The latest to come out of music-rich Portland, OR, is Bark Hide and Horn, a four-piece who play folk-rock with horns and other unusual effects. National Road, the band’s first full-length album, following up their self-titled EP, is a musical journey inspired by singer-songwriter Andy Furgeson’s collection of old National Geographic magazines and its [...]
From The Dears’ myspace:
Meltdown in A Major
This could have been a message saying that The Dears is over.
Instead:
Almost 10 years ago, The Dears made a ghetto little record called “End of A Hollywood Bedtime Story.” We were a four piece back then until two dudes split right after we finished making it, leaving just [...]
photo from hereVisit The Yellow Stereo for his Daily Graboid, always a source of great new music this week.
The Vinyl District waxes on about Elliott Smith’s timeless masterpiece album, Either/Or, which contains a song with great personal meaning for me, “Between the Bars”.
One of the newer sites on our blogroll, but one that I read [...]
A lot of bands have claimed the Beatles as influences, but I’ve seldom heard any that have done it as well as The Telepathic Butterflies from Winipeg have done on their recently released CD Breakfast In Suburbia. Rejean Ricard (guitars/vocals) and Jacques Dubois (drums) incorporate memory-tickling inflections of the late 60’s/early 70’s British invasion [...]
I did not know until recently that Thom Yorke even had a brother, much less that said brother was also a musician. Andy Yorke, younger brother of Radiohead’s Thom, releases his first solo album to the U.S. today, published on his own label, Aktiv Records. He formerly was lead singer and guitarist for [...]
Another current album that has caught and held onto my attention lately is Little Jabs by Two Hours Traffic, a four-piece outfit from Canada’s Prince Edward Island (NE of the state of Maine, for geography-impaired Americans). Made up of Liam Corcoran (vocals, guitar), Derek Ellis (drums), Andrew MacDonald (bass), and Alec O’Hanley (guitar, keys), [...]
