The Sheepdogs
[L]ast year, Saskatchewan’s The Sheepdogs won Rolling Stone’s cover issue and became the first unsigned band to adorn the cover of the magazine. Since then the boys have been touring like crazed madmen, and they found some time record their debut album (and heck it was even
Blonds
[B]rooklyn via Florida’s BLONDS, are releasing another killer track coming from their forthcoming debut full length, The Bad Ones, which hits August 7th. “Time,” is being released today and is a superbly emotive slow burner track that’s intimate and really melodious. There is something about the vocal
Kelly Hogan
Patterson Hood – Come Back Little Star [P]atterson Hood is releasing his third solo record titled, Heat Lightning Rumbles In The Distance, on September 11th on ATO Records. Originally starting out as a fiction that Hood was writing, as it fizzled the songs kept pouring out. “Come Back Little Star,
Air Traffic Controller
Air Traffic Controller – Blame [B]oston native and former US Navy air traffic controller Dave Munro makes a triumphant return to the music world with the much-anticipated second album from Air Traffic Controller, titled Nordo. With the help of 150 fans and a little site called Kickstarter, Munro was
Turbo Fruits
[G]arage-Rock-Band Turbo Fruits are releasing a single off of their upcoming album Butter, titled “Harley Dollar Bill$” as their ode to two wheeled motorized transportation. I’ve been a fan of these guys for the last few years, their brand of fuzzed, garage rock… it’s full
Menomena
[A]rt Rockers Menomena have gone thru some changes over the last months. They are down to a 2 piece, but are releasing a brand new album titled Moms, on September 18th. This here is the first track from the highly anticipated new album, and what can I say, I’
Field Report
Field Report – Taking Alcatraz [F]ield Report comes into town tonight to play a show at Great Scott, and if you haven’t heard me try and sell you on them yet, I believe their music will do all the talking for me. Porterfield’s roots lie with Justin Vernon
Blonde Summer
Blonde Summer – Slow Days Fast Company [S]ummertime music should bring back those feelings of being a kid again, the days of languid lounging, poolside without a care in the world, the kind of life you had before you went to work. That’s exactly what Blonde Summer’s “Slow
Fletcher C. Johnson
[O]n tips from blogger friends Everybody Taste and New Music Collective I ended up listening to this summertime gem, and wow were they ever right. It’s extremely too short at a running length of two minutes and twelve seconds of toothache sweet retro pop a la the Ronettes.
White Ash Falls
[F]ormer Yukon Blonde member Andy Bishop has been a busy guy in his musical career. Bassist with Yukon Blonde, & Guitarist of Red Cedar, you wouldn’t expect a solo project that of White Ash Falls, but his solo project has a debut disc coming this fall and the
Miner
Miner – Hey Love I heard this song over at Songfortheday and couldn’t resist. Check out this track “Hey Love,” from the bedroom project of Justin Miner, formerly of Fight From Above, formed with friends and family. Miner’s debut EP ‘Hey Love’ was recorded in a small bedroom in
the xx
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_nW5AF0m9Zw[/youtube] [T]he XX is preparing a brand new record, Coexist, which drops September 11th. It seems as though they started right where they left off right on the previous record, a distant, echoey, guitar line paired with Romy Madley Croft’s