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 Aaron Paul has been cast to play the lead in DreamWorks Studios action film “Need for Speed,” it was announced today by DreamWorks’ President of Production, Holly Bario. Scott Waugh (“Act of Valor”) is attached to direct, […]
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: 3 minutes Tucked away in a quiet corner of Chicago’s fabled Wrigleyville community resides a decidedly progressive albeit completely casual edifice to culinary indulgences, the Uncommon Ground on Clark Street. […]
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… […]
Reading Time: 4 minutes Talented early-2k songstress Bree Sharp makes a triumphant return along side long time musical cohort Don DiLego with their perfectly techno-satyric electropop on 2009’s EP; Robots In Love.
Reading Time: 2 minutes It’s been over a year in the making, but the Tampa-based band Merchandise’s latest album Children of Desire has grown into the logical and organic auditory extension of their previous Strange Songs LP that we’ve all been waiting […]
Reading Time: 3 minutes Alex Clare is a name that you probably aren’t familiar with, but odds are you’ve heard his song “Too Close” in Internet Explorer’s most recent commercial. When I heard the British singer’s soulful/folky voice mixed with booming bass wobbles, I was intrigued. After listening to his full album, I’m impressed. […]
Reading Time: 7 minutes This native son of Savannah, Georgia is quite possibly the single best blues musician you’ve never heard of…
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