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While the music of Iceland’s Seabear possesses a certain perennial loveliness, ultimately it is served most agreeably during the dark, wintry months. The promo pictures for the album find the bandm... Lees meer

Going back to the old-school Southern roots of its predecessors, Carolina Chocolate Drops'Genuine Negro Jig is composed of 12 banjo- and fiddle-laced tracks that paint images of simple country livi... Lees meer

Combining harmonious guitar melodies, passionately played keyboards and soft percussion as a backdrop for the simple-yet-meaningful lyrics that Peasant, the humble solo act of Damien DeRose's, soot... Lees meer

Jaguar Love, the Portland, Oregon-based band that sprung from the ashes of the Blood Brothers, just released its third full-length, Hologram Jams, on March 2 via Fat Possum. The band, which lost it... Lees meer

Pulsing percussion, multiple guitar melodies and sweetly played keys hold their own alongside the passionate, Scottish accented vocals of frontman Scott Hutchison on the Frightened Rabbit's thought... Lees meer

A name like Efterklang— which translates from the Danish as "reverberation"—would likely lead another band into the devastatingly obvious territory of shoegaze-effects saturation, but not so for th... Lees meer

The Golden Archipelago, Austin-based Shearwater's second full-length on Matador, shakes off any remnants of the basic rock sound of 2008's Rook and embraces the band's unparalleled, epic rumblings.... Lees meer

Trying to describe I Was Trying To Describe You To Someone, the third full-length from Long Island's Crime In Stereo, is like trying to describe a person. Each song is a different dimension of a mu... Lees meer

On the first song on the Magnetic Fields'Realism, Stephen Merritt tells a would-be suitor that "you can't just go and say things because they're pretty/and I know longer drink enough/to find you wi... Lees meer

In 1993, the Athens, Georgia-based experimental metal band Harvey Milk recorded what should have been its first album. The tracks got shelved, but in 2009, the LP was remastered and now, five studi... Lees meer