Earlier today we posted an interview with the Globes,who toured with and are fellow label-mates of Maps & Atlases. The latter has announced a new spring tour, which will take them across Europe and North America. The tour is in support of their upcoming album Beware and Be Grateful, out 4/17 on Barsuk. Additionally, M&A […]
Easily one of the best shows I saw in 2011 was Thee Oh Sees at Seattle’s Crocodile. I recently described that show akin to a team of 10 angry black horses barreling down a dusty, bumpy towing a dilapidated, wooden carriage: at any minute you feel the wheels could fall off, but hot damn, is it […]
Our SXSW 2012 preview continues with a New York musician who’s made his way through an assortment of genres and made it very difficult for me to type 25 characters and summarize his career, believe it or not. Matthew Dear is an incredible artist who’s most recent’s 2012 effort Headcage offers a groovy, atmospheric take on his […]
The next artist we’re spotlighting for SXSW is Montreal’s quirk-wizard Grimes. Yesterday was a big day for Claire Boucher, as she took over Gorilla vs Bear for the day and the Minneapolis Star-Tribune reported that Boucher and a friend fashioned a houseboat-raft, took live chickens, 20 pounds of potato and a sewing machine and embarked […]
Down here in Austin, there is a really great legal conference that occurs in March called SXSW. Anyhow, the cop teams are already getting ready for the self-declared “shit show of the year” and so are millions of bands, blogs and beer drinkers. One of the names on this year’s 8,000-band roster is Bleached. This […]