Interview: Brooklyn’s Breaking Laces starts its tour

May 18, 2011   1 Comment  

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Get thee to Rockwood Music Hall

CMJ 2010: Day Five

Oct. 26, 2010   1 Comment  

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We made it!

CMJ 2010: Day Four with The Jezabels, Fake Problems, and Two Hours Traffic

Oct. 23, 2010   Leave a Comment  

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Partying with the afternoon showcase

CMJ 2010 Featured Artist: Empires

Oct. 21, 2010   2 Comments  

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Passionate, straightforward rock free of any gimmicks and pretense

CMJ 2010 Featured Artist: My Other Friend

Oct. 20, 2010   Leave a Comment  

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An emotional blend of orchestral indie and garage rock

Getting to Know: Motel Motel

Oct. 14, 2010   1 Comment  

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Feel nostalgic and adventurous

Holding on to summer with Vampire Weekend on the Waterfront

Sept. 14, 2010   Leave a Comment  

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Indie Ivy League tour de force at BoA Pavilion

The Bloodsugars: I Can’t Go On, I’ll Go On

Nov. 30, 2009   1 Comment  

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Not your typical Brooklyn band

Getting to Know: Still Life Still

Nov. 26, 2009   Leave a Comment  

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Quintet releases first LP after 10 years

Not your typical coloring book

Oct. 5, 2009   Leave a Comment  

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Two friends and a love of music combine to form the Indie Rock Coloring Book

Gossip: “Music for Men”

Oct. 4, 2009   Leave a Comment  

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Will this album make them mainstream? Should it?

The softer side of Amy Millan

Sept. 1, 2009   Leave a Comment  

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She knows how to play to her indie rock fans

Division Day, “Visitation”

Aug. 3, 2009   Leave a Comment  

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After splitting with their label, the group found themselves with nothing to prove and nothing to lose

Loquat spills its “Secrets”

Dec. 4, 2008   1 Comment  

Tour stories from San Francisco based indie-pop group Loquat sound a lot more like a haphazard family vacation with a tight budget than a trip to perform in cities around the U.S. [...]

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Back to school with Bound Stems

Sept. 2, 2008   Leave a Comment  

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Bound Stems’ sophomore effort, “The Family Afloat,” out September 9, makes a convincing case that Gallivan and company could have made their livings practicing psychology and family dynamics.

Surf’s Up for The Stills

Aug. 1, 2008   1 Comment  

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When “Oceans” is released on August 19th, there’s a good chance The Stills’ summertime good fortune will continue. It’s their strongest record to date, coming on the heels of 2003′s “Logic Will Break Your Heart” and 2006′s “Without Feathers.”

CSS for the summer

Aug. 1, 2008   Leave a Comment  

Opener “Jager Yoga” includes delightfully nonsensical phrases like “Desperate Living, Hairspray / Baltimore with Tanqueray / Live your life John Waters’ way.” “Let’s Reggae All Night” makes it hard to resist the urge to do just that.

Death Cab for Cutie shoots for the Stairs

June 2, 2008   Leave a Comment  

When I heard that Death Cab for Cutie’s “Narrow Stairs,” which was released last month, was the number one album in the country, my first thought was, “I wonder what Seth Cohen would think.” [...]

Ready for the Foals

May 1, 2008   Leave a Comment  

With regard to “Antidotes,” the debut album from British indie outfit Foals, the sentiment “if you’ve heard one song, you’ve heard them all,” isn’t an entirely unfair assessment. Fortunately for the band, they’ve honed a winning formula of upbeat dance-rock, with a sound that invites comparison to groups like Bloc Party, The Rapture and occasionally [...]