Whether intentional or not, the title of Broncho’s first record, Can’t Get Past the Lips, plays like tongue-in-cheek premonition.
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The Athens, Georgia-by-way-of-Alabama outfit has gripped listeners’ souls with an international scope through its unflinching and sometimes willfully grim narratives of love, life and loss.
The Athens, Georgia-by-way-of-Alabama outfit has gripped listeners’ souls with an international scope through its unflinching and sometimes willfully grim narratives of love, life and loss.
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The band’s fourth studio album comes out Tuesday, and they will share the celebration with Oklahoma City at The Conservatory that same day.
The band’s fourth studio album comes out Tuesday, and they will share the celebration with Oklahoma City at The Conservatory that same day.
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Indie-rock outfit Bishop Allen returns after extended hiatus
After Bishop Allen gave us the catchy, understated Grrr… in 2009, the then-Brooklyn-based indie rockers fell silent.
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Grand Ambassadors
<span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family:” times=”” new=”” roman”;color:#222222″=””>Violin sighs give way to a harmonious chorus on “(O Death),” the funniest, shortest song on Ambassadors’ debut album, Litost. The ironically titled tune is so purposely not serious as to toss a lyrical red herring into the middle of a meditation on the afterlife: “O death, show me your teeth / For I’m trained in the art of dentistry!” […]
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Westerns’ union
It’s been a busy year for Smith Westerns. Luckily, with their respective ages barely reaching into the 20s, they group’s members had plenty of energy to meet all the opportunities that have presented themselves since the release of their critically acclaimed sophomore effort, “Dye It Blonde.” The Chicago-based, indie-rock band has made the most of […]
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Wilco – The Whole Love
The latter eschews much of that melody for a grittier rock and prog sound, and a wider thematic range, lyrically. Linking the two is the band’s universally beloved and critically lauded 2002 opus, “Yankee Hotel Foxtrot,” but, save for Jeff Tweedy’s most devout, wide-eyed followers, few find themselves with an equal appreciation for both albums. […]
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Hey! Dodo this
When The Dodos’ Meric Long sings for “a means to conjure you up,” he isn’t referring to the San Francisco indie-rock act’s long-extinct namesake. It’s possible “Good,” off this year’s “No Color,” is an open letter to the elusive sound he and bandmate Logan Kroeber have been looking for since their 2005 inception. “The closest […]
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We’re no angels
What’s a better way to draw attention to your band than nabbing George Michael to play bass? No, not the one from Wham!, but “Scott Pilgrim vs. the World” actor Michael Cera. Cera — who played a character named George Michael in TV’s “Arrested Development” — is actually a skilled bassist, and singer/guitarist Nick Thorburn […]
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Collections of Colonies of Bees — GIVING
How’s that, you figure? Well, COCOB’s taken instrumental post-rock where it needs to go by completely eliminating all the typical boring moments from their formula. “Giving” is a short album that’s constantly barreling forward and never stalled out by a single breakdown or pause, ethereal jam session, or instrumental solo. Even when the guitars, so […]