We Are Beautiful, We Are Doomed and we can hear the new Los Campesinos! record now
Finally a bright spot in the news: The NEW Los Campesinos! album, titled We Are Beautiful, We Are Doomed (Arts & Crafts), is going to be…
Transformer – New Marnie Stern video
There are about four bazillion reasons why I love this video to the single "Transformer" from Marnie Stern's forthcoming 31-worded title album This Is It…
More Cat Power covers forthcoming
Less than a year after releasing Jukebox, Cat Power's second album of mostly other people's songs, Chan Marshall and company decided that they still haven't gotten that…
Catching up on my Pica Beats consumption
My latest obsession is Seattle band The Pica Beats. Their album Beating Back the Claws of the Cold (Hardly Art) is so lovingly lo-fi with…
Tim & Eric's Awesome Flying Lotus Video
Tim & Eric's Awesome Show on Adult Swim is well, awesome. Eric Wareheim of the dynamic, and often androgynous, duo produced a music video for…
Waking The Sound
Gracing the cover of The Brokenmusicbox’s debut album is a photograph of three wooden figures that resemble a band of drunken street performers, with some…
Heart-wrenchingly amazing Swedish band alert
Swedish sister duo Johanna (17 years old) and Klara (15 years old) are crafting songs that transcend their age. Channeling Bob Dylan, Billie Holliday, Devendra…
Voyager
You know the songs that are so catchy they defy even the most hardened music snob's protective web? That's Walter Meego's modus operandi. On their…
The Republic Tigers
It seems that Alexandra Patsavas’ 24-carat gold finger and borderline monopolistic foresight have yet to wear out. Since signing to the music-supervisor-by-day’s own Chop Shop…
LP3
I appear have a niche market in the TIG universe. My reviews mostly have focused on the electronica genre of the indie world (see my…