Archive: 2011

Our quick, random stabbing of 10 new albums

Neon Indian will head back out on the road for a full North American tour this Spring, and is offering fans a way to save money when they buy advance tickets directly through the band’s website, and has also created an exclusive T-shirt only available as a bundle with pre-sale tickets.  Every ticket has lower […]

Andrew Bird has a new album called Break It Yourself and is set for release March 6th. To celebrate the release, Andrew announced a lengthy US tour this morning. Every ticket comes with music. A pair of live EPs — one from his recent October run, and another from this tour which will be delivered in […]

The Kuhn Brothers re-interpret their own Impressions of New York.

A new HT contributor offers his take on a recent ABB performance.

Check out the animated music video for Kate Bush’s Mistraldespair.

Watch The Black Keys two Saturday Night Live performances.

Ryan Adams, Neil Diamond, Alison Krauss and The Black Keys are among the musical acts on TV this week.

Handguns, the 4th studio album from Greensky Bluegrass, is one of the most stirring acoustic releases of the year.  The five-man Michigan band has taken strands of bluegrass, country, folk, and engineered a lyrically blunt, musically sophisticated strain of acoustic art.  The songs have an honesty that harkens back to the glory days of confessional country music as perfected by Willie Nelson, Loretta Lynn, and the like. 

With 2010’s epic Brothers, Dan Auerbach and Patrick Carney were propelled to superstar status and with good reason as the band found inspiration in broken marriages and Muscle Shoals Studio.  The expanded musical instrumentation and focus on crafting heartfelt songs paid huge dividends for the band, producing a new album a year later is unexpected and when first announced smelled of leftover tracks.