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Archive for July, 2009
The Cave Singers spread the Joy on fall tour
The Cave Singers have unveiled plans to tour North America this fall in support of their upcoming second album, Welcome Joy, which is due for release on August 18th via Matador Records. Joined by their good friends, Lightning Dust, the Seattle rockers will work their way around Canada and the U.S. throughout the months of [...]
Album Review: Major Lazer – Guns Don’t Kill People… Lazers Do
Throughout the years, Jamaican dancehall artists have become more keen on electric assistance and have strayed from traditional strings and percussion, instruments that have previously fused reggae with dancehall — Major Lazer is doing its best with keeping up with the trend.
Mud, rain and hippies! The scene that was Camp Bisco 8!
This past weekend, the Disco Biscuits held their annual summer extravaganza, Camp Bisco, at the Indian Lookout Country Club in Mariaville, New York. We’ll let our own Carlos Detres give you the scoop, but let’s just say that by weekend’s end, this year’s festivities proved to be one hell of an event.
The Entrance Band set to release self-titled debut LP
With tour mates the likes of Sonic Youth and a release on Thurston Moore’s Ecstatic Peace! Records, The Entrance Band has a wall of hype to surmount with the September 1st release of its self-titled debut effort. With a press release that promises “an incendiary, 10-song journey into the creative group-mind of three talented and [...]
LCD Soundsystem still alive and well, plans remix album
Sound of Silver just happens to be one of the great albums of the decade, and as such, we clamor for any morsel of news that LCD Soundsystem is working on something new. Relax; be patient, that next studio album is still a ways off. In the meantime, however, we can look forward to some [...]
Some bands you’ve probably heard of hit the road to pay tribute to some other bands you’ve probably heard of
Ghostland Observatory, The Polyphonic Spree and The Hold Steady… with some SoCo mixed in!
Mercury Prize 2009 nominations announced…
The Mercury Prize is an annual award for the “best British album,” and unlike the Teen Choice Awards where surfboards are given as trophies, winning it is actually a pretty big deal. So is the fact that £20,000 is given to the winner. Today, nominations for the 2009 Mercury Prize were announced and among the [...]
Apse Climp Up for new album
In the three years that have followed the release of 2006′s Spirit, the Connecticut rock outfit known as Apse has seen two of its members, Ezer Lichtenstein and Austin Stawiarz, depart, three new members, drummer Brandon Collins, guitarist Jed Armour and bassist John Mordecai, join, and multi-instrumentalist Aaron Piccirillo quit and re-join, all while frontman [...]
Warp Records celebrates #20 with box set, music festival
Following in the footsteps of another high-profile, indie-friendly music label, Warp Records will look to celebrates its 20th anniversary with one hell of a bang. You’ve probably already heard about the first item of business — Warp20. It’s a box set which will feature both old, aka a double CD “best of” compilation, as well [...]
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