Archive for September, 2009

Your New Favorite Band: Jonneine Zapata

Your New Favorite Band: Jonneine Zapata


To listen to Jonneine Zapata’s new record, ‘Cast The Demons Out’ is to listen to a record with an intensity I haven’t heard since Springsteen’s Nebraska.  To see her live is to feel you heart and lungs...
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Your New Favorite Band: The Wendy Darlings

Your New Favorite Band: The Wendy Darlings


Can you imagine living in a world where only you believe in the magic of great music? Or playing music with an energy and pop sensibility, only to be told it’s time to grow up and...
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Julian Plenti- Live @ The Guggenheim


Julian Plenti chose The Guggenheim in NYC as the site of their first concert.  And we’ve got highlights!  Quality isn’t tremendous on these, but it’s well worth watching for those of you who love the album as...
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World Premiere Video: Home Video

World Premiere Video: Home Video


Here’s the new video from Home Video, whom we interviewed here. To purchase their new album, click on the cute little button below:
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TDOA Podcast: Rob Dickinson- The Interview

TDOA Podcast: Rob Dickinson- The Interview


What becomes a legend most…?  How many great artist have we talked to about the bands they played in during the 80′s and 90′s?  How often have they tried to distance themselves from their earlier bands, denying...
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Your new favorite band redux: Crocodiles

Your new favorite band redux: Crocodiles


We first brought Crocodiles to your attention back in April, when this SoCal 2-pieces’ wall of sound tickled our fancy.  Since then, they’ve appeared on Carson Daly, toured endlessly with a series of great bands and have...
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Taking the shrinkwrap off


This weeks’ collection of the best music that’s traveled past our eardrums: Apteka- Traitors (song of the year potential?) A Sunny Day In Glasgow- Close Chorus Times New Viking- Martin Luther King Day Maps- I Dream Of Crystal The...
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Will Sergeant: The Interview

Will Sergeant: The Interview


When Echo and the Bunnymen released their first album, “Crocodiles” in 1980, they set a standard in post-punk that few bands were ever able to achieve.  Surrounded by a slew of one-hit wonders, they put out four classic records...
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Your New Favorite Band: My Sad Captains

Your New Favorite Band: My Sad Captains


Obviously we love interviewing the big names in music (Will Sergeant, anyone?), but we’re always going to be partial to that new indie band that tickles our ears.  London’s My Sad Captains have been making great...
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History Lesson: The Telescopes

History Lesson: The Telescopes


Formed in 1987, Stephen Lawrie created some of the most sonically challenging music of the burgeoning “shoegaze” era. Taking the noise of the Jesus and Mary Chain records to a new level, but maintaining a pop sensibility that set...
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