Mobile: Tales from the City
The Juno Award-winning “Best New Artist” of 2007, Toronto-by-way-of-Montreal rockers Mobile step up their game on their second album. Not content to follow the lead of their critically acclaimed...
View ArticleLollapalooza 2009, Sunday recap: Spending warm summer days indoors
All right, we didn’t actually spend the day indoors, but we hid in the shade as much as possible, because, well, it was freaking hot today. This led to one of us staying up north (he had other plans,...
View Articlestellastarr*: Civilized
The latest from New York City based indie rock band stellastarr* (yeah, that’s how they spell it – no caps and that silly asterisk) is more of what you may have come to expect from them if you have...
View ArticleOriginal Motion Picture Soundtrack: The Twilight Saga: New Moon
RIYL: Vampires, werewolves, everlasting love Say this for soundtrack supervisor extraordinaire Alexandra Patsavas: with the soundtrack to “New Moon,” the second installment in Stephenie Meyer’s...
View ArticleThe Bravery: Stir the Blood
RIYL: The Killers, The White Lies, Black Tie Dynasty With their self-titled debut, the Bravery were the anointed “next big thing” in the Post Punk revival that has defined indie music in the first...
View ArticleQuintessential Songs of the ’00s: #6 “Mr. Brightside”
The heavily promoted “When We Were Young” actually hit #1 on Billboard’s alternative chart, but “Mr. Brightside” climbed to #10 on the Hot 100, which is an impressive feat these days for a rock song....
View ArticleBrandon Flowers: Flamingo
RIYL: The Killers, Vigilantes of Love, U2 Flamingo, or chameleon? Listeners who mainly remember Brandon Flowers from early Killers hit singles like “Mr. Brightside” and “Somebody Told Me” may be in...
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