Singer/ songwriters no longer live in the shadow of Cat Stevens and the acoustic founders of what's become a strange sort of genre. While a strong voice and story-telling lyrics are still common ground for today's versions, the backing music is far from...-
Singer/ songwriters no longer live in the shadow of Cat Stevens and the acoustic founders of what's become a strange sort of genre. While a strong voice and story-telling lyrics are still common ground for today's versions, the backing music is far from... -
You know you're out there when you go by an animal's name. Appropriately so, Noah Lennox (aka Panda Bear)'s album, Person Pitch, is a strange, distorted mix of folk and psych-rock that sounds like a haunted sampling of organic noises. ... -
The voice behind The Ghosts, and who often gets his name in front of the band's, is Matthew Sawyer. His vocals are so thickly British that they take you back to Davy Jones and The Monkees. ... -
The cynical pioneers of the indie dance-rock movement, LCD Soundsystem push a wild, yet essential, mix of guitar-driven alternative and club-ready discotronic tunes. Their third album, Sound of Silver, is a more mature installment, which means less-surprising as their past efforts, but they... -
For all of the emotion packed into the seven songs on his The Grey Rainbow EP, don't call Boy Omega emo. The emotion comes via the dense layering of orchestral arrangements, piano, guitars, and a farmboy-quality innocence in his voice. ... -
A little violent, a little tripped-out, and mostly apathetic. Somewhere between the introduction of the beaded doorway and sunglasses at night is Welcome's album, Sirs. There's most definitely a heavy '60s influence on their music, but they combine the stark Velvet Underground sound... -
Since the demise of Grant Lee Buffalo back in 1999 (following a dispute with label Warner Bros. over lack of promotion), Buffalo’s singer/guitarist/songwriter Grant-Lee Phillips has delivered five solo records, each better than the last. ... -
Alt-country is a tricky thing. At its best, it can be a whole new breed of Americana, uniting the original country/western sound with today’s indie rock (and skipping the homogenized ‘New Country’ on today’s charts). ... -
They say a house is usually a person’s biggest investment, but it’s about much more than dollars and cents: each house has a story of everyone who’s ever lived there, from why the place was built to why it was torn down. Radical...