The Swedish electro duo of Leo Drougge and August Hellsing have been working on a sophomore followup to Lo-Fi-Funk's 2006 Boylife debut. To give you an idea of what to expect, they opted to "leak" a…   Read Story »

The Right Track: Tunes To TargetCancer features pay-what-you-want downloads of new/rare tracks by Weezer ("The Rat Race"), Ween, and Dean & Britta, among others, to help "find better treatments for…   Read Story »

Forget what you've heard: The '60s Brit folk-nodding The Courage Of Others is a beautifully downcast, pleasingly oddball trip. The Guardian had the band do a fluted live set, offering another way…   Read Story »

Vancouver's Cameron Reed, aka Babe Rainbow, builds eerie, bump-in-the-night electronic landscapes he files under "surf-step." The compositions are chilly and atmospheric, but maintain momentum…   Read Story »

It's frustrating when texting "Haiti" to 90999 is the best most of us can do to counter the overwhelming devastation in that country, but that's a reflection both of our limited day-to-day resources…   Read Story »

Led by sagacious howler, songwriter, and occasional op-ed writer Carey Mercer, Frog Eyes are following 2007's Tears Of The Valedictorian with Paul's Tomb: A Triumph. We've only heard the collection's…   Read Story »

Victoria and Alex offer up live takes from their bona fide breakout Teen Dream over at Daytrotter.   Read Story »

When I posted about the blown-out gospel-noise of U.S. Girls a couple Septembers ago, I referred to it as the "Chicago/Portland project of Megan Remy." Now it's the Philadelphia project of Megan…   Read Story »

Brooklyn duo Acrylics are in that early phase of their career where knowing how and when to package the tracks they've recorded is tricky business. EP, LP, 7", digital download, questions questions…   Read Story »

This morning we saw what the new female face of Xiu Xiu brings to the table. Now we check in with her predecessor, Jame Stewart's ex-partner in Xiu Caralee McElroy, who's moved on to flesh out Wesley…   Read Story »