Music

The workweek is almost over. To celebrate, the gods have provided some local and national musical talent tonight to get you ready for the weekend…

Women​ In this week’s paper, Daniel Hopkins caught up with Women’s Patrick Flegel to talk about the band’s fast ascent and its continued progression–something, Hopkins learns, that’s been spurred along by the band’s attempts to write songs as it plays upwards of 200 shows a year. Which is fine by…

​ Nothing says British punk rock like a tattered Union Jack, right?…

​In this week’s print edition, Darryl Smyers talks up tomorrow night’s show at The Loft from The Vaselines, who, after bearing an influence over Nirvana’s Kurt Cobain in the early ’90s, took a 17-year break after their 1992 compilation release, All the Stuff and More…, before Sub Pop released another…

It’s about damn time an indie pop track reached the top of the charts. I was getting kind of tired of throwing a few of my favorite pop artists under the bus for their bad efforts… Leave it to an contradictory genre like indie pop to grind my gears again…

Now there’s more people for Lil Wil to be pissed off with: The University of Wisconsin. By spoofing Cali Swag District’s “Teach Me How to Dougie” and turning it into a song about its mascot, Bucky the Badger, called “Teach Me How to Bucky” (see above), Wisonsin student rap troupe…

One could argue that North Texas’ fingerprints were all over last weekend’s ninth annual Austin City Limits Music Festival. Pretty much no one from outside of the region would agree with you, but, hey, you could argue it. It wouldn’t be completely unfounded, either. Five acts with North Texas ties…

With 11 full-length studio albums under his belt, and too many guest appearances to count over the last 20 years, it is somewhat ironic that a passing phrase of veneration made by Lil Wayne in a jailhouse interview back in July is what finally has the mainstream hip-hop community taking…

For grunge junkies and Nirvana biographers, Scotland’s The Vaselines are just another rock ‘n’ roll footnote, another band Kurt Cobain listened to as a (disturbed) youth and whom he’d later cover during his relatively quick rise and fall. And there are probably still a few tortured, unknowing souls who think…

Hipster types have unfairly maligned the Deftones for their supposed role in helping foment the stain that was nu metal. But, hey, can the group help it if so many Korn imitators really liked their stuff? The band’s 2000 watershed crossover album, White Pony, still holds up as a testament…

Before 2004, the best-known export of Selkirk, Scotland, was a dry fruitcake called “bannock,” which, according to Wikipedia, is “made from wheat flour and containing a very large quantity of raisins.” It’s for this reason, among myriad others, that we’re incredibly pleased to be acquainted with Frightened Rabbit, an angular…

If Gorillaz ever took themselves completely seriously, would it spell doom for their infectious virtual-band whimsy, or make for some iconic, classic postmodernism? Originally just a playful side project for Blur frontman Damon Albarn, the animated quartet captured creative lightning in a bottle with the hip-hop-infused synth pop of 2001’s…

The phrase “old friends” is rarely synonymous with the phrase “new band,” but Canadian indie-rock act Women are an exception to the rule. Its members have been big players in Calgary’s art-rock scene for years and have been close friends for even longer. And with the strength of their critically…

Talking to Eric Earley, leader and founding member of Portland’s Blitzen Trapper, can be something of a disheartening experience. Earley’s not an unfriendly guy at all—quite the opposite in fact. The problem is his soft-spoken nature. He might be the first frontman in history who has trouble speaking up. “We…

The idea for most non-musicians of being on stage, fronting a very talented band and belting out your favorite songs in front of a cheering crowd is something so far from possible that it only exists in the world of self-indulgent fantasy. Up until recently, we only had talent shows…

Suuns hail from Montreal, but the starched, pensive sound the quartet showcases on debut EP Zeroes QC—pinched synthesizers, metronomic drumbeats, electronic textures, gristly yet mannered guitar pyrotechnics—feels distinctly cosmopolitan, an unlikely composite of influences that succeeds despite its obviousness. Think Radiohead cross-pollinated with Walking With Thee-era Clinic and vintage Krautrock…