Rio en Medio's Snowy Frontier Music
Danielle Stech-Homsy's debut disc as Rio en Medio, last year's The Bride of Dynamite, found her operating well within the realms of freak-folk. Released on Devendra Banhart's Gnomonsong label, the...
Source: | 19 November 2008 | 7:22 pm
Megapuss Surfing Those Good Vibrations
Megapuss are here for a good time. And, by here, I mean existing as a project. The luridly-named combo are, at essence, an in-joke made public: an off-the-cuff, all-for-laughs collaboration...
Source: | 18 November 2008 | 2:20 am
Alela Diane Signs to Rough Trade, Readies To Be Still for February Release
With her album The Pirate's Gospel, Alela Diane introduced herself as the folk-revival-revival's latest heroine. Hailing from Nevada City, California —the same locale as harp-plucking freak-folk princess Joanna Newsom, and...
Source: | 15 November 2008 | 4:52 am
Architecture In Helsinki Back with That Beep
Those krazy kids from genre-juggling, funk-straddling, upwardly-mobile indie-pop monster Architecture in Helsinki have recently been back home in Melbourne, beavering away at a brand new sound. And the test results...
Source: | 15 November 2008 | 2:40 am
White Hinterland and the Legacy of Brigitte Fontaine
In 1969, a French chanteuse, an Algerian multi-instrumentalist, and a Chicago jazz quartet undertook an experimental, exploratory, revolutionary musical voyage. The album was Comme à la Radio, the fourth record...
Source: | 13 November 2008 | 3:11 am
Animal Collective Announce Merriweather Post Pavilion Tour Dates
Having previously illuminated the imminent arrival of Merriweather Post Pavilion, free-noise menagerie turned globetrotting pop-tribalist heroes Animal Collective have cobbled together a tour. The sometime New Yorkers have already unveiled the...
Source: | 7 November 2008 | 10:58 pm
Top 10 Breakout Acts of 2008, Starring Crystal Stilts
Brooklyn quartet Crystal Stilts have just fronted up with their first-ever longplayer, Alight of Night, a proudly lo-fidelity set that sets dangling guitars, splashy cymbals, and Brad Hargett's baritone moan...
Source: | 4 November 2008 | 4:47 am
Telepathe to Drop Dance Mother in February
Having already talked about my love of Telepathe, I can cut straight to the joyous news: the Brooklyn duo's debut album, Dance Mother is now due for a February 17...
Source: | 2 November 2008 | 1:03 am
Chairlift, Darlings of the iPod, Release Debut LP and Hit Up EU
If you've seen those recent television commercials hawking the color-coded wares of the new range of iPod Nanos, then you've heard the music of New-York-by-way-of-Colorado trio Chairlift. Hailing from the...
Source: | 30 October 2008 | 3:13 am
The Comedy Stylings of Max Tundra
Max Tundra is the natty musical handle of one tiny little London electro-prankster named Ben Jacobs. Jacobs' label describes his music as "cosmic glitch-pop R&B"; the one-man-show using archaic computer-programming...
Source: | 29 October 2008 | 2:34 am
