Indie Music Culture
The new Albert Hammond, Jr. record was almost called Cockpit Voice Recordings if you can believe it. But the curly-headed guy with the guitar worried it wouldn’t be light enough; too “serious in the wrong way,” even. He worries about these things.
The UK’s Sarandon like to call themselves a pop band with a short attention span. The name of their latest album, Kill Twee Pop, (released in the U.S. on Slumberland Records), seems to say it all: this is no cutsie neo-folk act, but rather, a spastic, twitching garage punk act that delights both in mashing […]
The Kooks have come a long way from our first interview in the winter of 2005. I first met the then-unknown band at John Henry’s Rehearsal Studios in King’s Cross, a ramshackle section of London. Our interviews launched from there to a snazzy rooftop in Brooklyn and now to a hotel room in Kansas City. […]
Jason Pierce has this clever go-to riff when faced with the suggestion that his lyrics are overwhelmingly autobiographical. It’s certainly not a stretch to come to such assumptions over a canon so mired in self-destruction and dripping with narcotica.
“I say in every interview that when you listen to Ray Charles singing, ‘I Can’t Stop Loving […]
Bloody Social is a downtown NYC act that plays by their own rules, without feeling the need to cozy up to a coddling publicity rep or bow down to the first label throwing them a bone. They might just be one of the few real rock and roll bands based in this glitzier-by-the-minute city. For […]
Life is confusing, and the UK’s super-darlings known as Supergrass are the first to admit it. In fact, their latest album, Diamond Hoo Ha, applauds that fact. As drummer Danny Goffey describes the loose concept behind the release, “You’re never quite in control of what you’re doing. We’ve all got calamities and stuff but you’ve […]
All this talk about whether they are good or not really doesnt matter. People are always going to disagree with ...
I 100% agree with MichaelDon, rockslut, and crystalchix. Take it from someone who is high up on the A&R and ... I 100% agree with MichaelDon, rockslut, and crystalchix. Take it from someone who is high up on the A&R and ...
I think I read about these guys on brooklyn vegan or something. I went out to see them based ... I saw these guys at a few shows, don hills, delancey, and lit. Didnt feel it really. The lead singer ...
