Live Review: Radiation City at Bottom of the Hill
Portland indie rock faves Radiation City popped in to Bottom of the Hill Tuesday night on their weeklong West Coast tour, playing tracks from their debut album The Hands That Take You.
Stream: New tracks from The Black Keys
Head to The Black Keys’ website to stream five new tracks from El Camino, the band’s seventh studio album due out next Tuesday, December 6 on Nonesuch Records.
Celebrate Black Friday with Record Store Day
Next Friday is Black Friday, which normally means lying in bed with a food coma and avoiding all shopping centers, or waking up early and trying not to get trampled at the entrance to a Best Buy.
Hot Track: The She’s, “Jimmy”
Teenage wunderkind quartet The She’s released “Jimmy” this week, a new track from their debut Then It Starts to Feel Like Summer, which drops November 29.
Video: Youth Lagoon, “July”
Boise, ID’s Youth Lagoon (chosen moniker of 22-year-old Trevor Powers) kick off a string of November US tour dates on Tuesday night at Bottom of the Hill.
Review: In A Wild Deep, “A Small Collection of Folk Tales”
The mysterious In A Wild Deep sent me a Facebook message a few days ago, offering their debut EP of folk tales to rustle me from a (rather wild and deep) musical rut.
Stream the new Real Estate, “Days”
This Tuesday, Jersey indie-pop trio Real Estate are set to release Days, their sophomore effort and follow-up to 2009′s self-titled collection of reverbed, lazy summer tunes.
Album Review: Dum Dum Girls, “Only In Dreams”
Only In Dreams is a lush yet lyrically dark record, spanning retro guitar rock to simple, catchy pop with a healthy layer of reverb and repeated choruses.
R.E.M. to release retrospective collection
It’s not quite the end of R.E.M. as we know it — a few days after announcing their breakup, the band announced their upcoming 2-disc retrospective Part Lies, Part Heart, Part Truth, Part Garbage: 1982-2011, due out November 15 on Warner Bros. Records.
Album Review: Clap Your Hands Say Yeah, “Hysterical”
OK, there’s no use burying the lede: Clap Your Hands Say Yeah have written a fantastic Killers record. The 12 tracks on Hysterical are a blur, with nothing to grasp onto and little to find memorable.
Preview: Part Time @ Thee Parkside
Local music blog Positive Destruction presents an alliterative lineup of Bay Area bands Thursday night at Thee Parkside, featuring Mexican Summer-signed new wavers Part Time.
She & Him to Release Christmas Album
Merge Records announced yesterday that Zooey Deschanel and M. Ward will release their first collection of Christmas favorites entitled A Very She & Him Christmas on October 25.
Hot Track: Signal Hill, “Van Gogh Sky”
Post-rock instrumental quartet Signal Hill are back with “Van Gogh Sky,” a new track written and recorded from opposite coasts over one weekend for a split 7″ vinyl with All India Radio.
Preview: Drop Apollo EP Release Party
Local quintet Drop Apollo are about to drop the New King EP — catch them this Saturday for the release party at Red Devil Lounge.
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