- Beach Fossils - “Daydream” Some musical combinations make intuitive sense, like rappers who can’t sing and Auto-Tune, for example. But others don’t make sense until you hear t...
- Rural Alberta Advantage - “Frank, AB” Thanks goes out to My Old Kentucky Blog for giving this Canadian band a showcase last weekend. Rural Alberta Advantage kindly drove down to Indiana...
- The Eels - “All the Beautiful Things” The Eels’ music is built on juxtaposition: (typically) downtrodden lyrics on a bed of crisp, pop melodies (with the occasional noisy freakout)....
- Regina Spektor - “Wallet” This track is off Regina Spektor’s latest album entitled far which comes out today! Not only do I love the story in this song, but I think it really repre...
- Lucksmiths - “The Music Next Door” Despite having been around since the early 90s (and despite having recently broken up), I only learned about Melbourne, Australia’s The Lucksmiths...
- Discovery - “Orange Shirt” Discovery is the unlikely side project built from members of two bands I wouldn’t necessarily have put together: Rostam Batmanglij of Vampire Weekend and ...
- Japandroids - “Young Hearts Spark Fire” On “Young Hearts Spark Fire” the garage rock duo Japandroids confronts the problem of youth: aging. “We used to dream. Now we wo...
- Doctors & Dealers - “On The Dancefloor” I imagine music in a Swedish jazz lounge would sound just like this. And by “this”, I mean very close to perfect....
- Kitty, Daisy & Lewis - “Polly Put The Kettle On” Kitty, Daisy & Lewis are siblings from North London who are 16, 21 and 19 years old respectively and play 40s/50’s rockabil...