A heavily distorted guitar fades in with a low grumble akin to the sound of Dallas Green’s previous band, Alexisonfire, only to be supplanted by a strike on the acoustic guitar. City and Colour is Green’s acoustic brainchild, and The Hurry and The Harm is his latest LP. Green has a strong voice, which he [...]
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Portugal. The Man manages to shift its sound over and over, even within a single song.
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The Features blend decades of music and have been doing it for just as long.
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These days, the term “folk” is being thrown around for anything that involves an acoustic guitar. So when The Front Bottoms gets tagged as “folk-punk,” as oxymoronic as it sounds, it fits. The two-piece out of New Jersey matches punk riffed out on acoustic guitars with savvy leads on everything from a classically folk accordion [...]
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Chance the Rapper and his Merry Prankster music.
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Snoop is at it again!
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For some, The Flaming Lips represent a sonic optimism, an enthusiasm for life. The fans come again and again for the circus where animals dance to loud, happy music and Wayne Coyne wears his suit, rolls on the crowd inside a giant inflatable ball, and tells them how great they are again and again. Diametrically, [...]
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Iron & Wine’s Ghost on Ghost slides in with a weird jam of whining guitars and organs, with odd beats strung around them—only for a cymbal crash to cut the section off and have “Caught in the Briars” come in with a that familiar Iron and Wine sound. No, it is not the fall-asleep-over-an-acoustic-guitar sound [...]
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Can you teach an old Dogg new tricks?
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Thomas Meluch’s latest album feels like an old tale.
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If you want to leave a show covered in confetti, with your ears ringing and a shit-eating grin – then these might be your bands.
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Unknown Mortal Orchestra’s second album is a textural exploration of the old style.
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