July 2009

The New Slave: Bright City Lights

San Francisco , California , US Built around glacial Pink Floyd rhythms and spacey guitar and keyboard textures, the New Slave boast a psychedelic sound. But for all of the space they create, this band is focused: the hooks are…

Walk the Moon: Stone Cold Fox

Walk the Moon is a soulful indie-rock band from Cincinnati, Ohio, whose sound evokes traces of the Police, XTC, ELO, Squeeze, and the Killers. Nicholas Petricca, 21, sings lead, writes, and plays keyboards, synth, and keytar. He and Adam Reifsnyder…

The Coal Men: Nightingale

From their album Kids with Songs After ten years of touring, broken bones, dealing with death, destruction and the general mayhem of living in a van, recording when possible, and writing amazing songs, Nashville-based band, The Coal Men have signed…