Archive for the Indie Rock Category
Vivian Girls “Memory” (Polyvinyl)
During their initial run as a band, VIVIAN GIRLS were a band of outsiders for outsiders. The ones who loved The Wipers as much as Burt Bacharach as much as The Shangri-Las. They were the band that made the punks feel like they could sing harmonies and pop fans could […]
Thigh Master “Now For Example” (Goner)
Here it is! Brisbane (via Melbourne), Australia-based quartet Thigh Master are back with the long awaited second album Now For Example—the follow up to their 2016 debut Early Times. Following a string of sold-out singles as well as tours of U.S., Japan and Europe, the guitar-pop-guardians of the Brisbane underground […]
Death Cab For Cutie “The Blue EP” (Barsuk)
The Blue EP follows up Death Cab for Cutie’s latest full length, Thank You For Today, which was released last summer and debuted as the #1 album on Billboard’s Top Rock Albums and Alternative Charts, as well as the band’s first #1 album on the Billboard Vinyl Charts. The band […]
New Pornographers “In The Morse Code Of Brake Lights” (Concord)
The New Pornographers return with a new studio album, In The Morse Code Of Brake Lights. The album is full of classic songwriting with twisting lyrical content that touches on the humanistic side of life in current times, craftfully penned by frontman A.C. Newman.
DIIV “Deceiver” (Captured Tracks)
Rebirth takes place when everything falls apart. On DIIV’s forthcoming third full-length album, Deceiver – out October 4th – they craft the soundtrack to personal resurrection under the heavy weight of metallic catharsis, upheld by robust guitars and vocal tension that almost snaps, but never quite… Today, the band — […]
SQÜRL “The Dead Don’t Die” (Sacred Bones)
The Dead Don’t Die is writer/director Jim Jarmusch’s unique, semi-comic take on the zombie apocalypse genre. As with his recent efforts Only Lovers Left Alive and Paterson, the film’s score was composed and performed by SQÜRL, the band Jarmusch and producer Carter Logan founded in 2009. The score to the […]
Tegan And Sara “Hey, I’m Just Like You” (Warner)
Hey, I’m Just Like You is a return to Tegan and Sara’s rock and punk roots, with a punch of pop production. Recorded in Vancouver, Canada in April and May 2019, the album recasts the remarkable innate songwriting talents both possessed as teenagers, and allows these previously unreleased songs to […]
Gal Gracen “Fantasy Gardens” (Jaz)
Fantasy Gardens is Gal Gracen’s first full-length LP, a collection of elysian pop ballads dressed in a new age aesthetic pondering the nature of romanticism in the human world. Across 10 tracks,Geraghty layers harps, wind instruments, analog synthesizers, and samples from 1950s easy listening LPs to channel styles that vary […]
Rain Parade “Emergency Third Rail Power Trip” (Real Gone)
First-Ever U.S. LP Reissue and First LP Reissue in Over 30 Years Original Album Art, Red & Yellow Starburst Vinyl Pressing. Limited to 1000 Copies Though there are a number of worthy contenders’Dream Syndicate’s The Days of Wine and Roses, The Bangles’ All Over the Place, Green on Red’s Gas […]
Morrissey “Best Of” (Rhino)
Soon after the Smiths disbanded in 1987, Morrissey returned with his debut as a solo artist Viva Hate (1988). The album was certified gold in both the U.K. and the U.S. and topped the album charts in England. THE BEST OF MORRISSEY includes two key tracks from Viva Hate: “Everyday […]
Indian Summer “Giving Birth To Summer” (Numero)
The fourth leg on the early emo table of Rites of Spring, Moss Icon, and Cap’n Jazz, Indian Summer’s Giving Birth To Thunder compiles their complete discography. Emo’s second wave crashed into the Bay Area in the summer of 1994 in a rage-filled capsule of quiet and loud, octave chords, […]
Lana Del Rey “Norman Fucking Rockwell” (Universal)
Norman Fucking Rockwell! is the highly anticipated sixth studio album by Lana Del Rey. NFR was mainly produced and co-written with Jack Antonoff and includes ‘Venice Bitch,’ ‘Mariners Apartment Complex,’ ‘hope is a dangerous thing for a woman like me to have – but I have it,’ and the current […]
Lightning Dust “Spectre” (Western)
