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You! Me! Dancing! Los Campesinos
Published Feb. 8, 2012
The first time I heard the Los Campesinos song “By Your Hand,” I was shocked. I mean, this is a band with a reputation for being twee (all the members go by first names only, and ...
Dave Good Doubts the Features
Published Feb. 8, 2012
The Features are indie rockers from Sparta, Tennessee, an eighth-grade startup born of small-town boredom. Coming of age in a cultural backwater of less than 5000 had its limitations, and a lot of the Features’ songwriting ...
Eleanor Friedberger, Out of the Fiery Furnaces
Published Feb. 1, 2012
Brother-sister act Fiery Furnaces has spent the past ten years earning a reputation as one of the most prolific and confounding acts in indie rock. Their songs, written mostly by Matthew Friedberger, pair classic-rock instrumentation with ...
Joe Walsh, Analog Man
Published Feb. 1, 2012
If you played electric guitar in high school during the 1970s, you probably had your Steppenwolf and Bad Company and Deep Purple and Neil Young ... More Post a comment
Nada Surf. Not Weezer.
Published Jan. 25, 2012
“Popular” has been called an accidental alt-rock radio hit by almost every music writer who has tackled the subject of Nada Surf. It was on ... More Post a comment
Fujiya & Miyagi: Krautrock and Aphex Twin
Published Jan. 25, 2012
Fujiya & Miyagi’s David Best doesn’t really sing, he hisses in rhythm. In LCD Soundsystem, James Murphy would alternate talking with singing. Even talk-singers such ... More Post a comment
Elephant Revival at AMSD
Published Jan. 18, 2012
Daniel Rodriguez tells this story about the origin of his band’s name, Elephant Revival: “Our bass player busked outside the elephant cage at the Lincoln ... More Post a comment
Dashboard Confessional Unplugged: Chris Carrabba
Published Jan. 18, 2012
The New York Times’ Jon Caramanica recently wrote that mainstream rock has become zombified, that even country music has shown more experimentation than rock in ... More Post a comment
Colonel J.D. Wilkes and His Dirt Daubers
Published Jan. 11, 2012
The Dirt Daubers came to be because the organizers of the Raindance film festival in London couldn’t afford airfare for the Legendary Shack Shakers. Colonel ... More Post a comment
The Bloody Hollies, Yours Until the Bitter End
Published Jan. 11, 2012
The garage rock bands of the ’60s weren’t meant to last. Typically, they played a bunch of shows, cut a single or two, and then ... More Post a comment
Buddy Blue Reunion
Published Jan. 4, 2012
Who’s in the Buddy Blue Reunion Band? All of the original players, says Joe Dyke, aka Sweetlips Mysterioso — with the exception of Blue himself, ... More Post a comment
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