indie rock
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MP3 Lenses Alien, the new album from New Jersey’s Cymbals Eat Guitars, arrives on August 30th on Barsuk Records. Soon after, the band will kick off a lengthy tour across the United States. We’ve already heard one track from the album, a staggeringly ambitious opening track called “Rifle
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Yeah, So by Make Wave Believe it or not, it’s already August. Aside from signaling the impending end of the summer season, this fact means that some people out there are probably getting a little tired of catchy, summery pop music–the kind that gets played on road trips
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A music video from Connecticut’s own the Guru. This track is a great show of the kinda sunny and eccentric indie rock you’ll be in or with a visit of the band’s latest LP, Native Sun. Stream the whole thing via Bandcamp. Buy it for three bones
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New Jersey’s Cymbals Eat Guitars have big plans in the coming months. They’re set to release their sophomore album Lenses Alien on August 30th, and will hit the ground running with a lengthy United States tour soon thereafter that includes stops in Connecticut, California, and everywhere in between.
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Though the Horrors’ new album Skying doesn’t officially come out until July 11th, the British indie rock band has followed the established trend of internet streaming and and made the LP available to hear in advance. Skying is streaming in its entirety at the band’s website, which has
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After announcing its existence and playing SXSW, Wild Flag is finally gearing up to release a debut full-length. The band is kind of like a fem-rock Voltron, built of members from various indie rock bands of note: Carrie Brownstein and Janet Weis of Sleater-Kinney, Mary Timony of Helium, and Rebecca
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New video for the Balkans track “Troubled and Done,” which comes off their new album that’s out now. Kind of confused by the green screen, though. Should we take it upon ourselves to superimpose the band in various places and situations? Just wondering.
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Buffalo/Starfish 7" Single (on lovely pink vinyl) by The Deloreans A new single from the Deloreans, which comes off their latest album, American Craze. Order a physical copy of the 7” here.
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On their latest album, the Antlers work to improve the lo-fi recording quality they were dealing with on their last album, and they definitely succeed in that department. The instruments and the mix sound absolutely fantastic. But there are more changes. First off, the storytelling that made their past LP
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On their latest LP bring a lotta tunes with little cohesion. There’s a kinda shaky love song theme linking some of these tracks together, but it doesn’t stop tracks like “No Future Shock” from jumping in out of nowhere. I enjoy quite a few of the tracks here,
