Most critics agree on the praise for Amanda Jo Williams. Although her voice is highly idiosyncratic, with a clawing southern drawl and punchy delivery, her songwriting is inventively addictive; the contrast is
New Tracks
London-based Black Manila cite hardcore early garage, specifically The Pretty Things, as a major influence, but "Fiasco" touches on ferocious art-rock and sneering punk as well. Over repetitively hypnotic guitar strums, nasally
"Langour" is a sultry track from Candy Empire, an Estonian four-piece that recall the raucous garage-rock sound of The White Stripes with a darkly brooding Brit-pop emphasis. As for the latter, predominantly featuring
Los Encantados are a rising Brooklyn-based six-piece with a knack for throwback, summer-friendly rockers. They incorporate their love of surf-rock and throwback pop like Jonathan Richman or Little Joy, who recall the
"Scientists" is a crisp folk-pop track from The Sons, a five-piece from Derby, UK. They've been around since 1994, when Paul Herron met Ken Reeves at the University of Derby, and they've
Of Montreal dropped the music video for “Spiteful Intervention”, which makes viewers feel as if they dropped some acid. Here, we see frontman Kevin Barnes, but not before a pulsating blob of autumnal colors
Rob Holliday has performed with names as big as The Prodigy, Marilyn Manson, and Gary Numan, and despite this his head is still screwed on (pretty) tightly. In 2012, Sulpher will release their first material since
endoflevelbaddie make game changin’, genre-crossing electronic music with elements of 8-bit electronica and credible hip-hop packed tightly within. This is interesting stuff that takes Kingston-Upon-Hull’s sound out of the gutter and (near enough) into the stars.
New Albums
The new album from Aidan Leclaire Band, Hail to the Dogs impresses with its alt-rock immediacy and poignant thematic introspection — taking
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Enjoyable rock mystique and compelling folk intertwine on LAZARENE, the consuming new EP from Dean Muscat, a singer-songwriter based in Malta. “These
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A consuming sound shows across the Not Today Old Friend EP from Rolla’s, the solo project of Vancouver-based multi-instrumentalist Vallen Koscheev. Its
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Enthralling with a hip-hop sound that exudes both hazy summer atmospherics and emotively gripping lyricism within memorable vocal flows, June Was Something
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