Reading Time: < 1 minute British rock band Muse is real Lamborghini fans. After featuring a Countach in their 2018 video for “Something Human,” the band visited Lamborghini’s headquarters and took the brand’s supercars to the track in 2019. They […]
Reading Time: 3 minutes On the cover of Dum Dum Girls’ third album, singer-guitarist Dee Dee Penny stalks the bluelit night looking like a vampire Pat Benatar. That’s the music’s vibe, too: sleek, tough, pouty indie pop streaked with […]
Reading Time: 2 minutes It’s hard to define a sound or song that’s wholly evocative of Florida, the real Florida at least…not the tourist frequented beaches or family friendly resorts but the real grassroots parts of Florida that keep […]
Reading Time: 6 minutes So, as it turns out, John Mayer wasn’t just having a bit of fun with last year’s Born & Raised, the singer-songwriter’s sixth studio album, was in some ways a natural progression following his increasing love affair with […]
Reading Time: 3 minutes We’ve Been Impressed with Bad Books for Some Time But With New Single Forest Whitaker Gaining Radio Airplay The Secret Is Out Born from the friendship of Kevin Devine and Manchester Orchestra’s Andy Hull, Bad […]
Reading Time: 3 minutes This Week We Review Zooey Deschanel and M. Ward’s Just Released Today, She & Him: Volume 3. Does It Measure Up? Yes. All I know is that I’m tired of being clever/Everybody’s clever these days,” sings […]
Reading Time: 3 minutes One of Scotland’s Greatest Rock Bands, Frightened Rabbit Is A Group You Really Should Be Listening To While Frightened Rabbit’s 2008 sophomore album “The Midnight Organ Fight” may no longer be a new release, it […]
Reading Time: 2 minutes Off their 2011 album A Very She & Him Christmas, the indie-rock duo, consisting of Zooey Deschanel and M. Ward, Baby, It’s Cold Outside puts a fun spin on the holiday classic. The animated music video shows a couple trapped inside during a snowstorm, but the reason behind their lack of access to the outside world gets a fun twist with its explanation at the end. […]
Reading Time: 4 minutes With a mere 12 days until Christmas it only seems appropriate that we once again showcase the always beautiful Zooey Deschanel’s holiday collaboration with the very talented M. Ward on what has quickly become our favorite holiday album, A Very She and Him Christmas. […]
Reading Time: 2 minutes By now, comparisons between this Denver Americana trio and UK folk-rockers Mumford & Sons are well documented. Both groups belong to the roots revivalist movement flooding the indie consciousness, but there’s something perhaps more essentially “American” about the Lumineers, difference which while appreciative of one and other clearly sets the two apart. […]
Reading Time: 3 minutes How can it be…? Did American Idol actually manage to produce good music? Sure, the insipid reality television series has managed to find a few legitimate stars (Kelly Clarkson and Carrie Underwood for example) along the way but historically the music they’ve given their big winners to perform each season as their first single, or as they like to call it “Coronation Song” have been well…crap. Que 2011’s winner Phillip Phillips, who seems to have had the luck of the Irish and found a hit right out of the gate. […]
Reading Time: < 1 minute Beautiful Small Machines recently released a cover of MIA‘s smash hit “Paper Planes”, turning it from a pop/hip-hop mashup into an incredibly well done indie song… […]
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