Beast: Devil
From their debut self-titled album, this is ‘Devil’ from Montreal-based band Beast, who are playing various venues this week in NYC for the CMJ Music Marathon and Film Festival. “It’s hard to tell you what we do. …when we first…
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The Lights Out: Five Seventeen
From Boston, MA, The Lights Out are: Rishava Green (lead vocals, guitar) Jesse James (drums, vocals) Adam Ritchie (lead guitar, vocals) Matt King (bass, vocals) The quartet cranks out the perfect soundtrack to a bank heist: breakneck, anthemic pop-rock, with…
She Swings, She Sways: What I Wouldn’t Do
We’ve got some Saturday morning Americana for you today folks, from Iowa collective She Swings, She Sways. Taken from their 2008 album Wasted Love Songs, this is ‘What I Wouldn’t Do’. “The members of She Swings, She Sways were all…
Minto: Burnt Down Trainbridge Blues
From their album Lay It On Me Transformation. Rebirth. Renewal. The Vancouver vagabonds formerly known as The Smokes have charted something of a non-traditional course over their half-decade of existence. The beginning? A rustic ode to Appalachia and steel guitar…
Starless and Bible Black: Your Majesty Man
From their upcoming album Shape of the Shape, due for release on 27th October 2009. “On their Sophomore release, The Shape of the Shape, Manchester, England’s Starless & Bible Black have drawn together the sounds of ‘70s Topanga Canyon country-rock,…