Someone to Drive You Home
It is very hard to not like the Long Blondes. For one, they have a lead singer that is very easy to look at (Kate…
Book of Bad Breaks
Thee More Shallows' last album, More Deep Cuts, was easily one of my top five records of 2005. On the San Francisco trio's new effort,…
Dumb Luck
There might not be a more apt title to Dntel’s second album than Dumb Luck. How else might you explain the sort of runaway success…
The Story
In the past few years, Brandi Carlile has become an interesting phenomenon in the Northwest. The 25 year-old singer from Ravensdale, Washington sells out her…
Original Soundtrack to The Fountain
If you’re really looking for independent music stars, you need look no further than the Kronos Quartet. They are the alternative rock stars of the…
Snowdrift
Seattle-based Snowdrift at their best sound like a female-fronted, Kid A-era Radiohead, and at their worst, eerily like a band I used to be in. A…
Night of the Furies
The easiest thing to say about the new Rosebuds album is that it sounds like (insert your favorite 80’s new wave band here). On first…
Foley Room
It has been over a decade now since Brazilian DJ Amon Tobin started making some of the darkest, most seductive, and most invigorating electronic music…
From Telegraph Hill
One of my favorite Boston releases of the year so far, The Vinyl Skyway's From Telegraph Hill blends alt-country and retro-riffic indie pop in such…
The Pretender
We All Have Hooks for Hands, hereafter referred to as Hooks for Hands for brevity’s sake, are probably the biggest thing to explode out of…