While John Dwyer has pretty much perfected his blend of garage/punk/psych rock with his band Thee Oh Sees’, he embraces his synth side with his side project, Damaged Bug. Following last year’s debut, Hubba Bubba, he’s slated to release Cold Hot Plumbs on June 1st via his Castle Face label. Continue reading
The 2015 Outside Lands Festival headline has been announced, via a video on FunnyOrDie.com. The eighth annual festival in Golden Gate Park will feature headliners Elton John, Mumfor and Sons, The Black Keys. Continue reading
Big day for new songs from upcoming albums, and now Death Cab For Cutie are streaming their entire new record, Kintsugi. Continue reading
The re-activated Blur played a small, secret London show last Friday, where 300 fans got to here the new record, The Magic Whip, in its entirety. Continue reading
Built to Spill have released a new track from their upcoming eighth studio record, Untethered Moon. The track, “Never Be The Same,” is available for streaming and as an instant download –along with the previously released track “Living Zoo” – for pre-orders of Untethered Moon from Built to Spill’s Official Store, iTunes, and Amazon. So if you’re hankering for new BTS, pre-order now. The albums comes out on vinyl on Record Store Day, April 18th, and a very limited-edition number of LPs will be pressed on transparent blue vinyl and randomly distributed into the initial run of pressings. The CD and digital versions will be released on April 21st. Continue reading
Tweedy, the family band of Wilco’s Jeff Tweedy and Wilco’s Jeff Tweedy’s son Spencer Tweedy, played two sold-out nights at the Fillmore on. After a St. Patrick’s Day opening night with The Fiery Furnaces’ Eleanor Friedberger opening, Wilco buddies The Minus 5 opened night two on March 18th. Continue reading
Good news for people who like Modest Mouse news: Modest Mouse finally released their long-gestating, briefly-delayed sixth record Strangers To Ourselves yesterday, and marked the occasion with an appearance on The Tonight Show With Jimmy Fallon. Continue reading
Portland bandmates Hutch Harris and Kathy Foster released their first record as the Thermals in 2003, but a year prior the duo released a self-titled record as Hutch and Kathy.
“You remember all of us… from the Nineties!” is how Juliana Hatfield introduced the band to the crowd at the Chapel on Sunday, March 15. And, yes, the crowd certainly remembered. Continue reading
Frequent tour-mates and fellow Nashvillains Those Darlins and Diarrhea Planet are releasing a split LP for Record Store Day, on April 18th, via Easy Sound. Pickathon: Diarrhea Planet & Those Darlins was recorded at the Pickathon festival in Portland, OR last summer, and is the first of a planned series of live recordings to be released from the 15-year catalog of the event.
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