Where the Billie Holiday and Kate Bush comparisons are easy, there are contemporary touches from those of Imogen Heap and Cat Power that make The Reminder a very “present” recording. The one failing of The Reminder is that it doesn’t live up to Let It Die, but in Feist’s terms, she’d rather be intimate than play “can you top this.”
e Sea and Cake’s disposition has long been one of elation; Sam Prekop’s lifted vocals drifting above shimmering pop constructions. That disposition remains unchanged on Everybody, the Chicago quartet’s seventh full-length offering and its first in four years.
In between hitting live shows this weekend, why don’t you make the most of the $100 you spend each month for cable and set your DVR to record these shows…
Wednesday night presented a truly inexplicable double bill, and everyone that asked me where I was headed heard the same sheepish response: “Well, it’s a band most commonly called chk chk chk, but it’s really three exclamation points that can be pronounced with any three repetitive mono-syllabic grunts. Oh, and Holy Fuck is opening.” Okay, but then how do I pronounce chk chk chk?
The name dissection thing’s getting old, but it’s hard to escape your own branding. And when you’ve emblazoned the scarlet !!! on your traveling marquee, you best be prepared to bring the triple-exclamatory noise and/or funk. Luckily for my fellow speed-freak showgoers at the sold-out Bowery Ballroom, this quasi-hometown, eight-piece dance-punk troupe tore up the joint with a lively mix of rabidly energetic tunes from the new Myth Takes album and Louden Up Now.
Read on for more great Danfun photos and the rest of this evening’s review…
We’ve got a double dose of our regular Friday “The Kidzz Are Alright” subset of Pullin’ ‘Tubes. So instead of wasting time with our usual pre-video blather, let’s jump right into the
Instead of outsourcing this end-of-the-week department to cheaper Indian or Chinse laborers, I’ve decided to take another stab at it myself. This week’s blends together some of the least eclectic tunes you’ll
Genesis returned to the stage last week to play three songs for VH1: Rock Honors (Heart, Ozzy Osbourne and ZZ Top also played the show). In a pretty cool move,
Leftover Salmon and moe. will co-headline at Red Rocks Amphitheatre on Saturday, July 28th, and a Special Guest to be announced will open the show. Leftover Salmon returns to Colorado
The Mooney Suzuki set out on their US Summer tour this June in support of their upcoming release “Have Mercy.” After a string of tour dates opening for Albert Hammond,
Singer/songwriter Fiona Apple will join modern bluegrass virtuosos Nickel Creek‘s Farewell (For Now) Tour in August for what is being called "a highly collaborative series of shows." The dates begin
