Death Cab for Cutie

The new Death Cab for Cutie album Narrow Stairs doesn’t come out until May 13 (tour schedule). You can watch the (fairly uninspiring) video for the album’s first single I Will Posses Your Heart.
But the real news is the Death Cab Daytrotter Session that features downloadable or streamable mp3s of both old and new songs. [...]

Record Store Day

Record Store Day is Saturday!!!

Find your local brick-and-mortar purveyor of shiny silver (and sometimes hefty black) discs-o-music in this list to determine if there is any performing, DJing, or autographing going on near you.
Examples include a Metallica meet-and-greet at Berkeley’s Rasputin Music, Collections Of Colonies Of Bees performing with many other acts at Milwaulkee’s Atomic [...]

Kurt Cobain: About A Son

I’ve been geeking out on the soundtrack for Kurt Cobain: About a Son. I can’t speak to the way the songs articulate with the film, because I haven’t seen it, but I have gotten a lot of enjoyment from listening to and thinking about the artists that influenced KC.
Buy the About a Son CD or [...]

Science for Girls

Science for Girls rolled out an album last week (tip from Beat Lawrence). I’ve sunk my hooks into the mellow song Northern Lights and can’t keep from looping it, with its better-than-David-Gray vocals, no matter my mood. The rest of the songs are all over the map, so I have no strong drive to recommend [...]