“Death by Diamonds and Pearls” is an anthem-y, rough and tumble track that contains pretty much every element you could want from a good rock song.
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While investigative journalists are digging through politicians’ trash, we’re digging through the musical archives to find the perfect soundtrack to the corruption of 2011.
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Grungy in her music and her lifestyle, Love did an excellent job of balancing heavy, dirty and screaming with soft, feminine and crooning.
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The undulating chill wave had the crowd in a deep under toe of euphoria at Lincoln Hall Friday night, where Com Truise and Purity Ring opened for Neon Indian.
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For the past 17 years, music has been getting louder and louder. How can we save music from drowning in a wall of noise?
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Colony Park, a three-piece indie-pop band from Chicago, opened for Ashtray Boy at the Empty Bottle Oct. 11, playing a short set of ’80s inspired guitar pop.
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Since his debut Ready To Die, rappers everywhere have been, for better or worse, using the late MC’s indistinguishable lines.
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Through his vocals and piano playing, Laurie invites an upbeat, revised syncopation in his adaptation of “Swanee River,” a traditionally melancholic song.
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The convention of the mixtape is where the genesis and the strengths of the soundtrack of 2004 indie film Garden State come about.
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The stigma of actor-turned-musician, or vice versa, is nothing new.
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Evan Caminiti – West Winds Rarely does cover art capture the sound of a musical artist, but the painting of a brooding maelstrom that accompanies Evan Caminiti’s West Winds perfectly conveys the sonic soundscape of the music within. Dense, dark and swirling, Caminiti(a member of San Franciso’s Barn Owl) balances voluminous power and a subtle beauty […]
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Madvillainy still sounds fresh seven years after, and aptly fits its “alternative hip-hop” title.
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