I have to confide that sometimes I just get so filled to the brim with music that, good or bad, my sensibilities get kind of dulled to it all. This never lasts long because I can count on something to come along and zap me like an electric current, knocking the boredom and lethargy [...]
Visit The Yellow Stereo for a HUGE Daily Graboid, including Mogwai, Okkervil River, Calexico, The Broken West, and The Lovely Sparrows, among others, plus some coverage on Athens Popfest 2008.
The Vinyl District highlights some amazing albums, including The Posies’ Frosting on the Beater, Jeff Buckley’s Grace, and John Lennon’s Plastic Ono Band.
To Die By Your [...]
Not too long ago, I posted a letter from the core members of Canadian band The Dears, Murray Lightburn and Natalia Yanchak. Today I got the word that the band’s latest album, Missiles, will be released on Dangerbird Records on October 21.
Upcoming tour dates:
Sep 30 Starlight Room, Waterloo [...]
We at Speed of Dark are movie and book buffs as well as music lovers, and in the area of film few hold higher esteem with us than the Coen Brothers, Joel and Ethan. Indie Mom can quote verbatim from “Raising Arizona,” and my husband’s favorite is “The Big Lebowski,” which we have to [...]
It was clear from the placement of the equipment on the stage that somebody in the Glaswegian band Sons and Daughters planned on moving around a lot. When the band came on, it was tiny Adele Bethel who took command of the stage, all glitter and gold like a Mardi Gras queen or a [...]
Kiss Me at the Gate is a four-piece from Birmingham, Alabama. On this song, “Underfoot”, lead singer Claire Cormany evokes Shirley Manson. Get three more tracks from the band’s official website and listen to “Come On”, a track from their new album Tape and Scissors on their myspace.kiss me at the gate: underfoot [...]
Across the nation, moms and retailers are celebrating the fact that many children went back to school this week. A few children are even happy about it.
Marcy at Lost In Your Inbox is celebrating the end of the week with some Friday songs. Earlier in the week she listed the qualities she shares [...]
Indie Mom first discovered Birdmonster’s debut full-length CD, No Midnight (2006) with her favorite song of theirs “Janine.” “The Bar In the Back of the Basement” from that album wound up on my Favorites of 2006 list. We’ve been trying to see them ever since then, but somehow it just didn’t work out when [...]
Opening for Shearwater last Wednesday at the Echo were Jenn Wasner and Andy Stack, the Baltimore-based duo who make up Wye Oak. Jenn is the singer and songwriter, and she can shred the bejeebers out of a bass guitar too. Andy keeps busy with one hand on the drum kit and the other [...]
