No football season? Total bullshit….
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Their band name seems like the work of evil hipsters, but ON AN ON’s debut single, “Ghosts,” is like a really good day boiled down to five minutes and change…
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Some artists take time to find their footing, but 16-year-old Cara Mitchell is already playing squarely to her strengths as a songwriter and performer — at least if “Passing Sun,”…
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Behold, that rarest of pop animals: The five-minute song that actually feels too short. I’m not kidding — I was actually sort of pissed when State Broadcasters‘ “Trespassers” ended, because…
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Hola, amigos! I know it’s been a long time since I rapped at ya about the greatness of Julian Velard, but good news — Brooklyn’s baddest pop songwriting wizard is…
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During my 20s, when I was a callow and heartbroken youth, I went on a catastrophic date with a woman who spent half of our dinner talking about her dreams…
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What’s a winterval? It’s like an interval, only colder, I guess — and it’s also the latest hypnotic eight-minute track from electronic artist Sam Willis, who’s getting ready to release…
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Happy Hump Day, dear readers! To celebrate, here’s a video from a young blooze-rock quartet whose songs sound like they’re probably pretty much all about humping. I mean, not that…
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Trails and Ways’ latest single boasts a martial beat, dreamy vocals breathing life into an addictive melody, and the band is out promoting a good cause in the bargain. I…
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Everyone is fixated on Mars right now, but for a couple of Boston-area musicians, it’s far more interesting to contemplate Life on Venus — and after listening to their latest…
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Pitch in to help fund the mastering and pressing of Ash Reiter’s new album and you could end up going on a skydiving trip!
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Gorgeous two-part harmonies match the natural seashore beauty of Berkely-based Big Tree’s brand new video.
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Sultry and smooth, DRMS (pronounced “dreams”) is a San Francisco Bay Area based band comprised of the cream of the crop of today’s young, jazz-trained working musicians.
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Hannah Georgas, where have you been all my life? I’m going to have your deliciously atmospheric “Enemies” on repeat for much of the summer, I just know it. [youtube id=”RFQ2advYqJ0″…
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They look like they have a combined age of maybe 48 — and they actually might, as their press release says they’re all under 20 — but the Blackwell brothers,…
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Chrystian Rawk gives an unlikely chamber pop treatment to a punk classic by Rancid. What?
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My favorite album of the 2011, by a landslide, was only recently released in the United States. I ordered it last May from Amazon.co.uk and it was worth every pound….
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The latest single from the band’s latest album, The Echo Show, arrives in my inbox just in time for 90-degree heat and a couple of kids out of school. This sounds…
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It’s no secret we love Brandon Schott around here — we’ve interviewed the man, and we gave his latest album, 13 Satellites, a
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Watch a video collaboration between Dar Williams and progressive website The Message.
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Well, he told us that song he released earlier this week wasn’t actually the first single from his upcoming album, and apparently he meant it: Mika’s “Celebrate,” embedded below, is…