Wax Pick: Yeasayer – Odd Blood
February 11th, 2010 by admin | 1 Comment
Pick up this great sophomore release from one of Brooklyn’s own.
February 11th, 2010 by admin | 1 Comment
Pick up this great sophomore release from one of Brooklyn’s own.
February 3rd, 2010 by admin | No Comments
A long string of events indirectly led me to one of my favorite albums of the past few seasons.
January 27th, 2010 by admin | No Comments
Get your psychedelic electro-rock fix with French duo, Air!
December 18th, 2009 by admin | No Comments
John Mayer is single-handedly reviving the stratocaster. Respect it.
December 2nd, 2009 by admin | No Comments
The Followill Family Band saw greater success overseas than stateside in their own homeland, but Only By The Night gave the Nashville quartet the breakthrough success that they’d been hunting for. Grab it for $4 today only.
November 24th, 2009 by admin | No Comments
Volcano Choir is a great little side project with Justin Vernon (Bon Iver). You’ll hear his influence clear as day atop the pseudo math-rock, and always eclectic base of his counterparts.
November 20th, 2009 by admin | 2 Comments
Normally the freebies aren’t worth the hard drive space they take up, but these ones are legit.
November 4th, 2009 by admin | No Comments
Passion pit is a great, and somewhat quirky, electronic group from the east coast. The project actually started when singer Michael Angelakos decided to write a few songs to give his girlfriend on Valentine’s Day.
October 15th, 2009 by admin | 1 Comment
The Big Pink is an electro-rock duo from London that just put out their first full length album on 4AD records a few weeks back. I’ve been really digging it, sort of a hybrid of shoegaze rock with electronic undertones.
September 9th, 2009 by admin | No Comments
Amusement Parks on Fire is a UK band bringing back the shoegaze.
August 18th, 2009 by admin | 12 Comments
Check out the latest from New Orleans’ finest, a band only 5 or 6 years into their current project that has already garnered Grammy noms and completely defined a genre all their own.
August 13th, 2009 by admin | No Comments
Once again, Urban Outfitters has compiled a great mix of tracks for download on their site. This time, they’re funneling everything through iTunes, but the music selection is just as eclectic and fresh as ever.
July 18th, 2009 by admin | No Comments
Greg Kurstin’s production is brilliant, Inara’s vocals are spot on, and the future-retro music they’ve been cranking out for years is still unmatched by any other. And today, it’s only 99 cents!
July 7th, 2009 by admin | 2 Comments
Discovery is a side project from members of Vampire Weekend & Ra Ra Riot. I’m not the biggest fan of either of those two bands, but have really dug the programming in the new group.
June 10th, 2009 by admin | 1 Comment
If you’re a fan of acts like Sigur Ros, Devotchka, and Sufjan Stevens, be sure to check out Fanfarlo.