There are some excellent things on the horizon, particularly if you’re into the loosely defined indie folk / alt-country / cowpunk genre that we can’t seem to name. My old favourites Cuff The Duke return this October with “Sidelines of the City,” following up 2005’s eponymous Cuff The Duke. The song “Surging Revival” is up […]
Ottawa’s The Acorn has posted two songs from their upcoming Paper Bag release Glory Hope Mountain and it’s sounding absolutely gorgeous. I dug the band’s prior EP Tin Fist but I never really latched onto a distinct voice in their competent indie-folk tunes. This, however, sounds like a band with ten more years under their […]
Adam: Adam’s been listening to Bikini Kill all morning. He’s so in touch with the kids these days.
Brian: clearly
Adam: I’m the voice of a generation right here.
Brian: maybe we can set up a new feature
Brian: Adam and the Kids
Brian: every post of it is you saying “Fuck ‘em.”
Adam: Maybe “What’s cool with the Kids by […]
The Arcade Fire’s weird and wonderful promotional site for their upcoming Neon Bible has posted a video of the band performing a cover of the Clash’s “Guns of Brixton.” Head to neonbible.com/yope.html and click “6. Guns” to check it out. The grainy monochrome video and the perspective of the camera really add to it.
Now apparently […]
The Invisible Eyes are the last band Greg Shaw signed to Bomp, and while it’s hard not to be sentimental about such things Laugh In The Dark really is a great record and completely characteristic of the music Shaw built his life around. In that year end hyper-analytical rush all music geeks with the privilege […]
I made some comment when reviewing Statues‘ last record that for all the Ted Leo and Jam comparisons they’d earned, they still sounded like an act too young in their career to jump to such conclusions. Despite it’s 2005 Pelado release date Aux was a recording from earlier in 2004, so I’ve been eager to […]
This is too fun. I reviewed a Coffin Lids record a while back but they fell off my radar soon thereafter. They’re a three piece from Boston, heavy on the distortion in a Zombies / Sonics way. Round Midnight just came out, and with this song it’s on the list now.
Coffin Lids - I’m Going […]
How good is Porcella? The Deadly Snakes completely reinvented themselves here, and while there’s less outright garage freakouts the amount of layered, atmospheric compositions makes up for it. You’d suspect they were listing to Rain Dogs quite a bit when recording it. The fact that the band sequestered themselves in an cabin somewhere in northern […]
I think one of the pleasures of having this site as an outlet is that it allows me to highlight a selection of music that’s closer to my everyday listening habits than the daily content of Punknews represents. Not that anyone reads this, making the whole exercise rather pointless, but it’s good for my overall […]
Everything I’ve ever heard from the FemBots has been wonderfully smart and classy. They take the whole post-Neil Young Canadian indie-folk thing and modernize it without loosing that rustic appeal. Anyone who saw the band’s principles touring as part of the expanded-Weakerthans this past year hopefully arrived early to catch their own set, because it […]
