rock

  • 80s

    The Drums finally drop a track from that new album the band teased us about just a little while ago. The band hasn’t exactly renovated their sound, but it does seem refined. The instrumentation is tighter, and the vocals–while they do hit a nice falsetto–feel much more

  • Idiana’s Sleeping Bag is gearing up to drop its first LP in August. In the meantime, the band has dropped two tracks, and “Ben” is one of them. Here, the band shoots for a tight and close sound that gets in the listener’s face, but still executes the

  • While it certainly doesn’t seem as official as John Maus’ video for “Head for the Country,” the eerie and sci-fi movie footage strung together in this video seems pretty appropriate for the track “Cop Killer”–admittedly, one of my favs from Maus’ latest LP, which we’ve got an

  • album

    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

  • A new video for the Beach Fossils track, which comes from the band’s latest EP, What a Pleasure. I even audio reviewed that bad boy right here. If you’re digging on this, look for this release on Captured Tracks. /via/

  • dub

    Love Hitch by Young Circles Earlier this year, Young Circles’ EP Bones delivered five fuzzed-out and well-crafted noise-pop melodies with rich and orchestrated textures. On the forthcoming debut, Jungle Habits, the trio has sewn together eleven new tracks, highlighted by the dangerous single, “Love Hitch.” The band’s direction, maturation,

  • 60s

    Brooklyn’s Woods has a new track out, “Find Them Empty.” This track finds the folk rock band moving towards a style that I’ve always wished they would explore more directly: The stormy psychedelic rock sounds of the 1960s. With brazen electric guitars signaling a deviation from their freak

  • On Iceage’s full-length debut, the band forges a cohesive style in raw, messy musicianship and noisy guitars. Sometimes it’s overwhelming, and sometimes it’s just catchy and loveable. But it’s always giving off some kind of strong energy or emotion–even at its most apathetic. WATCH THE

  • WU LYF’s debut album rides in on a tidal wave of reverb and eccentric yelps from the band’s lead singer. While it does have a uniform sound and a style, I feel like the style drowns out what this band has to offer in this songs most of

  • dance

    New video for Metronomy’s “the Bay,” which is off the band’s latest LP, the English Riviera. Watch a review for the album right here.