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Your favorite Walkman and Brooklyn Man, Hamilton Leithauser, put out new album This Side of the Island (QRO review) earlier this year, and now puts out the video for “What Do I Think?”, which sees Saturday Night Live‘s James Austin Johnson doing his best impression yet… Watch the video...
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Frontman for the indie-gone-big The National (QRO spotlight on), Matt Berninger is releasing his second solo album, Get Sunk, on May 30th. The follow-up to 2020’s Serpentine Prison (QRO review), Sunk has the great new fatherly song “Breaking Into Acting”, featuring Meg Duffy (a.k.a. Hand Habits), along with its...
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Because The New Pornographers know all about what we’ve lost to the past, they’ve just put out one of those most classic old things – a seven-inch vinyl – of “Ballad of the Last Payphone” and “Ego Death for Beginners”. Now comes the very modern lyric video for “Ballad”,...
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QRO’s been all into Dublin’s Somebody’s Child since their great self-titled debut (QRO review) back in 2023, catching them at SXSW (QRO photos) & NYC (QRO live review). Now they’re coming back with When Youth Fades Away, and it’s latest great single, “Porcelain (Losing All My Patience)” – including...
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Jane’s Addiction’s fresh singles, “Imminent Redemption” and “True Love” are exactly what one could only dream of coming from them, this is in no way to say they are perfect. Hoping for hope from such an energetic and emotional band is what one always does. Too often has Perry...
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Saturday Night Live just had its Christmas episode, which featured musical guest Hozier. The Irishman in New York celebrated the holiday and the recently passed Shane MacGowan by playing Pogues‘ famed “Fairytale of New York” – watch to catch the back-up singers up-front, guitarist switching mid-song to violin, flute...
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In maybe the most hardcore/metal moment on national TV since Gojira beheaded the Paris Olympics, Knocked Loose came to Jimmy Kimmel Live with Poppy to crush it with their Grammy-nominated “Suffocate”. Yes, there was a circle pit – and extra props to everyone for doing it in the rare...
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One QRO’s favorite new finds in the last few years has been Dublin’s Somebody’s Child, whose expansive emotionalism taps in no matter your age. On March 28th, they put out sophomore album When Youth Fades Away, their follow up to last year’s great self-titled debut, (QRO review), and just...
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The greatest thing out of Canada since bacon, Broken Social Scene were the leading edge of the ‘Canadian Invasion’ of indie-rock in the 2000s. Now they get their own much-deserved documentary, It’s All Gonna Break, from Stephen Chung about the chaotic collective’s chaotic, collectivist history, from meeting in the...
Your favorite Walkman and Brooklyn Man, Hamilton Leithauser, put out new album This Side of the Island (QRO review) earlier this year, and now puts out the video for “What Do I Think?”, which sees Saturday Night Live‘s James Austin Johnson doing his best impression yet… Watch the video...
Frontman for the indie-gone-big The National (QRO spotlight on), Matt Berninger is releasing his second solo album, Get Sunk, on May 30th. The follow-up to 2020’s Serpentine Prison (QRO review), Sunk has the great new fatherly song “Breaking Into Acting”, featuring Meg Duffy (a.k.a. Hand Habits), along with its...
Because The New Pornographers know all about what we’ve lost to the past, they’ve just put out one of those most classic old things – a seven-inch vinyl – of “Ballad of the Last Payphone” and “Ego Death for Beginners”. Now comes the very modern lyric video for “Ballad”,...
QRO’s been all into Dublin’s Somebody’s Child since their great self-titled debut (QRO review) back in 2023, catching them at SXSW (QRO photos) & NYC (QRO live review). Now they’re coming back with When Youth Fades Away, and it’s latest great single, “Porcelain (Losing All My Patience)” – including...
Jane’s Addiction’s fresh singles, “Imminent Redemption” and “True Love” are exactly what one could only dream of coming from them, this is in no way to say they are perfect. Hoping for hope from such an energetic and emotional band is what one always does. Too often has Perry...
Saturday Night Live just had its Christmas episode, which featured musical guest Hozier. The Irishman in New York celebrated the holiday and the recently passed Shane MacGowan by playing Pogues‘ famed “Fairytale of New York” – watch to catch the back-up singers up-front, guitarist switching mid-song to violin, flute...
In maybe the most hardcore/metal moment on national TV since Gojira beheaded the Paris Olympics, Knocked Loose came to Jimmy Kimmel Live with Poppy to crush it with their Grammy-nominated “Suffocate”. Yes, there was a circle pit – and extra props to everyone for doing it in the rare...
One QRO’s favorite new finds in the last few years has been Dublin’s Somebody’s Child, whose expansive emotionalism taps in no matter your age. On March 28th, they put out sophomore album When Youth Fades Away, their follow up to last year’s great self-titled debut, (QRO review), and just...
The greatest thing out of Canada since bacon, Broken Social Scene were the leading edge of the ‘Canadian Invasion’ of indie-rock in the 2000s. Now they get their own much-deserved documentary, It’s All Gonna Break, from Stephen Chung about the chaotic collective’s chaotic, collectivist history, from meeting in the...