As I was too young to have witnessed Devo perform during their late-’70s/early-’80s heyday, I spent more than a bit of time looking up vintage live footage of them on YouTube. Back then they were over the top with energy — subversive, snarky, low-budget, maybe even a little innocent. What could one expect in 2010?
I [...]

Rooms are pretty difficult to get excited about. They’re yet another entry in a disconcertingly long list of post-punk upstarts who (probably after seeing the astonishing amount of fame, acclaim, and cash Interpol has racked in over the years) have angled their guitars, cleaned up their vocals, and smoothed out their production in an attempt [...]

The Dont’s third record, Those Delicate Chemicals, encompasses the band’s blend of ’80s/’90s post-punked heyday with nods to the Fall, Replacements and Talking Heads — but ultimately dowses itself in a distinctly original 21st-century haze of interstellar bass, brittle guitars, thundering drums, and arcs of lyrical madness. Those Delicate Chemicals is refined one moment and reckless the next, astutely sequenced from [...]

British post-punk legends Echo & The Bunnymen are launching their first US tour in support of their acclaimed new album, The Fountain. The shows are hot on the heels of the band’s recent tour celebrating their landmark album Ocean Rain that included orchestral performances at New York’s Radio City Music Hall and the Nokia Theatre [...]

After a 10-year career, Brooklyn indie/punk rockers Nakatomi Plaza are hanging up the towel. In conjunction with their demise they’ve released one last album, ironically titled Ghosts. The album serves as a sort of Viking burial for the band, casting off 11 tracks of pop-punk and post-hardcore to burn into the ocean.

Elizabeth Fraser. The name alone conjures up flashbacks of the neon-spewing Eighties synth and New Wave. The Cocteau Twins breakup broke hearts in 1997, but allowed members to pursue other realms of sound and possibilities. However, the fans still pleaded for more and now, a new dose of Fraser has reached listeners’ ears, though not [...]

Hailing from gauzier side of San Francisco’s very distinctive music scene, Metropolis recording artists Veil Veil Vanish are set to release their debut album Change in the Neon Light on February 23, 2010.
“This album represents a year’s worth of constant work and the fleshing out of our sound,” explains vocalist/guitarist/keyboardist Keven Tecon. “We’ve created something [...]

There’s no shortage of misunderstood places in America, and with that there’s always a chance that some sort of musical act will rise from the obscurity. Unfortunately, North Florida bare-rockers Tubers are a group that listeners will more than likely be sending back to the mosquitoes.
Tubers take a sound that is outright simple, yet still [...]

Listening to The Chambermaids’ album Down In the Berries is a strange experience for anyone who was a kid when the Athens sound had yet to change the face of alternative music, back in the day when MTV’s 120 Minutes was the show you stayed up late to watch Sunday night, not caring how tired [...]