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When Kurt Vile first landed on the scene early last year, you got the feeling that he could write songs by the dozen. In October, Matador unveiled Childish Prodigy, the Philly psych-folker's first ... Lees meer

Suckers make music with personality. Just over a year ago, the Brooklyn indie rock outfit released its debut EP. It was buoyant and sweet and ended on one very high note: "It Gets Your Body Movin'"... Lees meer

Not a year after releasing sophomore full-length The Knot, Wye Oak return with a quick EP that handily bests it. My Neighbor/My Creator marks the first time Baltimore's Jenn Wasner and Andy Stack h... Lees meer

Peter Wolf Crier is Peter Pisano and Brian Moen, a Minneapolis-based basement folk duo bred in Wisconsin. Both players have made marks on the Eau Claire scene that fostered Bon Iver's success-- Moe... Lees meer

Karen Elson is in a tough spot. Not your average singer-songwriter, she is both supermodel and wife to Jack White of the White Stripes, Dead Weather, and Raconteurs. As the story goes, Elson, who's... Lees meer

Within the first seconds of Total Life Forever opener "Blue Blood", it becomes clear that Foals have taken a leap. Front and center, between tick-tocking guitars, frontman Yannis Philippakis begins... Lees meer

Moon Duo are San Francisco's Sanae Yamada and Erik "Ripley" Johnson, guitarist for psychedelic journeymen Wooden Shjips. After a quick EP and single released within a year of their 2009 formation, ... Lees meer

Young, emerging guitar rock bands are lately investing a lot of thought and time into ensuring that their pop music is as steeped in fuzz and scuzz as possible. Harlem are an Austin three-piece tha... Lees meer

Mimicking Birds is the spectral folk/home recording project of Portland's Nate Lacy. This, his first full-length under the MB guise, was produced by Modest Mouse's Isaac Brock for the latter's Glac... Lees meer

The men of Real Estate are very generous about backing one another's likeminded creative adventures. Bassist Alex Bleeker's first solo EP is in front of the Freaks, a gang that's more Crazy Horse t... Lees meer