September 2010

Fleet Foxes Finish Recording New Album

Fleet Foxes have finished recording their new album, frontman Robin Pecknold has confirmed. Writing on the band’s Facebook page today (September 16), Pecknold said the Seattle band are now due

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J. Tillman Sings Tonight’s The Night

Earlier this week venerable music blog Aquarium Drunkard put up a simple post entitled J. Tillman Sings Tonight’s The Night, which contained the singer-songwriter and Fleet Foxes drummer covering Neil

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Briefly: The Return of Stew Art

Umhprey’s McGee’s innovative Stew Art Series, aka S2, returns after taking the summer off at Minglewood Hall in Memphis on Friday, September 24th. Over the course of the fall the

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Intermezzo: Happy Birthday, CoS

While we’re doling out praise to other sites, we wanted to wish a happy third birthday to our friends at Consequence of Sound. CoS has become a major player in

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Chatham County Line – Out of the Running

Chatham County Line – an authentic acoustic bluegrass foursome from Raleigh – seems to be finally building some real momentum here in the U.S. upon their latest release, a timeless

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Interpol: Interpol

With their new self-titled LP, Interpol fail to awake from their nap and instead have created an album that wraps the listener in a blanket, slips them a sleeping pill and puts them to bed for the night.  Loosely based on the concept of a disintegrating relationship, the band shuffles out one tired, mopey dirge after the next as they fail to give the listener any reason to care about the lyrics let alone turn up the volume dial and rock out.

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