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Bored New World: How the Zach Braff Prototype Is Slowly Killing American Music"...The music sounds like it has nothing to prove because the kids making it have nothing to prove. It enacts leisure because its authors come from a background of leisure.
Dark Was The Night Compilation to Raise Money for AIDS Awareness and EducationOn the occasion of World AIDS Day today (1st December), we are very pleased to announce the official release date, complete list of participating artists and cover art for the upcoming 4AD release, Dark Was The Night.
Live and Local: Video Interview with Flotation WallsFlotation Walls invited TOP Live and Local to their rehearsal space at Junctionview Art Studios for a late-night acoustic performance of two tunes from their upcoming album.
Musically speaking, conversation regarding Washington State is usually reduced to a certain pair of grunge bands that made somewhat of a splash in the early 90s (Newsvine notwithstanding).
The Shins to self-release next albumDespite breaking Sub Pop records by debuting at the #2 slot last year with Wincing the Night Away, The Shins are feeling the new media nervousnes, and will be releasing their next album on Aural Apothecary, the label of their own James Mercer.
I'm going pretty deep into indie territory here to bring you a young, talented, artist from Tacoma with an extremely bright future. Her name is Taylour Woodruff and her latest project is called Number the Stars.
SXSW Wraps Up Its 2,000-Course FeastAdam Elliott, the drummer and singer of Times New Viking, summed up the South by Southwest Music festival between the frenetic songs by his band, a three-piece from Columbus, Ohio.
Dylan Fant is a busy man these days. He's a founding member of the Seattle pop rock band JMinus as well as the owner and recording engineer for One Shot Studio here in Seattle.
Actors moving on to the music business is in no way a new idea, however it's an incredibly hazardous one. For every intriguing project involving Scarlett Johansson singing Tom Waits songs there lies a Bruce Willis band, or a Shaquille O'Neal hip-hop record.
Jeff Mangum, the Salinger of indie rockTen years ago this month, a songwriter from nowhere and his ramshackle band brought out one of the few truly great albums of this generation, a musical curio so gloriously odd that it almost defies explanation.
Not nearly as sexual as their name implies The Bird and The Bee are an Indie duo from Los Angeles. The Bird is Inara George; dubbed the bird because she is the lead vocalist, while the Bee is musician Greg Kurstin.
Malcolm Middleton isn't really a band but a guy. His name just happens to sound like a TV show - he didn't even change it for publicity sake. Malcolm is a guitarist and has a history of playing in various punk bands throughout the 1990s.
I was just listening to a track over at thesixtyone.com from a band I have never heard of, Dead Confederate, and, quite frankly, it rocked. The track was "The Rat" - I didn't really pay attention to the lyrics but the sound was really good.
A Paler Shade of White: Musical EventsBy the time I saw the Clash, in 1981, it was finished with punk music.
Canadian indie-rock quartet The Weakerthans are not, like many bands today, an every other year (or every year in some cases) record factory. They take their time crafting their songs, letting life inspire them before putting pen to paper or fingers to strings.
Why Portland Is America's Indie Rock MeccaI never paid much attention to the band-rehearsal squawk that used to waft through the open windows of my house in the early evenings.
When arriving on time to shows these days, minutes after the doors open, it's not uncommon to be greeted by a sparsely populated club with only small knots of people standing here or there.
One of the big stories of the summer in live indie music was Sonic Youth's performance at the McCarren Park Pool in which they played their seminal album Daydream Nation in full, front to back.
Caribou InterviewTuneTribe's Dan Carney asks Dan Snaith aka Caribou about his excellent new album 'Andorra' and his desire to play a gig at the bottom of the ocean...
Chevrolet is not the new commercial radioShilling for soul-crushing, art-ignorant, world-befouling multinationals is totally antithetical to underground music's DIY code. Or at least that's what Fugazi, Dead Kennedys and even major-label grunge grandpa Neil Young have told us throughout their brilliant careers.
I've never been one to frequent Central Park and so at first it was a bit of a trial to make my way to the performance area where New York electronic rockers Brazilian Girls were set to perform as part of this year's Summerstage concert series.
Cat Power 'Covers' Her TracksThe LP will include tracks chosen from a studio set of 24 covers and will be titled Covers Record 2, following her 2000 release, The Covers Record, which featured Marshall's take on tracks by Dylan, the Rolling Stones, Pavement and others.
On the last date of a nation-wide tour Brooklyn based My Teenage Stride pulled no punches as they nearly blasted off the stage of the Lower East Side's Cakeshop with its three supporting bands in tow.
Metric Hit The RoadAfter spending much of the summer laying the ground work for a new LP in Toronto's Giant Studios, Metric are prepared to hit the road with a number of dates confirmed for a fall stateside tour.
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