Fans and critics alike will forever consider Spritualized to be one of those bands whose every release comes off as if it was its own momentous occasion.
Ever since the career-defining latitude he attained with 1997’s epic ‘Ladies & Gentlemen We Are Floating In Space‘, group mastermind and former Spaceman …
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The decision to add a second weekend to this year’s Coachella Music Festival has turned Los Angeles into a virtual hotbed of artistic activity, as a good number of groups performing at the Goldenvoice juggernaut are killing time between desert sessions by setting up …
It’s hard to believe that it’s been nearly a decade since revered Britpop pioneers Blur released their last studio album, but what seems more inconceivable is that frontman and primary songwriter Damon Albarn has arguably been more productive in the years that followed than in the formidable ones before the …
The name Unknown Mortal Orchestra is only partially correct at best.
While it has been confirmed that the members of the group are indeed human and therefore subject to death, one could hardly consider them an orchestra given that the entire idea was originally conceived as a solitary bedroom recording …
To say that a good chunk of rock music currently exists within a post-Jack White paradigm could easily be called a case of gross overgeneralization or pretentiously lazy journalism, but one thing it couldn’t be considered is a blind understatement.
The infamous term ‘sophomore slump’ is often seen as sort of an elephant in the room among certain music circles.
Whether you’re an out-of-nowhere act ascending with the wave of success that naturally comes with a blockbuster debut, or simply an up-and-coming group looking to build upon the buzz of …
2011 was relatively quiet for Southampton-based blues rockers Band Of Skulls, but the rest was not without reason.
Following the launch of their critically-acclaimed 2009 debut ‘Baby Darling Doll Face Honey‘, the group spent the subsequent years seeing their stock rise rapidly, beginning with iTunes selecting ‘I Know …
It’s hardly a coincidence that the arc of Dead Meadow’s career so closely mirrors the surge in psychedelic rock revivalism that has occurred over the past decade.
While their hazy mixture of blues and brown acid may be as old as Robert Plant’s first floral-print blouse, their mere presence in …
Indefinite hiatus is rarely a good thing for music. Whenever most bands find themselves tagged with the term, it more often than not means there is no turning back. Either the individual members slowly wither away into endless anonymity, leaving a trail of what-ifs and what-could-have-beens in their wake, or …
The last few years have been a rollercoaster ride towards the top of the indie heap for Kristen Gundred, better known around certain circles as Dee Dee – the singer, guitarist, and main creative force behind Los Angeles-based rockers Dum Dum Girls.
Shortly after the abrupt dissolution of her previous …
– The Jim Jones Revue are proving to be a band impossible to pigeon hole; a force of contradiction as much they are a force of nature, evoking the past, yet writing the future. Indulging in nostalgia, yet enthusiastically embracing the 21st century.
When The Horrors first emerged onto the scene back in 2006, they did so with a cultivated cool that teetered on the edge of in-authenticity. From the campy creepshow fake names to the made-to-order mystery that surrounded their shock-rock stage antics, it was no surprise that there seemed to be …
