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The songs on “Getting Down From the Trees” are polished to perfection; Polock manage to successfully straddle the fine line between overproduction and an underground sound, with just the right amount of sugar.

TweetShareI’ve always felt the conviction that if a band or artist is going to do a cover it should be an entirely new take on it. Any thirteen-year-old with some free time can learn to play a song identically with the original, if you need proof just look at forty percent of the videos on [...]

TweetShare New Manhattan are like an unsigned ball of indie perfection. One listen through “Come On” and I was already referring to them as a stripped down version of  The Strokes meets the younger and even more angsty  We Were Promised Jetpacks.  By about the sixth listen I put all comparisons aside, “These guys are [...]

TweetShare The Dead Trees owe a considerable debt to Albert Hammond Jr, in part because he’s twice taken them on tour with him, but more because his jagged guitar playing informs so much of their sound. Maybe I’m being unfair. In this post-”Is This It” world it’s tough not to hear the influence of The [...]

TweetShare Buy the album on Amazon – MP3 | CD Hailing from New York, The Postelles are fresh on the scene, but they’ve actually been around for a while. There were a some missteps along the way which delayed the release of their debut album by a few years.  In 2008, they failed to sign [...]

TweetShare Sometimes labelling a band ‘One To Watch’ can be a bit of a gamble. They might only have a promising EP, or a mighty good single. Not so with Nerves Junior: we’ve got a preview copy of their debut album, and it’s killer. The album, called “As Bright As Your Night Light”, isn’t out [...]

TweetShare It’s been ten years since The Strokes released the raw, genre-defining album “Is This It”, which has since been named the Best Album of the Decade by NME, among other titles and accolades. Holy shit! Ten years? It still sounds hip today, which cannot be said for a lot of other popular releases from [...]

TweetShare Even though they’ve been lauded from wherever you are now, to your antipode, and even though they’re from same fair land as I, Mogwai were just never a band I spent much time with. Maybe in my formative years as a teenager I was more concerned with Blink-182, Bloodhound Gang, and the back catalogue [...]

TweetShare The Mhurs gave us a generous preview of their album “In Another Tongue” a couple of months ago. The four tracks they shared, two of them tender emotional outpourings and two of them loud, adventurous rockers, had us pretty excited for the full length, but they did beg the question: can these two styles [...]

TweetShare Leatherbag has been rocking the Buddy Holly vibe since 2005, in their own continuation of the “New Sincerity” movement from the 90′s indie scene in Austin, Texas. It involved artists in different media expressing themselves in an ironically carefree way, with absolute “sincerity”. To get a quick idea of Leatherbag’s take on it, think [...]

TweetShare Buy the album from Amazon – Vinyl / MP3 / CD  One of the fundamental goals of running a music blog is to introduce people to new music.  The primary method of doing this is to highlight new releases, either via up and coming bands that show potential or tried-and-true musical mainstays that generally [...]

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TweetShare This London group combines a lot of elements that I regard as “preferable criteria” when I evaluate the appropriateness of a piece of music for my listening time. On show are heavy, but spacious Joy Division-esque drums, an almost Strokes-y sensibility to the guitar, sweet boy/girl vocals and big, lush synthesiser pads that fill [...]

TweetShare In a recent interview, James Murphy, the mastermind behind LCD Soundsystem was asked what band he expected to fill the gap left by LCD Soundsystem’s retirement this weekend at MSG.  His response: Erik Estrada’s Career Crisis. That’s right, the kids are mining second-rate, late-70s TV shows for their band names now. Regardless, the real [...]

TweetShare Yeah…….no. Still not feeling this new ish from the brothers Fab, and the video does nothing for me either.  I think it’s unfair for the rest of The Strokes to have to be all dolled up only for Julian to be prancing around in his after-work-jammies throwing cards around and disrespecting tables, but what [...]