What do you get when you cross San Francisco's The Bilinda Butchers with a dash of Man Without Country-style driving synthgaze? The new single "The Lovers' Suicide!", that's what! Layer jangly guitars with relentless synth wash, you come up with an intriguing new direction for the Bay Area's indie darlings. Download available from March 5th, vinyl and CD ships by March 15th.
//orangenoise has once again made their album, "//A Journey to the Heart of the Matter" available as a "name your price" download at their Bandcamp site. One of our favorite all-around releases of 2012, these tracks demand your attention by grabbing your eardrums and refusing to let go. That such excellent songwriting and musicianship should come out of Karachi, Pakistan... well that's just an unexpected bonus. Following up 2011's masterful […]
Hot on the heels of her critically lauded "Daydreaming" EP, Samira Winter is looking to take her project, aptly titled "Winter" out on the road beyond the friendly confines of Boston. We caught up with her recently to ask about her plans for touring, as well as recording. __________________ Samira, you've been getting a lot of positive press, not just from us, for the stunning debut you dropped day before […]
Their first single, "Strange Feeling" charted in the Top 50 of 2012 in our listener poll, pretty impressive for a debut single. On the heels of their new release, "Hold Your Hand", we chatted with Caleb of Bear State about their growing notoriety and future plans. So, Bear State is currently based in the dream pop capital of North America… Phoenix, Arizona (sarcasm). Phoenix is known for a LOT of […]
A live reversioning of "Into Black", sounding different yet just as lovely as the original. One of our audience's favorite and most highly-rated tracks.
Strange Corners' second full-length, "Strange Pleasures" is expected to be released on May 7th, via Sub Pop, and the band will tour the UK behind the release. No other European or US dates have yet been announced. They've also offered a free download of the LP's first single, "Berlin Lovers", in exchange for your email. Our listeners loved their full-length 2011 debut "Creatures Of An Hour", and this is likely […]
One of our Best of 2012 deserves a blog mention. Shallow's "Sweet Meet" ranked number 34 on our listeners' Top 50, and with good reason. One of those tracks we'd best describe as "beautifully broken", it's just a micro of the macro. There are several great can i order flagyl online tracks from their "Mistakes" EP that were added to rotation shortly after release, and remain there today. If you're […]
We added Airling to rotation in early December, and only now is it starting to garner attention in the blogosphere, largely on the strength of the single "Rucksack" from their debut EP. Our second big "get" from Australia in recent months, this song shows a great deal of promise as to where this band is headed going forward. Check out Airling on Bandcamp.
MBV (album) Hot on the heels of My Bloody Valentine's long-awaited "m b v" release, they've announced details of their world tour (to date). No US dates have been made available as yet. Finally: My Bloody Valentine release new album, mbv, their first in ... My Bloody Valentine 2013 Tour Dates: 02/03 – Seoul, KR @ Uniqlo Ax 02/05 – Osaka, JP @ The Hatch 02/06 – Osaka, JP @ […]
