I posted this to the Sly Oyster Tumblr a few days ago, but my buddy Zack, who is currently working in Afghanistan, said I have to post it on the main site and who am I to disagree with him. This sketch was part of a recent episode of The Soup. It’s hard to imagine [...]
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Blitzen Trapper’s new album, American Goldwing drops September 13 and from all available evidence, it sounds like the band has swung back towards that country-tinged sound that made Furr so successful. Not that there is anything wrong with the psychedelic, prog stomp of Wild Mountain Nation or Destroyer of the Void, because those albums are [...]
I doubted the Willy Week last year when they picked Sallie Ford over Typhoon, and I ended up eating a lot of crow once I got into Sallie Ford (review of her new album forthcoming, which is amazing, btw). So they’ve earned the benefit of the doubt based on their track record. I’m not too [...]
NPR has a first listen to the new record from The Antlers. “Burst Apart” is remarkably different from the bands first album, which was excellent but a bit of a downer. Two years after Hospice transformed The Antlers’ world, the Brooklyn band’s three affable, unassuming members faced the daunting task of producing a worthy sequel. [...]
Here’s the funny thing about the Strokes — there’s never been a more influential band that has never mattered less after their first album. It’s weird. The band has been fairly uninteresting since their debut, but so many young bands were influenced or changed by their first album. Anyways, will they become relevant again when [...]
Huh. I tried seeing Frightened Rabbit last Friday at the Paradise, but the concert was sold out. The next night on Saturday, this happened, from Stereogum: “Frightened Rabbit’s fourth single from The Winter Of Mixed Drinks, “The Loneliness And The Scream,” will be out in the U.S. in early December, and it’ll come with an [...]
EMusic has posted photos of indie rock stars in their childhood Halloween costumes. “This year for Halloween, we asked some of our favorite indie artists — among them Bon Iver, Superchunk and My Morning Jacket — to send us pictures of them in their Halloween costumes. The results are both charming and hilarious, the perfect [...]
