I’ll bet Fjord Rowboat has a pretty good live show. Combine the echoes of swirling, heavily reverbed guitars with a pounding drum beat and a stellar light show, and you have a recipe for a rockin’ good time. According to Canadian Music Week (which is still plugging Alanis Morissette), this band from the Great White […]
Usually an artist will be between records before they put out a “collection,” either that or something similar is considered a retrospective. Canada’s brother K-OS is not the usual musician, however, and he rarely does things that are expected. Therefore, on the heels of his critically acclaimed third album, Atlantis: Hymns for Disco, comes the […]
While Talib Kweli is definitely influenced by his community, his fellow artists, the place where he lives and creates, when it comes to the pure process of creation this can only be done by one. Eardrum comes to us at a time when everything is being questioned in order to make a shift in our […]
Do you ever read the press release for an album and get giddy at the prospect of listening to it? There is a good chance not, since you probably don’t read press releases. Most of them are pedantic and of little value. But sometimes you read who has collaborated on the album and get your […]
Add Melody Club to the ever-expanding array of Sweden’s polished-to-perfection musical offerings. They are an energetic synth pop outfit with very thick accents and catchy-as-hell tunage. At first, At Your Service smacks a little too hard of Pet Shop Boys, but as the album plays out, it definitely offers up a much wider array of […]
New York-based Shock Cinema may have the most obscure, confusing bio I have ever read. From what I can tell, the group consists of Miyuko Furtado (the Rogers Sisters), Danny Wood (…And You Will Know Us by the Trail of Dead), Destiny Montague, and Autry Fulbright.
San Francisco’s All Teeth and Knuckles is embarking in a mere few hours on its semi-national tour (they go as far east as Chicago). We met up at their practice space in West Oakland, which is home to DJ and synth master Giovanni De La Cruz, and where band founder and lead vocalist Patric “Sick […]
