Whispering sweet nothings into the heart of indie darlings’ ears everywhere is Menomena, who have returned recently with a new album which follows the band’s string of unique successes with 2005’s Under an Hour and …

Lasse Jertsen is a twenty two year old film maker from Larvik, Norway who, among his other talents, has found a way of splicing his own sampled notes into songs. What’s amazing about the …

A link to Peter Bjorn and John’s performance on Late Night with Conan O’Brien was recently posted over at Gorilla vs. Bear and those commenting on it seem to lean towards suggesting that the performance …

Since the release of 2003’s Skull Ring it has seemingly become cool again to be Iggy Pop. The band’s backing him on the album, Green Day The Trolls and Sum 41, had heaps of …

Animal Collective are at such a stage in their career which its members can take liberties with its fans, this is no better reflected than with the band’s People EP. Its three studio tracks …

Despite last year’s surge in reunited bands releasing new material 2007 may prove far more important with releases by terrific bands including Dinosaur Jr. and The Stooges returning to the studio (and inevitably the stage). …

My initial listen to the band back in August left me fairly intrigued as the band was oddly familiar and filled in a hole left by bands such as Animal Collective who hadn’t released any …

What a complete 180° Nellie McKay experienced in 2006. An eagerly anticipated album of completed material put on the shelf only to see the light of day in the later stages of the year …

It used to be that Deerhoof made little to no sense to the average listener and lived within the outskirts of musicianship. But with a sly shift towards the sound developed for Friend Opportunity, …

Not sure if you’ve heard, but The Shins are huge. On the heels of the band’s successful performance on Saturday Night Live the band is rumored to have sold some 90,000 copies of its …

Though much of the news concerning the pre-confirmed line-ups for Bonnaroo and Coachella set the internet on fire last week with names being thrown around including Tom Waits, Björk, Pearl Jam, The Arcade Fire, The …

I suppose the college freshman in me really wants to see this movie as I’m sure it will be irreverent, ridiculous and pretty much a downright laugh-factory. I haven’t watched the cartoon …