Steve Martin on the banjo
What is this that I spy? Unbelievably, Steve Martin released a record this year on Rounder entitled The Crow: New Songs for the Five-String Banjo.…
Crayon Angel: A Tribute To The Music of Judee Sill
Artists like Trembling Blue Stars, Beth Orton, Final Fantasy, Ron Sexsmith, and Daniel Rossen (of Department of Eagles and Grizzly Bear), among others, contribute to…
Radiohead Deluxe Editions
Kid A (Deluxe Edition) Amnesiac (Deluxe Edition) Hail to the Thief (Deluxe Edition) In a career arc, Radiohead was quickly more art-rock than standard alt-rock…
Everything Touches Everything
These United States are appropriately named. They're not straight out Americana, but on Everything Touches Everything seem like John Fante driving with a really good…
WHY? and Themselves team up for exclusive MP3 just before dropping new LPs
WHY? is releasing their fourth album Eskimo Snow on September 20th -- with a batch of creatively-overloaded tracks, just as they "roll up" a joint…
Keep In Mind Frankenstein
Keep In Mind Frankenstein was recorded at a studio called Paradise Sound in a spiritually and economically crippled town called Index, WA. This berg was…
Party with USE on Sunday and get their new record early
I'm just getting ready to work on transcribing my interview with the lovely ladies (and, full disclosure, my friends) of USE when I got an…
Amused, Confused and More Bad News
Hailing from Seattle, The Purrs create a fascinating concoction of psychedelic pop. The band is an amalgam of their influences, which range from Echo and…
Wind's Poem
People familiar with Mount Eerie and its creative founder/leader Phil Elverum would hardly be surprised by anything he would try; though coming from Anacortes, the…
Sign up to have Bernard Sumner('s people) email you the new Bad Lieutenant single
[video:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=--pSWLEVGhY] Bad Lieutenant, the new band formed by frontman Bernard Sumner (Joy Division, New Order), guest drummer Stephen Morris (Joy Division, New Order), guitarist Phil…