Eric Richter (ex-Christie Front Drive, Antarctica, and The 101) has made his new band’s debut EP available free for download at Myspace. Golden City is a Brooklyn quartet that lines its anthematic choruses with slightly darker strains of early emo (yeah, I know). Recorded in 48 hours by Ian Love (Rival Schools), 1 is as […]

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When I first heard that Duran Duran had scrapped a completed album that had been billed as a return to their new wave roots in favor of trendy Timbaland and Justin Timberlake collaborations, I was ready to stick a fork in the band, as I’ve been tempted to do on more than one occasion over the years. Ok, […]

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During a recent US tour with Bloc Party and the Noisettes, The Maccabees performed a four-song acoustic set for Daytrotter, which you can listen to here. Three songs are from the band’s dizzying debut Colour It In and translate amazingly well to the extremely sparse setting. Vocalist Orlando Weeks’ warble is much more subtle here […]

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The Guardian takes a jab at the purple one’s latest single: “It sounds like a musical inferior doing an impression of Prince.” Ouch. But also, sadly, true. You can listen to the song and a watch a promotional video here. The new record, Planet Earth, is out July 24 in the US on Sony/BMG. In […]

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[kml_flashembed movie=”http://youtube.com/v/CcXCaXz0GbU” width=”425″ height=”350″ wmode=”transparent” /] QOTSA has launched a mini-site to preview it’s new record, Era Vulgaris, due out June 12. The site streams a few new tracks and has a game to gain exclusive content. Everything I’ve heard so far sounds pretty rocking (like the first single, “Sick Sick Sick”), but I do […]

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Pelican’s follow-up to 2005’s The Fire in our Throats will Beckon the Thaw, is streaming at Hydra Head records. It’s entitled City of Echoes and comes out Tuesday, May 22. Upon first listen, the instrumental quartet’s latent metal sounds like a departure from the post-rock sheen of Fire. The structures seem a little bland and […]

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Yes, Roxy Music’s long-delayed reunion record is in line behind Bryan Ferry’s latest solo outing- an album comprised completely of Bob Dylan covers called, well, Dylanesque, of course. The set , due June 26, was recorded in a live-in-the-studio session over the course of one week, and the songs benefit from the loose and breezy […]

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