Someone has woken the bear – the Grizzly Bear (picture that being said in a mockumentary styled horror voice, and don’t read it as a lame pun intro, which to be fair, is how most of our posts start off)....
Calexico the band are not named after Caliexico the California-Mexico border city. They aren’t from California OR Mexico – they are from Tucson, Arizona. Yes, I feel cheated. The band has quite the extensive catalogue, and is looking to add...
A seemingly clever song title from Canadian indie poppers, Young Galaxy. The Vancouver band have put out a new song called Youth is Wasted on the Young, which you can listen to and download below (via Stereogum). Young Galaxy are...
The Killers will name their 4th studio album Battle Born, which is where the band recorded the album (via Consequence of Sound). It doesn’t quite have the same ring as “Abbey Road”. Brandon Flowers said to Rolling Stone, “In a...
A butterfly plague doesn’t sound that horrible, actually. It’s like when comedian Mitch Hedberg tells the joke about his apartment being infested with koala bears, and it’s the best thing ever – he’s turns the lights on and they scatter,...
Jesca Hoop is Born To….leave us with incomplete sentences. She is also about to release a new album, The House That Jack Built, on June 25. The song hinges around Jesca’s rising vocal command of the song, and a catchy,...
I’ll admit – I don’t know anything about Vancouver producer Teen Daze, except he just made a video for a great instrumental song, Treten. According to Consequence of Sound, the video for Treten combines footage from a couple of nature...
I fear that Google is going to direct the wrong kind of traffic to this site with the song title, xxx HATE xxx, in the header. But that’s what Parisian duo, Total Warr, decided to name their song, so I’ll...
No, Linda McCartney has not been resurrected and is making new music with her husband, Paul McCartney. Wait, would they still technically be married if she came back to live, since he is re-married? Is this even worth pondering? Anyway,...
When I think of baby monster, I think of that great 80s cartoon, My Pet Monster. However, Baby Monster are Daniel Sternbaum and Marty Larson Xu and are definitely not cartoons – at least not in the press pack I...
Echo Lake is a popular name for a lake. There are a few such names in provinces across Canada, and a handful more across the United States. Echo Lake is also the name of the London five piece, who are...
Today in the UK, producer Gold Panda released digital versions of his upcoming 7″ vinyl, Mountain / Financial District. You can listen to the A-side, Mountain, down below. And while I’m (well, Gold Panda) is in a giving mood, you...
Azealia Banks will release her slightly delayed album, 1991 EP, later this month (via Gigwise). We’re also going to get the FANTASTIC mixtape this summer, and her full length album, Broke With Expensive Taste, in the fall. Hopefully you like...
Front Man of Against Me! Wants to Be a Front Woman – Tom Gabel is Transgender It takes enormous balls to admit to wanting a sex change in the entertainment industry, but that’s just what Against Me!’s Tom Gabel has...
Damon Albarn is Making Another Solo Album Damon Albarn’s Dr. Dee opera soundtrack album is about to be released, but that hasn’t stopped him from announcing to BBC Radio 4 that he’s making a record under ‘his own name’ (via...
