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Archive for January, 2009
Listen: Doomtree
Indie rap is gaining some serious momentum lately, so it’s no wonder that Doomtree intends to make its own mark on the scene. It shouldn’t be too hard, either. This nine piece hip-hop regime consists of more than just clever nicknames and lustrous sound textures. They hail from Minnesota, the home of fellow vocabulary weaving [...]
Doves create a Kingdom of Dust
The first thing you should know about the Doves‘ upcoming new studio effort, Kingdom of Dust, is that it was recently named one of NME’s top 10 most important albums of 2009. When you got that kind of backing on your side, at leas you know you’ll get the Pete Doherty crowd checking out you [...]
Great Lake Swimmers tour in spring, goodies galore…
While it shouldn’t come off as much of a surprise if you caught last month’s news about Toronto’s Great Lake Swimmers and their brand new studio album Lost Channels, set for release on March 31, the band has finally confirmed their upcoming spring tour. The U.S. trek, which kick off on the west side in [...]
Album Review: Mark Olson & Gary Louris – Ready for the Flood
After enjoying an international release, stateside audiences have finally been granted (legal) access to Ready for the Flood, the new album by Mark Olson and Gary Louris. Why this album had to take so long to land at home in the good ol’ U.S. of A. is beyond me. Whether or not the album is [...]
Metric readies its Fantasies
It’s been nearly four years, yes four!, since Metric‘s Live It Out first graced the airwaves. Since then, Emily Haines and Co. have been busy playing sold out shows, while their material serves as the musical accompaniment behind McSteamy and dead bodies. For most, life couldn’t get much better than that, but for Metric, the [...]
CoS Ultimate Raffle: Four days left!
Coachella’s lineup, or lack there of, got you down? What better way to take your mind of things than by purchasing a ticket, or two, or three, or ten for our Ultimate Raffle. With prizes like three-day passes to Langerado, signed memorabilia from your favorite bands, and Bob Dylan box sets, you’ll have plenty of [...]
Album Review: The Bird and the Bee – Ray Guns Are Not Just the Future
Some people (even people who write for this site) believe music has room for guilty pleasures, music that you know isn’t good but you still like anyway. Guilty pleasures do not share the same stratosphere as “Legitimate Music”. You have to jump to defend the guilty ones when someone looks at your iPod and raises [...]
The Datsuns ready a fourth…
Flight of the Conchords isn’t the only New Zealand band on the block. No, you’re forgetting about Cambridge’s own, The Datsuns. While they made a big splash years ago with their 2002 self-titled debut, they’ve been churning out critically acclaimed work since then, though mostly to folks in the UK and Australia. Fortunately for those [...]
Langerado offers additions, day-by-day lineup
On the same day we find ourselves aimlessly awaiting Coachella’s lineup announcement, it’s a bit ironic that Langerado, another festival that made us wait quite a while for its 2009 bill, is out with its first round of additions and day-by-day schedule. Unfortunately, for those hoping for Rage Against the Machine, the Dave Matthews Band, [...]
The Minneapolis Henrys capsize The Bottom Lounge (1/23)
Jai Henry is a slight young man. A lanky, bespectacled creator of hum-along tunes that wouldn’t have been out of place on the Garden State soundtrack had Zach Braff done more extensive digging for incendiary talent. He is the co-creator of infectious little ditties that could eventually wind-up giving James Mercer (The Shins) a run [...]
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