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Thom Behrens | Monday, October 27, 2014
Few bands in our lifetime have been able to hold us in the same kind of abusive relationship with their attitude, sound and emotion, so abusive to the listener but so essential to our world experience that we can’t imagine our world without them after that pivotal first listen. When we were youngsters, we had My Chemical
Thom Behrens | Tuesday, September 30, 2014
It’s been 21 long months since the release of Foxygen’s debut full-length album, “We Are the 21st Century Ambassadors of Peace and Magic.” The album, released in January 2013, brought the California-based band under the spotlight of many an indie rock listener — the album was dressed to impress from top to bottom with the band’s strange
Thom Behrens | Wednesday, September 24, 2014
Listen: this album is groundbreaking. Milo sings an ode to feeling happy, hopeless and dissatisfied. He captures just how you feel on Sundays when you wake up after noon and realize everything you did and everything you still have to do. But his contemplations are not complaining, nor are they an analysis or a proof.
Thom Behrens | Tuesday, September 16, 2014
Where were you when Fall Out Boy came off hiatus? I was in my ever-boring and seldom-attended freshman engineering lecture, staring at my news feed, and within five minutes of refreshing the home page and seeing the update that Pete Wentz, Patrick Stump, Andy Hurley and Joe Trohman had not only reunited, but were releasing an
Thom Behrens | Thursday, September 4, 2014
Brighton rock duo Royal Blood released their pseudonymous debut album Aug. 25 through Warner Bros. records. The album peaked at the No. 1 spot on charts in both Britain and Ireland. Before the album’s release, the band released four singles off of the album. Royal Blood consists of Mike Kerr and Ben Thatcher — and the duo starts
Thom Behrens | Tuesday, August 26, 2014
The latest release from Swedish electronic band Little Dragon, “Nabuma Rubberband,” was released earlier May 9. It is the band’s fourth studio album and its first to be released through new label Because Music (the label works with other electronic acts such as Moby, Breakbot and Justice). Previously, the band worked with Peacefrog Records. Ironically, where the
Thom Behrens | Tuesday, April 29, 2014
4/5 Shamrocks Jack White’s lead single and title track off of his forthcoming album, “Lazarreto,” was released April 19, National Record Store Day. It has gained notoriety as the “world’s fastest record” — it was recorded In White’s Third Man studio the morning of the 19th on vinyl masters, driven immediately to production at United
Thom Behrens | Thursday, April 24, 2014
Once called “the Kurt Vonnegut of Rock” by Rolling Stone Magazine, lead singer, songwriter and front man for the band Eels Mark Oliver Everett — known more commonly as MOE and even more commonly as E — has been delivering music racked with sardonic hope, cynical humanism, wit and dry humor to the indie rock
Thom Behrens | Thursday, April 3, 2014
Whether playing from under highway overpasses or with self-organized groups of teenagers in literal yurts found hidden in Midwestern cornfields, Saintseneca’s tour schedule is almost as unique as their rhythmically driven take on the sweep of folk music that has taken the mainstream in the wake of Mumford & Sons. Saintseneca’s sophomore album, “Dark Arc,”
Thom Behrens | Monday, March 17, 2014
Last year, R&B singer, recording artist and hip-hop, electro and pop producer Pharrell came back into the spotlight with guest appearances on the tracks “Lose Yourself to Dance” and “Get Lucky” on Daft Punk’s album “Random Access Memories.” While his vocal performance relied completely on an underwhelming use of his charming falsetto, he undoubtedly deserves