After two decades, 10 albums, more than a dozen members and a much-needed hiatus, The Black Crowes are on the cusp of releasing their first new record in seven years. Warpaint is a rallying cry—the sound of a band that has rediscovered its musical vitality and continues to forge its own unapologetic path…
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Prepare yourselves. Guitar Hero may be getting even more, well, heroic.
To which particular heroes do we refer? The Beatles, of course. They’re heroic in the world of music if anyone ever was. To that end, rumors have been circulating that a Beatles-themed version of Guitar Hero may be in the works. [...]
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Things seem to be going pretty well for White Rabbits these days. Tonight, they play a benefit for the American Museum of Natural History in New York City (tickets are still available here), the theme of which is “Enchanted Forest” (awesome!). They then hit the road, starting with a few SXSW dates, followed by [...]
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Montreal noisemakers AIDS Wolf, the four-piece whose motto is “We are a f****** cult and will cause you harm and ill will,” have announced a quick round of North American shows before a whole bevy of European ones leading up to the release of their second full-length, Cities Of Glass, this summer on Skin Graft. [...]
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Tigercity has announced plans for a two-month tour, kicking off at SXSW this week. The Brooklyn-based band self-released its debut EP, Pretend Not To Love, in 2007, and followed up with heavy touring, supporting the likes of M.I.A. and the Rosebuds, among others. The four-piece’s disco-infused indie-pop earned them recognition as the iTunes “indie spotlight” [...]
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ASTHMATIC KITTY RECORDS MAIL LIST MARCH EDITION
1. Cryptacize Album and Tour
2. DVD (and don’t forget the Independent Exposure competition)
3. Music for Videogames
4. Happy Ending
5. Unusual Animals Mutates into Louisville
6. SXSW 2008 (Listen!)
7. Tour Dates
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We’re about to head off to SXSW 2008, so if you’re going to be in Austin as well, catch us at one [...]
When childhood friends Duffy Driediger, Darcy Hancock, Sean Hawryluk and Ryan Peters were ready to self-record their first album back in 2005, they had a very specific sound in mind for Ladyhawk’s debut. “We wanted to have a real live-sounding record,” Hancock explains. “We did it all live in the same room because we refused [...]
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This Bay Area outfit cross-references bluegrass guitar, mandolin, vast percussion, and orchestral arrangements into a mildly freaky yet no less tangy folk salad. The exciting twist: All this sound comes from just two people. On their sophomore album, Visiter, it all comes together with cunning cohesion, their studio tinkering giving birth to tracks like “Winter,” [...]
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The opening track on Fleet Foxes’ debut EP is the perfect introduction to this Seattle band, whose carefully fashioned songs reward more active listening than your typical indie-roots outfit. “Sun Giant” begins with their soft harmonies reverberating in what sounds like a cathedral space. With no accompaniment, their sustained a cappella notes fade slowly, [...]
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Food for Animals come at hip-hop from an oblique angle. Or, to put it less gently, they do it ass-backwards, inverting the traditional roles of beats and rhymes. MCs Vulture Voltaire (aka Andrew Field-Pickering) and Hy (aka Sterling Warren) hold down the rhythmic pulse with their flows, while the beats– well, the beats just [...]
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