Just over a year ago, Animal Collective released an album that I noted was “a great balance between art and pop,” a trend that continued thoughout 2009, the year that experimental indie bands began to embrace pop sentiments and make amazing albums. Without missing a beat, Yeasayer gives their own brilliant take on experimental and pop on what I&#…read more
Fun set of tunes this week, including lots of newbies and tracks from highly-anticipated upcoming albums. Also, we hope you all had wonderful Record Store Days? Get anything good?? Because we didn’t, so please make up for our lost time. Also, Jon and I probably definitely lost our indie credibility (and, uh, all credibility) on the show, discussing…read more
After hearing that our good friends The Scarlet Ending will be sharing a D.C. billing with The Cascade , I naturally needed to find out more. And by more, I mean anything at all. The Cascade began early this year in D.C. and quickly turned into a FIFTEEN piece musical collective. The leader of the pack is James Wolff…read more
So last year, I did a series called “12 Days of Christmas Music” and it was great! Very much a lot of fun! But this December was kind of hectic, very much a lot of busy. So I’m going to have to make you wait until next year for a comprehensive, 12-day tour de force of Christmas music. But you didn’t think I’d leave you empty-handed, did you? Coal in the…read more
You can stream what is probably my favorite album of the year at Spinner . Tags: Album Stream , Yeasayer Yeasayer and Arcade Fire this Monday! (3) Yeasayer – Ambling Alp (Music Video) (NSFW) (9) Yeasayer – Ambling Alp (6) Yeasayer “O.N.E.” (XXXChange Remix) (13) read more
On this issue of Knox Road Radio, I was sadly left to my own devices when Jamie and Lee were unable to make the show. But it was OK! I got a pair of my non-blogger partners-in-crime (vandalism, mostly), Zach and Steven, to help me play some of this past week’s most awesome music. And it…read more
Experimental pop band Animal Collective have released their new experimental film ODDSAC. The film is set to premiere at the Sundance Film Festival this year. The band had been working on the multimedia project “ODDSAC”. This is what the band said to the NME about the new… Click the link to read more read more
So many fun times this week at Knox Road Radio! Jamie and I held down the fort and played all sorts of great music, including a set consisting only of ridiculous songs from ridiculous albums set to come out this Tuesday. Don’t worry — we got you covered on reviews. Also, we determined that Josh Ritter is basically the…read more
If 2008 was the year for lo-fi and 2009 was the year for thoughtful experimentation (not necessarily so, but), perhaps 2010 will be the year for thoughtful lo-fi experimentation. Perhaps. Or perhaps it will just be the year that U.S. Girls came onto the scene with a wonderfully lo-fi experimental album that fuses basic tribal elements with haunting synth…read more
Beat Radio , aka Brian Sendrowitz (aka someone you better know if you read Knox Road!) has covered Best Coast ‘s, aka Bethany Cosentino’s, breezy “When I’m With You” for his latest singles 2010 project . The sound is even more raw with Sendrowitz’s croon, and he’s releasing it at the perfect time, as Best Coast has…read more
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