The latest addition to the Modest Mouse line-up, former Smiths axer Johnny Marr replaced Dann Gallucci (Tunsten Gat, Murder City Devils, A Gun Called Tension), who led the group to it’s first and only Grammy with his penning of Float On. And from the gate, Marr’s presence rings out.
Hailing from Kentucky, Bye Bye Beautiful is The October’s sophomore venture after Push Me Off the Side of the Earth. Comprised of members Dustin Burnett (vocals, guitar, keyboard), Michael Lloyd (bass, backup vocals), Aaron Spraggs (drums, backup vocals), and Ryan Cain (guitar, keyboard, backup vocal), the group models their sound after 80’s new wave, with […]
North Carolina’s The Old Ceremony consists of songwriter Django Haskins with a “collapsible-expandable” orchestra of collaborators. Their second album, Our One Mistake, plays like a combination of many different reference points: Ben Folds, The Black Heart Procession, Coldplay, and Nick Cave. The piano-driven sound leads to an interesting cross between pop songwriting and a darker, […]
With vocals as masseuse-like as Ben (Deathcab For Cutie) Gibbard’s and the melodic intuition of Elliot Smith, The One AM Radio’s This Too Will Pass is relentlessly emo, emo, emo. The harmonic musical landscapes make some subtly twisted maneuvers, and consistently sounds as if the band emanates from a cave behind the one-man-band-master, Hrishikesh Hirway’s […]
