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With the release of Ice Cream Bones, an EP, in May of 2009, A Lull was a band that was confident, but was somewhat still searching for its sound. After countless more hours in practice spaces, basements and bedrooms, A Lull… (Read More)
Shoreline Dream, best described by many of their fans as “Melodipsych Rockers” is one of those rare groups willing to risk it all to get their music heard. The band jumped in without looking back from day one releasing the… (Read More)
Before you ask – the answer is “yes”. a. Tom Collins is the great-great-grandson of Tom Collins, creator of the eponymous gin cocktail. Other notable relations, near and distant, include British monarch Anne Boleyn, second-man-on-the-moon Buzz Aldrin, fictional detective Hercule Poirot… (Read More)
Three years into its existence, Abracastabya has unleashed Knees Together Ankles Crossed, an open wound of an album that smolders, swells, and suppurates dark anxiety and desire." The Onion AV Club, Localized: Denver "The act’s distinctively eclectic style nods to Helium… (Read More)
“Forget the ex-member status of Accordion Crimes and fixate instead on the fledgling trio’s go-for-broke, Archers-of-Loaf-like take on blistering, dynamic songcraft. Indie rock — both as a term and a movement — meant something once. With bands like Accordion Crimes around… (Read More)
The Achille Lauro, formerly the Willem Ruys, was a passenger liner. It is most remembered for its 1985 hijacking. Ordered in 1938, her keel was laid in 1939 at Vlissingen, Netherlands, for Rotterdamsche Lloyd. Interrupted by World War II and two… (Read More)
Started as a solo songwriting and recording project by Lucas but soon blossomed into a full band. We just try to write catchy country songs that someday people will sing along to. We’ve been lucky enough to share the stage with… (Read More)
Stand-up comic. Better than a lot of famous people. Writer. Worse than a lot of famous people. Drunk. About the same as a lot of famous people. Columnist for the Onion A.V. Club, member of Wrist Deep Productions. Ex-militia. Future nutritionist… (Read More)
To describe Air Dubai as one thing, one sound, or one genre would be missing out on the other 100 things this band is. Whether soft and sweet like a love song or hard hitting and brash as a thunderstorm, Air… (Read More)
Lubbock-born gem Amanda Pearl Shires steps into the spotlight with the release of her new album, West Cross Timbers. Her clever songs glitter with a tinge of the Western swing she honed so expertly as a side woman for Tommy Allsup… (Read More)
Andrea Ball is a caligraphy pen translating emotional experience into intricate pieces of music. Her first full-length release Beat Beat Pound demonstrates the craft of musical communication through organic chords and ambient sound. "You have to be emotionally connected, otherwise you… (Read More)
I want to feel life, everyday, like the first breath of oxygen, like the first time you climb a mountain, like you’ve just crawled into a portal in your wall, only to find an entire new world beyond it. (Read More)
Annie and The Beekeepers formed in Boston’s notoriously brutal December of 2006. The stillness and simplicity of New England’s slow-paced winter continue to resonate in the evolving sounds that Ken, Alex, and Annie create together, now in Brooklyn. The band’s instrumentation… (Read More)
The band’s live shows are eclectic, emotional, lively and never alike. Davis and Walker are joined on stage by their close friends; Benjamin Haysom is on drums and Justin Rodriguez steps in on guitar and organs. Switching between instruments several times… (Read More)
We try not to concern ourselves with this shit. We all write, we all pour our hearts into what we do. It is, and has always been, about the music and the people who came to dance…but for those who DO… (Read More)
Laylights frontman Tyler Hayden takes on a new identity as a world-weary, hip-swaying, techno-soul lothario. Hayden, Chris Eagleton and James Cromwell Holden simultaneously evoke Marilyn Manson, Prince and LCD Soundsystem with dark, dirty and danceable delights. Though all the tracks can… (Read More)
Astrophagus formed in a two bedroom apartment in the year 2003. Since then they have occupied various other spaces such as single family dwellings, duplexes, loft apartments, basements of armories, studio apartments, and double wide trailers. They also make songs… (Read More)
Jazz/folk singer-songwriter, Ayo Awosika has soaked in the musical history of Ella Fitzgerald, Billie Holiday, and Carmen McCrae; absorbed the songwriting knowledge of Joni Mitchell and Lizz Wright, while carving a niche for herself as a vocalist with prowess beyond her… (Read More)
