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 [...]
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