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Maximo Park Tour Their 'Earthly Pleasures' (CMJ)
Newcastle's poptarts Mximo Park will kick off their North American tour this summer in support of their sophomore album, Our Earthly Pleasures , out May 8 on Warp. The band has been noticeably absent from the US while working on the record, which was produced by Gil Norton (Pixies, Echo & The Bunnymen).
New Album Reviews (Columbia Daily Spectator)
It wasn't so long ago that Stephen Colbert said about the Decemberists, "Why couldn't they be like every other indie band and just copy the Pixies?"
Arts & Entertainment Articles (Columbia Daily Spectator)
We Were Dead Before the Ship Even Sank It wasn't so long ago that Stephen Colbert said about the Decemberists, "Why couldn't they be like every other indie band and just copy the Pixies?"
CD reviews: The Stooges, The Frames (Northwest Herald)
Generally, it?s not a good idea for a band to take a multi-decade hiatus between albums. See: The Who?s ?Endless Wire,? Steely Dan?s ?Two Against Nature? and whatever mediocrity might result from this summer?s Police and Genesis reunion tours.
Music Review: Eldridge Rodriguez - The Conspiracy Against Us (Blogcritics.org)
My favorite rock album of 2006 was by the New England collective The Beatings, whose sweet-tart invocation of the greats of Boston's postpunk history (The Pixies, Sonic Youth, Mission of Burma) on Holding Onto Hand Grenades struck me as much more than just attribute to their influences. In the wake of the release of Holding Onto Hand Grenades , Beatings guitarist E.R. (aka the improbably ...
THIS LITTLE UNDERGROUND (Orlando Weekly)
For one night last Saturday, Orange Avenue was radioactive with credibility . Bottlenecked on a six-block stretch, a cluster of national indie pezzonovantes paraded through downtown. Orlando was the seat of hipness, and it felt good, goddammit.
What he lacks in cool, he makes up for in indie rock enthusiasm (WOI Radio Gr...
In this quirky music memoir, John Sellers explains why he built his life around the indie music scene. His book is broken down in two parts: first, Seller's youth and college years in Michigan, and finally his obsession with prolific Ohio-based rockers Guided by Voices.
FIVE ROCKERS (The State)
Who rocked out at St. Pat?s in Five Points? If you didn?t see them, here?s five sets you missed that made the daylong festival cooler than the outside temperature.
HOW CAN I MISS YOU WHEN YOU WON'T GO AWAY? (San Francisco Chronicle)
Never can say goodbye. Sorry may be the hardest word, but goodbye is too good a word, gal. You say goodbye, I say hello. Looking ahead to the summer concert season, here's an incomplete guide to the comings, the goings, the coming-backs and going-...
Small wonders (Chicago Tribune)
Continuum's book series celebrates classic albums Everybody has favorite records. To this degree, we're all proud defenders of sonic delights no matter how dated, flawed or unpopular they seem to others. When discussion turns to such matters, too much information is never enough, particularly when outsider opinions vehemently concur -- or disagree -- with our own.