Origin: Manchester, England The 1975 were one of the best new bands of 2012, and are now certainly ones to watch for 2013! The boys create a blend of British indie and alternative rock, and do it very well. Being from Manchester, like many other bands, you’d already expect them to be quite similar to other acts, however this band are able to be distinguished and cut out from all the rest – genre is…
They’re back with a third album and it’s all guitar riffs, synths, and rhyming lyrics! But what’s so different about it to the rest? Well it is quite a different approach by the boys; compared to the 2008 debut St Jude and 2010 album Falcon. Being cut from the same cloth, I guess you won’t be surprised to hear it as a combination of the style of these two albums. The album opens with a…
Canadian garage rock duo Japandroids hit “Conan” last night when they played “The Nights of Wine and Roses” off the band’s sophomore release, Celebration Rock. Check their pulsating performance below by hitting play on the video. Also, right after the jump, check out the dates and venues for the band’s upcoming tour which will see Japandroids playing North American and European festivals starting this March. Along Japandroids will be joining Cloud Nothings and Gaslight Anthem on…
Since their third studio effort It’s Blitz (2009), gutsy New York threesome Yeah Yeah Yeahs have remained all-too-quiet on the music scene. The four-year silence was broken, however, when the group announced the drop date of its fourth album, dubbed Mosquito (yes, for the insect), two weeks ago on their site. The YYYs have also pledged to play a slough of new dates, including the two weekends of Coachella. When asked about the record, which has been in-the-works since…
Michael Belsar and Guy Chappell from Twinsy Almost a year ago the water works began at the announcement that Jet was breaking up. The sun seemed to be setting on Australian alternative rock music. However, new innovative bands are arriving on the scene and providing a fresh sound that is giving hope to everyone’s inner-Aussie. Last Dinosaurs was the first band to really step out of the outback. These young indie…
Photo credit The upcoming new year sounds like a packed one for the Baltimore dream-pop duo, as the band recently announced a string of dates that will see them busy playing venues right before new year’s eve until late April, 2013. Beach House is set to tour Australia, Japan, much of Europe, as well as the States. Check out the band’s recent video for “Wild”, off the recently released full length album Boom,…
Source The indie band, Phoenix, recently finished the recordings from the upcoming album, witch is actually a follow-up to another album, Wolfgang Amadeus Phoenix. Daniel Glass, the band’s head of the label, officially announced that the album is going to be released in April next year. Even if they haven’t made public any name of the tracks from the upcoming album, you can enjoy this song below, which is one of…
Considering the huge musical difference between Foals’ first two full-length efforts, the jerky math-rock yelps of ‘Antidotes’ and the eerie textured anthems of ‘Total Life Forever’, no one could accuratley predict what to expect when the Oxford five-piece announced the release date of new album ‘Holy Fire’, followed by the premier of new single ‘Inhaler’ last week. Although front man Yannis Philippakis has hinted at a heavier direction, I don’t think anyone could have predicted this. Anyone…
Oshin is the debut album by Brooklyn-based indie rockers DIIV. What is most striking about this album is its utter smoothness; each track flows into the next without abrupt turnarounds in melody or tempo. Do not be mistaken, however. Oshin’s track list is anything but the same ‘ol for forty minutes. Instead, each song works in conjunction with the others and gives the feeling of cohesiveness that many bands wish they could achieve. DIIV…
Today, I am going to talk about a successful musician from Essex. Now, you may think that there is nothing particularly original, innovative or special about that. But let me tell you, Alex Day is different. On paper, many record labels would have sneered at his chances of success. He promotes his music through YouTube, allows fans to use and listen to it for free on his website, releases multiple songs at the same time,…
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