Tracks - page 24

For a guy still revered for a long-defunct garage-rock band that played it loud and played it rough, Bob Mould sure knows how to write a pop hook.

Given the massive PR effort that went into the release of the album St. Vincent in February, it's unlikely that many people will have missed Birth in Reverse, but with something this good it's best...

Futuristic psychedelic dance-rock plus funk for you now, courtesy of Brooklyn’s Bear in Heaven. Autumn is taken from their forthcoming album Time is Over One Day Old, and is set for an August 5th release,...

Something new and pretty tasty from Lo Recordings here. Astronauts is a new project from Dan Carney, whose previous bands include Dark Captain (and Dark Captain, Light Captain, although no-one seems to mention that, which...

Our Love is a typically heartfelt Sharon Van Etten song. Its beautiful and intimate video adds to the song's emotional resonance with its lingering black and white shots and feelings of despair and distant detachment....

On first listen to Interpol’s new track All the Rage Back Home from the forthcoming anagrammatical album El Pintor I was struggling to see what others were saying about it being a return to form....

Sometimes when you get a tweet out of the blue from someone you don’t know it’s auto-generated hip-hop spam, sometimes it’s a tweet about a song you were already kind enough to RT to the...

Eternally Dizzy are a new band out of Columbus, Ohio, consisting of frontman Andre’ Vanderpool, Joe Camerlengo on bass and Jeremy Skeen hammering away pretty hard on drums. And that is pretty much all I...

File under “hotly anticipated”. Jungle’s self-titled debut album is out next week, on XL recordings. In the meantime, they’ve put out this week’s funnest, most joyous video to accompany Time. Featuring two middle-aged heroes strutting...

After the release of Rent I Pay last month, Spoon have released another new track from forthcoming album They Want My Soul. Like the best Spoon tracks, Do You gets its work done with the...

And still the new music keeps on coming… This one ought to take us through the next few months, maybe up to the end of the year even, depending on how post-happy I get.

It feels like a great time to have more than a passing interesting in shoegazing, with a seemingly never-ending wave of new bands taking the old ‘gazer template and tweaking it with their own styles....

Wilco’s Jeff Tweedy (and also family Tweedy’s Jeff Tweedy) has released a video for one of the tracks from the forthcoming album Sukierae. Originally planned as a solo project, Tweedy now comprises Jeff and his...

Jamie first appeared on DGC Rarities, Vol 1, a Geffen compilation of rare and unreleased tracks by the label’s artists. A paean to the band’s lawyer Jamie Young, it was scheduled to be Weezer’s first...

Originally appearing on Volume 6 of the legendary Volume series of indie compilations in April 1993 (and then on Sharks Patrol These Waters: The Best of Volume, Part II in May 1995), Fake ‘88 got...

The joy of Come To is all in that ringing dream-pop guitar sound. I don't know how, or why, but it does funny things to my brain.

Having been reared on 1962-1966 (aka The Red Album), and 1967-1970 (aka The Red Album), I took the path of least resistance and started my own Beatles album collection with Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club...

Word is that Scorsese’s preferred cut for The Wolf of Wall Street is an hour longer than the theatrical release. That’s one whole hour on top of a film that’s already touching three hours. Quentin...

I think I’ve explained the demise of The House of Love in enough detail in previous posts (nutshell: drugs, egos, bust-ups and bus stops), but it’s always worth reminding yourself that they were as good...

Some songs, no matter how good, are just destined for hidden track status. Brilliant though they are, catchy though they may be, something about them means they don’t quite work as album tracks, but leave...