Cloudspeakers

It's one thing, in 2010, to release an album that owes a college-loan-sized debt to all sorts of post-punk touchstones; it's a totally different thing, however, when such an album-- a debut, no les... Read more

When Clogs released the Veil Waltz EP in late January-- one new song, with some incidental music and a few unreleased odds and ends-- you'd be forgiven for thinking the post-rock band's forthcoming... Read more

Yeah, you can lump Veronica Falls in with the growing throng of like-minded C86 / Sarah Records revivalists, but don't write them off because of that. On a tune like "Found Love in a Graveyard", th... Read more

Considering they turned phrases like "no culture icons" and "more parts per million" into irresistible earworms (in the same song, no less!), creating something as reductive as "Canada" seems benea... Read more

For all its style-switching and adenoidal shrieking, one might think "Spector" is actually something the group cooked up during their days with the Mae Shi, the band Signals emerged from last year... Read more

It was one of many spices flavoring the goodies available on their don't-call-it-a-comeback album Third, and it was the primary ingredient behind the music on Beak>, so the krautrock vibes on "C... Read more

"Castaways" brings bucketloads of the grandeur and scope that folks have come to expect from Shearwater-- the rolling drums, the crashing piano, Jonathan Meiburg's indomitable bellow. However, tho... Read more

When it comes to a Paul McCartney concert at a sports venue in 2009, you know what you're going to get-- a little Wings, maybe some solo stuff, a whole lot of Beatles, and some stadium-sized produc... Read more

The Soft Pack are from San Diego, but after listening to this tune, it'd be easy to think they originally met each other at a Q and Not U/ Ted Leo show at Fort Reno. (That the group actually playe... Read more

It takes a certain amount of cheek to tease an upcoming album with what's slated to be its concluding track. It takes even more of that particular brand of moxie when said track features the band i... Read more