Imbued with a moody and ominous depth that faux-industrialists such as White Lies and Editors would trade their entire black wardrobe for, No One Can Ever Know continues The Twilight Sad’s consistently outstanding form. Although the album is, according to vocalist and guitarist James Graham, “sparser” and “colder” than previous efforts it is certainly no [...]
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Album Review: “Queen of the Wave,” Pepe Deluxé
Let me tell you – this album is bizarre. REALLY bizarre. it’s a pop-opera based on a crazy novel about Atlantis from the late 1800s, with a style that mixes up hundreds of musical sub-genres in each song. Each individual element seems too far-fetched to enjoy, but when combined something wonderful and twisted is created. [...]
New Song: The Futureheads
OK. This is great. I love this on pretty much every level. I was kind of ambivalent to The Futureheads when they first passed through my life. I quite liked that Kate Bushthing they did, and I rather enjoyed going “Uh-oh-uh-oh-uh!” at indie disco singalongs. But other than that, I don’t think the album ever [...]
New Video: Blood Orange
Well, well, well. I am converted. Firstly, I must confess, I hated Test Icicles. They were the pinnacle of style (which was categorically shit) over substance (“stop pretending to like this pretentious crap to try and come across as painstakingly alternative”). I didn’t like Lightspeed Champion. I thought the lyrics were too try-hard and sound [...]
Hot Streaming: “Love Interruption,” Jack White’s Newest Single
Jack White, former frontman of the garage-rock duo The White Stripes and current member of The Raconteurs and The Dead Weather, has just unveiled the first single off his debut solo album Blunderbuss. The single, “Love Interruption,” is currently streaming at Third Man Records’ website, and will be released as a 7″ single February 7th. [...]
Happy (Belated) Birthday Jimmy Page
Show: Jimmy Page / The Firm Date: May 7th, 1985 Place: Worcester, Massachusetts Venue: Worcester Centrum Jimmy Page – Born Jan 9 1944 and still rocking! 5:00 P.M – Pick up Sister and her boyfriend for the show. 5:10 – Stopped at liquor store. 5:15 – Driving down the Mass Pike from Boston heading [...]
A deeper look at Blunderbuss: Jack White, completely solo
A year ago today (and, believe me, this is still terribly hard to type), monumental Detroit garage rock duo the White Stripes officially decided to break apart. The raw, bluesy two piece cut the chord on February 2, 2011, ending the more than 10 years of life their only child had so voraciously acquired. In all [...]
Tegan and Sara spread hopes for new album
The headline says it all, folks. Canadian indie/alternative twin-duo Tegan and Sara have officially come back from their year and a half off, and are expected to enter the studio in the middle of this month. Having not toured since a year before the release of their three-part short film series Get Along in November [...]