acoustic

  • 2012

    Hooray! The Mountain Goats has dropped a new track from the longstanding singer-songwriter project’s next album: Transcendental Youth. It’s no secret that John Darnielle and co. have been incorporating more and more instrumentation into the Mountain Goats’ sound, and they’re really acting like it by releasing a

  • 2012

    P:1 by Teotl Expansion A handful of long, ambient motifs built of electronically edited piano playing coming off this Teotl Expansion EP, P:1. While, on paper, the musical concept of this EP seems pretty simple–and, uh, well, it is–the final result is something that’s actually

  • Experimental folk outfit Woods is gearing up to release a new album in September titled Bend Beyond. “Cali In A Cup” is the first single from the album, and it’s unbelievable how sunny and lighthearted the track feels. I mean, this track is essentially coming from the band that

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    Hot off the release of their new album, the Lion’s Roar, here is a video of the Swedish folk duo performing a passionate, beautiful cover of Joan Baez’s “Diamonds and Rush.” /via/

  • 2012

    The Tallest Man On Earth proves the power of consistency on his third full-length album. WATCH THE REVIEW

  • 2012

    I was hoping for a Grizzly Bear album this year, and it seems like I’m gonna get it. After a handful of solo projects since the release of the band’s 2009 album, Veckatimest, the band is back with a new single titled “Sleeping Ute.” I’m actually very

  • 2012

    Stream: Sonny and the Sunsets- “I See the Void” “I See the Void” is the lead single from the forthcoming album Longtime Companion by Sonny and the Sunsets. It’ll be the band’s third full-length LP, and this song followers their “classic” style. It’s earnest, smiling, while still

  • 2012

    It was only June of last year that Marissa Nadler released her self-titled fifth album, but the prolific singer-songwriter is already planning to put out another LP this year. Titled The Sister, the album is slated to drop on May 29, slightly less than a year after the release of

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    Texas singing and songwriting legend Daniel Johnston has a new album out titled Space Ducks, which is in celebration of the new comic book he himself created. The SXSW showcase he played last month was actually the release party for it. The album features a seven new tracks from Johnston,

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    A new song has emerged from Damon Albarn’s concept album Dr. Dee, which is about John Dee who was an advisor to Elizabeth I. The song is pretty simple just a lightly strummed acoustic guitar and eventually some claps with background humming. Albarn’s vocal delivery is pitched pretty