NAME: The Wrens PRGRESS REPORT: Recording the followup to The Meadowlands at bassist Kevin Whelan's home studio in Teaneck, New Jersey. We usually like to catch bands after they've been in the…   Read Story »

Good morning, 2009. True to form and band lore, the mighty Wrens released one of the past decade's best albums, like they do ... and then retreated to too many years at their day jobs, to play the…   Read Story »

NAME: Kings of Convenience PROGRESS REPORT: Recording their third studio LP, Quiet IS The New Loud (working title), at Esagono Studios near Reggio Emilia, Italy Things are coming full circle for…   Read Story »

Today we present the second installment in a series that brings you classic indie rock albums at hugely discounted prices. Every week, Amazon.com is letting us select one album from its MP3 store to…   Read Story »

In January, The Lifted Brow, a biannual "50% fiction and 50% everything else" Melbourne-based magazine, is putting out an issue that includes two CDs with exclusive music from Spiral Stairs, the…   Read Story »

In January, The Lifted Brow, a biannual "50% fiction and 50% everything else" Melbourne-based magazine, is putting out an issue that includes two CDs with exclusive music from Spiral Stairs, the…   Read Story »

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After OKX, our 10-year cover tribute to the Radiohead classic OK Computer, we soon began narrowing the list of prospects for our next celebratory project: sifting, sorting, debating, etc. But when we…   Read Story »

The Wrens On "Nightswimming" "But OK, why I like the song, 'Nightswimming' ... just 'cause it's beautiful. It's simple, almost like one of their older songs (well, older as in 'early to mid '80s') --…   Read Story »

The Wrens need no introduction, but it has been three years since The Meadowlands, so we figured grieving fans might appreciate insight into how their favorite bird-themed, Jersey-born band otherwise…   Read Story »