7:45 pm, Nashville, Tennessee, waiting in line. After a lengthy wait, which causes us to miss the opener, we’re finally in our seats: stage left, just below the balcony, and directly in front of the speakers. This could get loud, folks. At least, I hope so. By 8:30 the room is packed. The crowd is [...]

Teenage Fanclub play a sound that could be dangerously outdated. Sounding like The Shins (and, therefore, The Beach Boys somewhat) meet The Smiths, they are still occupying a well-worn path. While other artists have moved on to a different sort of movement, Teenage Fanclub remains rooted — unwilling to falter. But with how distant the [...]

Versus have returned with a new record, On the Ones and Threes (to be released August 3), and a worldview darkened with the “sanitization” of both bands and music venues in their home city of New York.
On the Ones and Threes’ brooding themes are explained bluntly by Richard: “Well, I’m just a dark person, and [...]

Described by the band as “an almost live representation of the Lou Barlow + the missingmen live show,” the band’s new digital EP = Sentridoh III (Merge Records) is another step forward for Lou Barlow, and his first release with new backing band the missingmen (guitarist Tom Watson and drummer Raul Morales). With new cuts, rocking [...]

When I was asked to interview Camera Obscura, my utter excitement was immediately trumped by nervousness. I’ve always been under the impression that if the members of the band could do away with interviews, they would, which was somewhat confirmed during my interview with Carey Lander.
Camera Obscura have been in existence since 1996, and have [...]

The 2010 Sasquatch Music Festival is now in the bag, and now that the last notes of Ween’s epic closing set have floated back into the ether, I am here to fill you in. The weekend, which took place at The Gorge Ampitheatre in George, Washington, in was chock full of good, bad, and some [...]

Camera Obscura formed in Glasgow in 1996, releasing a slew of singles leading up to their debut CD Biggest Bluest Hi-Fi (2001, UK). The band slowly built up a loyal following in their native land, including the likes of legendary BBC DJ John Peel, who championed the band early on. Merge Records released Camera Obscura’s U.S. debut, Under [...]

The Love Language, initiated by Stuart McLamb, is a fortunate by-product of the North Carolina native’s rudderless mid-20s, where a tempest of breakup, inebriation, and incarceration found the abandoned songwriter embarking on a storage-space recording project to slow his seeming disintegration. The growing body of emotional fight songs, committed to MP3 with a high-school era [...]

Teenage Fanclub return on June 8, 2010 with a brand new album, Shadows, and a UK tour.
It has been five long years since their last album Man-Made was released to universal acclaim, so it is no overstatement to say the new album is keenly anticipated. While most bands are lucky to have one great songwriter, Teenage Fanclub [...]

Less than a year after their acclaimed dark triumph The Knot, Baltimore’s Wye Oak offer My Neighbor/My Creator, a vibrant EP that brims with melody and creative detours over five new recordings.
Collaborating with outside producers for the first time, Jenn Wasner and Andy Stack’s four new songs feel loose and direct, from the tumbling opener “My Neighbor” [...]

There are many reasons not to like a band. Either their sound isn’t to your liking, they represent an attitude that you find off-putting, or one look at a picture of them and you conclude they’re a bunch of douches. The worst reason not to like a band is because, simply put, they’re boring. Radar [...]

Is Spoon the New Power Generation for the Pitchfork crowd? That’s the question posited by Spoon’s seventh studio album, Transference. Just think about that funky Batman soundtrack if you don’t get the connection. It’s easily to see Prince’s “Future” slipping between the one-two punch of Transference’s, “Who Makes Your Money” and “Written In Reverse.” Rob [...]

On March 23, Radar Brothers will release The Illustrated Garden. Jim Putnam has found a new band of brothers in bass player Be Hussey and drummer Stevie Treichel, two partners who are equally passionate about the band.
The original line-up of Radar Brothers died on January 29, 2008. The band was on stage at the Echo [...]

After a year of touring behind their acclaimed second record, Our Ill Wills, the Shout Out Louds went their separate ways — singer/main songwriter Adam Olenius to Melbourne, Australia, keyboard/vocalist Bebban Stenborg to Los Angeles, drummer Eric Edman, bassist Ted Malmros and guitarist Carl von Arbin back to Stockholm – and took a much needed [...]

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