On Spectre, their 4th album as Lightning Dust, Amber Webber and Josh Wells embrace as their sole-focus what was once a side-project, thus crafting their most refined and powerful album to date. After co-founding and touring with Black Mountain for over a decade, the duo departed from the band to […]
L’Epee “Diabolique” (A Recordings)
180 gram, ruby vinyl. Includes CD. The debut album release from L’Epee, the band of Emmanuelle Seigner (Ultra Orange & Emmanuelle), Anton Newcombe (The Brian Jonestown Massacre), Lionel and Marie Liminana (The Limiñanas). It is very rarely that a musical project lives up to the billing of being a “supergroup”. […]
Mum “Yesterday Was Dramatic- Today Was OK” (Morr Music)
Triple LP version. Gatefold sleeve. Morr Music present a 20th Anniversary Edition of múm’s Yesterday Was Dramatic – Today Is OK. In 1999, on December 23rd to be precise, the electronic music landscape changed forever. On that day, the now legendary Icelandic band múm released their debut album Yesterday Was […]
Oh Sees“Face Stabber” (Castle Face)
Hey there, human kids, lift your face out of the feed trough and pluck that feculence from your ears. Hark! A sonar blip from beneath the pile of bodies—the latest Oh Sees, Face Stabber! Boop, blip, ughhh….people churning like a boiling swamp. Man, this din is nauseating. The screen flickers […]
Twin Peaks “Lookout Low” (Grand Jury)
The freshly powdered TWIN PEAKS have returned with a collection of new bangers for your fall season. Their first studio album since 2016’s Down In Heaven and their first produced effort with ETHAN JONES (Kings of Leon, Paul McCartney, U2). Lookout Low is a testament to the boys honing in […]
Kazu “Adult Baby” (Adult Baby)
Mesmerizing is the word for “Adult Baby”, the first solo record by Kazu Makino, to be released on Adult Baby Records, her new label. After nine albums with Blonde Redhead, New York based band in which she had accompanied the Italian twins Simone and Amedeo Pace as singer, songwriter and […]
Chelsea Wolfe “Birth of Violence” (Sargent House)
Chelsea Wolfe has always been a conduit for a powerful energy, and while she has demonstrated a capacity to channel that somber beauty into a variety of forms, her gift as a songwriter is never more apparent than when she strips her songs down to a few key components. As […]
Various Artists “Disco Not Disco” (Strut)
Strut Records were there first, well before DFA recorded The Rapture’s Sub Pop debut. ‘Disco Not Disco’ preceded the punk funk revolution by two years.’ Resident Advisor Strut present a new repress of the influential first volume of ‘Disco Not Disco’ compiled by Joey Negro and Sean P as part […]
Andrew WK “I Get Wet” (Enjoy The Ride)
The fan favorite semininal debut by Andrew W.K on vinyl for the first time in close to a decade. I Get Wet includes the anthems “Party Hard”, “She Is beautiful”, “Ready To Die” & “I Love NYC”. The album comes housed in a completely upgraded gatefold jacket printed by Stoughton […]
Devendra Banhart “Ma” (Nonesuch)
Devendra Banhart’s new album, Ma, is his first since 2016’s Ape in Pink Marble. Bursting with tender, autobiographical vignettes, Ma displays a shift from the sonic experimentation of his previous albums to an intricate, captivating story-telling and emotional intimacy. Banhart favours organic sounds to accompany his voice and guitar, the […]
Fly Pan Am “C’est Ca” (Constellation)
C’est ça marks the reunion of Montréal avant-rock quartet Fly Pan Am, who released an acclaimed series of albums in Constellation’s early years, from 1999-2004. The band’s heady collision of motorik repetition, shoegaze maximalism, punk skronk, tape- and electronic-based interventions and audio sabotage, garnered them a cult following among fans […]
Moon Duo “Stars Are The Light” (Sacred Bones)
Stars Are the Light, the luminous seventh album by the American psych explorers Moon Duo, marks a progression into significantly new territory. From a preoccupation with the transcendental and occult that informed Ripley Johnson and Sanae Yamada’s guitar-driven psych rock, and reached its apotheosis in the acclaimed Occult Architecture diptych, […]