Eddie Argos, lead singer of Brit indie rock band Art Brut, has a side project along with The Bloody Arm’s Dyan Valdes called Everybody Was In The French Resistance… Now and he was gracious enough to tell me a little bit about their forthcoming album. Now, this phone interview is painful for me to post [...]

Seeing a show at Pianos‘ upstairs room is like watching a band in your neighbor’s rec room — except more dimly lit, you know, due to the lack of track lighting. That being said, The Vanguard was able to surmount inherent sound/ambiance issues at their Tuesday night show and delivered a most entertaining 40 minute [...]

Queens-based Freelance Whales opened for Fanfarlo this past Friday night at Webster Hall. The pairing of the two bands proved to be a nice fit as they both share a predilection for a varied assortment of acoustic/amped string instruments and too many musicians on stage.
All joking aside, Freelance Whales delivered a beautiful set chock full [...]

I caught The Fancy on the fly this past Tuesday when they opened for The Vanguard and I was pleasantly surprised by their Belle and Sebastian-esque sound along with their peppy and pert stage presence. So… the story goes Clara Latham (guitar/vocals) met Seth Garrison (keyboards/vocals) at Oberlin College and they forged a friendship then [...]

And that is what you get for playing it safe.  The greats are almost always appreciated posthumously. Delayed gratification…. that’s the way to go. But congrats Karen; I think you have it in the bag (your competition ain’t that stiff; its not like you’re up against Danny Elfman or that one name wonder, Vangelis). Check [...]

Holy b’Jesus (or Hashem… whomever you subscribe to), this Tuesday is the Mecca of record releases (and you Eid celebrators thought I forgot about you). Look at this line up:

Animal Collective
Fall Be Kind (EP)

Alicia Keys
The Element of Freedom

Shiny Toy Guns
Girls Le Disko (remixes)

Kylie Minogue
Kylie: Live in New [...]

San Francisco here we come! The dates for Noise Pop’s 2010 festival have been announced: February 23-March 1st. Noise Pop is a long running San Francisco music and film festival that exposes burgeoning indie acts to the masses and is at least partially responsible for launching the careers of The White Stripes, Modest Mouse, The [...]

‘Tis the season… for giving (read charity). Today is International Human Rights Day… so do your part; in addition to pitching your loose change into that Salvation Army red bucket and making your $20 annual contribution to Greenpeace you can download this little ditty from Portishead benefiting the fine folks at Amnesty International. The download [...]

Beach House is touring Europe for the foreseeable future (March?) and I miss them. Victoria (Legrand), remember that time at The Met when I ran into you at the Frances Bacon exhibit and I got all weird and mumbley and star struck… of course you don’t, but that’s not the point — I do and [...]

So Beck.com has specially commissioned Olaf Breuning t-shirts available for $20 and they’re very nice (oh yes). For all those über-discriminating hipsters in your life, this is sure to be an obscure enough reference. Enjoy Mr. Hansen and his Record Club’s rendition of The Velvet Underground’s “Sundy Morning” which I am very afraid that I [...]

That is the question of the day… no week, at least. Oh when oh when will you deliver that album of yours or (por lo menos) a tasty morsel to whet our appetite for more of your infinitely danceable sound? Soon is not an answer, k? The track “100 doLLa biLL” is hardly new but [...]

Crushing so hard on Alexandra Hope right now. I find her to be a pleasant mix of fellow H surnamed chanteuses PJ Harvey and Francoise Hardy. Zexy. Her cover of Madonna’s “Lucky Star” is… um… stellar. Enjoy her track “Whatever You Want” below and then check out her whole album Invisible Sunday here and buy [...]