Band of Horses was pretty damn good. I must say I was jaded by seeing MMJ the same week as I always regarded BoH as My Morning Jacket Lite. They were not as powerful or explosive as MMJ and lacked the overall stage presence and unpredictability a true rock show delivers, but they sounded great [...]
My Morning Jacket is a stellar live band and they didn’t let the crowd at the St. Augustine Amphitheater down. Jim James and company grooved, rocked, funked and jammed through an eclectic set of songs from It Still Moves through Evil Urges and sprinkled in 3 or 4 new songs. They exploded with ear-splitting volume [...]
Canadian music collective, Broken Social Scene have their 5th full-length release, Forgiveness Rock Record due out May 4th (leaked much earlier) and have honed and elevated their sound under the production direction of John McEntire. They have a revolving cast of talent to help flush out their giant sound. At any moment BSS can have [...]
When The Big Pink debuted last year I would have said please gouge my eye with a tainted pickle fork if I have to hear another indie pop duo. You got the White Stripes and Black Keys on the garage rock side to a slew of bands on the indie side like The Sounds, The [...]
Record Store Day (It’s like Christmas, but based on something tangible and rational) is an event to revive the beloved perusal of vinyl, cd’s, posters, and random rock related chotchkies. Remember that? The sad thing is I can’t think of many record stores anymore. Sonic Boom (is that what it was called?), CD Wharehouse, Peaches, [...]
The White Rabbits shot their “Percussion Gun” right in the face of an Orlando audience at The Social on Friday, the 9th of April. From what I gathered, the turnout for this show was smaller than their last cramped appearance, but the crowd here was dedicated Rabbit fans and not just indie buzz seekers. Here [...]
The fourth song is out, only 40 to go. The next thing is the first EP entitled Teargarden by Kaleidyscope Volume 1: Songs for A Sailor. This will be available for pre-order on April 17th,¬† National Record Store Day. It will be in a limited edition collector’s box along with a 7″ vinyl, artwork, and [...]
This is to be the first installment in a series of entries for The Coolest Song Ever! … Right Now dedicated to The Elevator Drops – the best band you’ve never heard. It makes no sense to me that this band never enjoyed any commercial exposure at any level at all – ever. I’ve described [...]
