Modern American Photo Album
When life hands you lemons, you make lemonade. When life hands you a lot of lemons, you pucker up and open a lemonade stand. But…
One show not to be missed this weekend: Fish the Cat Records' Toys for Tots Benefit at the Mars Bar
There are lots of great shows this weekend: the Cops all-ages CD release, the Thermals, I could go on. But one show I highly endorse…
Great Holiday Gifts from Merge Records
It's a wonderful annual tradition: The kind folks at Merge Records put together a fine trunk of goods perfect for the holiday giving and they…
Free Electricity
I’ve now listened to The Cops’ second album, Free Electricity, about 7 or 8 times straight through over the past 4 days and I am…
In high rotation: stella by starlight {now Star Lake Drownings}
Speaking of how it is going to be a great day... this morning I pulled stella by starlight's self-released EP from it's DIY photocopied sleeve,…
Andorra
Caribou (the band previously known as Manitoba) picks up where the last two outings by Dan Snaith have left off: electro-pop soundscapes that are some…
Your very own Keith John Adams song (about YOU)!
Our friends at Happy Happy Birthday To Me Records just emailed us about a neat preorder promotion for the new Keith John Adams album --…
Magnetic Fields reveal song names for new record. Make up your own lyrics here!
In case you've been living under an imaginary rock and haven't heard, TIG fave the Magnetic Fields have a new record called Distortion, slated for…
"Natural Anthem" by The Postal Service
Yum. The Postal Service for breakfast. I'm digging it. I think I probably melted my copy of Give Up by playing it too many times,…
Joe Metro EP
For those of you who might have missed it, the Blue Scholars released one heck of an album in 2007. Bayani, the duo’s sophomore release,…