“Your Eyes Were Shining” is emotive indie rock, wrapped in guitars with the kind of vocals that most youngin’s pumping steel through the amps in their garages would love to possess. Or maybe they’d kill. A Gentle Reminder is out today, and ready for your listening…
“No Sleep” is pretty simple to explain. It’s guitars, it’s arrogance, it’s the same kind of cool ass riffs you heard in the past set to the lopsided grins and indifference of the future…it’s a kick in the balls. DZ Deathrays are apparently becoming a…
Lower Dens – Brains With it’s steady rhythm plucking along, I guess you could call “Brains” more food for your brain than food for the heart. This is likely not a track you’re gonna belt out the words to in the car – but it…
The Minor Leagues track “Ghost Maps” plays like a small slice of my childhood. Hold tight for easy days, where did they go? The bassline rolls throughout this track, an unheralded champion, while the keys take over and provide an amazing one two punch that…
For those of you who read regularly, you’ve already been introduced to Darlingside – they are a string rock outfit from Northampton, MA. I hope if you haven’t met them yet, you will take the time. Darlingside is putting out a new album called Pilot…
Eight And A Half – Scissors A trance like electronic sound (not trance music!) and half whispered/half sang vocals lead you into “Scissors”, the first song I’ve heard from Eight And A Half’s forthcoming self titled album that is due out in April. The track…
Tennis – My Better Self I’ll be honest. Tennis is a bit hit and miss with me. I loved “Marathon” and “Take Me Somewhere”, but Cape Dory didn’t quite fill my time like I thought it would after the initial rush. Now though, things seem to…
Bishop Morocco – Old Boys Dreamy. Catchy. “Old Boys” is those super high thread count sheets in that expensive hotel you stayed at on vacation that you’d love to get for yourself, but could never afford. Bishop Morocco are here to make that dream come…
Said The Whale – Heavy Ceiling “Heavy Ceiling” lets you know quickly that this is no slow jaunt through the city; between the quick bass licks of the intro and the moment that upbeat guitar darts out of your speakers and starts shucking and jiving…
Where “So Cruel” was smokey and filled with bluesy guitar rock, “Baby I’m Alive” is a step back in both regards. The instrumentation is sparse, arranged more for elegance than extravagance and the vocals are no longer self assured; here they are haunted and hollow,…
