Articles tagged with indie rock

Dark End of the Street

Cara Nash — Sun, 28 Dec 2008 17:40:34 +0000

Released on vinyl and for download, Dark End of the Street comprises six tracks which did not make it on to Jukebox, an album of covers released by Chan Marshall earlier this year, which was largely inspired by the success of 2000’s The Covers Record. Much has occurred in Marshall’s life between the release of those two records, both personally and artistically speaking.

This Is It And I Am It And You Are It And So Is That And He Is It And She Is It And It Is It And That Is That

Sean Caldwell — Wed, 29 Oct 2008 10:55:58 +0000

Transformer, the first single from Marnie Stern’s latest album, graced my ears maybe a month or so ago. It rang with the familiar air of Stern’s first album, In Advance Of The Broken Arm, her manically quick fingers running up and down those bruised frets with inexhaustible speed and precision. Zach Hill, sitting behind his abused drum kit, rolls, flips and barrels through…whatever. But, listening to the song, there’s an excitable joy that really turns that frown upside down, Stern’s unwavering glow pervading every availa

Driving out of Focus

Matt Montgomery — Sat, 26 Jul 2008 17:30:51 +0000

These Swiss indie rockers might be a few years late for the party: Hints of At the Drive-In pepper Commodor's debut, Driving out of Focus, but throw into the equation a vintage synthesizer or two, and a unique entity forms.

ExitingARM

Jeff Rovinelli — Wed, 04 Jun 2008 19:33:38 +0000

Over the course of their last two albums – 2003’s drifting yet focused A New White and 2006’s furiously frantic For Hero: For Fool – the Anticon-affiliated sextet Subtle crafted a surreal narrative of fictional rapper Hour Hero Yes. The first took naval-gazing into a beautifully abstracted place, constructing a free-flowing associative musical and lyrical narrative that remained buoyant and effortlessly engaging while remaining locked within its own self-constructed world.