Visit Indie Shuffle to download. Sounds like: Polyphonic Spree, Sufjan Stevens, The New Pornographers Song: Vincent">St. Vincent - Krokodil [download here ] What's so good? Vincent">St. Vincent’s seemingly endless tour wound back through Chicago this past Friday, expanding from the smaller Metro to the hallowed halls of the Vic Theatre. Annie Clark presented a tightly packed set to the sold-out crowd, playing what have now become standards off of her first two albums, 2007′s Marry Me , and 2009′s Actor , though she still relied heavily on her most recent masterpiece, 2011′s Strange Mercy . Opening with the ...

I was going to be all cool and feature a non-repeat artist but honestly I can’t get this album out of my head lately. In fact, I’ve been thinking over  Strange Mercy almost everyday since I saw Vincent">St. Vincent’s amazing show at Coachella. She came on right after Laura Marling and for some reason their crowds didn’t have a terrible amount of overlap so I was able to sneak right up to front and right (not center haha) and the show was simply amazing. Astounding! Beyond any words English or otherwise haha Instead of re-hashing ...

In his brilliant, if bitter book ‘Bad Vibes’, Luke Haines traces the birth of what went on to be know as Britpop to the Select magazine of April 1993, the one with Brett Anderson of Suede on the cover striking a coquettish pose against the back drop of a union jack. The text of the ‘Yanks Go Home’ article was about combating the influx of American grunge music by supporting home grown bands that specialised in ‘Wit, glamour and irony’. Almost exactly a year later, notes Haines, Kurt Cobain killed himself and with him the domination of America music. If ...

Death thrashers Repulsive Aggression have debuted the title track from their upcoming album ?Conflagration.? Recorded in March 2012 at the Strand Studio in Oslo, the ten-track album will feature a guest appearance by Sarkom and So Much For Nothing frontman Erik Unsgaard. ?Conflagration,? which will be the band?s first full-length album, is set f... Read More/Discuss on Metal Underground.com

In honour of their first visit to the Apple Isle, Melbourne’s Dick Diver have released a new video. Made by Amy Hill (School of Radiant Living, Mongrel">Constant Mongrel), the clip for ‘Keno’ features slo-mo Sea-Doo action and footage of the band on the beach. The track hails from one of last year’s best records New Start Again , which came in at #3 in our Critics Poll . We described it as creating "a strand of Australiana that does away with Paul Hogan, Noiseworks and the cultural cringe". The band will make their Tassie debut at Hobart’s Brisbane ...

I'm obsessed with year end lists.  It's always exciting to sit down at the end of the year and rank your favorite records, share with your friends/readers, and also see what others deemed the best of the year.  One problem always arises: give it a few months into the new year and three-four records for the past year will pop up and make you wish you had given them proper due.  I've decided to put an end to this "list regret" and will be doing an annual piece called "I've Made A Huge Mistake" where ...

If only every city had a Hopscotch. Raleigh, NC’s big-big music festival has gotten even bigger this year, with the addition of historical (and possibly haunted!!!) sounding venues like the Long View Center, Memorial Auditorium and the Contemporary Art Museum to its 15 venues strong festival map. There are 175 artists playing this thing, people, with everyone from the likes of Class Actress and Baroness to Liars and Wagner">Mirel Wagner. This year is only Hopscotch’s third go-around, and already they’ve got swell headliners like Built to Spill, The Roots, and The Jesus and Mary Chain keyed ...

Filed under: News , News Today, Oh Boy! Shirlaine Forrest, WireImage The best Thom Yorke dancing_thumbnail.GIF you'll see today. [ Hipster Runoff , via @Jennylsq ] The Black Lips brought Notorious B.I.G. back from the dead at Coachella, but his performance was a little stiff. [ Popdust ] Speaking of Biggie, there's a photo of him in this collection of vintage shots that is just plain amazing. [ The Chive ] Cat Power revealed the name of her new album, and it's not Sorry This Took Forever . [ Consequence of Sound ] Did The Band say, "Take a load off, Annie" or "Fanny"? CNN ...

A Place to Bury Strangers are currently ruining eardrums across Europe, but come this June, they’ve got something special lined up for West Coast fans: FREE KITTENS!!!! Nah, just kidding. It’s a tour. Obviously it’s a tour. It says so in the headline, WHO AM I KIDDING. The New York loudsters make their triumphant return to the United States with Suicide Squeeze signees This Will Destroy You. You know how interval training — when you alternate sprinting with walking or whatever — is supposed to be all good for your heart and stuff? Well, consider this tour interval training ...

Brooklyn Vegan : HOPSCOTCH 2012 LINEUP Airstrip (Carrboro, N.C.) Altar of Plagues (Cork, Ireland) Altos (Milwaukee, Wis.) Alvarius B. (Seattle, Wash.) Amen Dunes (Brooklyn, N.Y.) Arnold Dreyblatt and Megafaun (Berlin, Germany / Durham, N.C.) Balam Acab (Mechanicsburg, P.A.) Baroness (Savannah, Ga.) Beat Report (Chapel Hill, N.C.) Big Troubles (Ridgewood, N.J.) Bill Orcutt (San Francisco, Calif.) Ritmo">Bio Ritmo (Richmond, Va.) BIrds of Avalon (Raleigh, N.C.) Black Skies (Carrboro, N.C.) Boy Friend (Austin, Texas) Built to Spill (Boise, I.D.) Burglar Fucker (Winston-Salem, N.C.) Calico Haunts (Durham, N.C.) Cantwell, Gomez & Jordan (Durham, N ...

Don’t let the Reggae vibes, the long hair or the laid-back demeanor fool you. When it comes to music Below The Bassline is serious about its business. After almost 5 years of staying mostly below the radar, the quartet of McKinley Devilbiss, Andrew “Panda” McDermott, Sam Goodwin and Wade McMillian are ready to make a run at emerging from the underground with hopes of taking their blend of harmonious, guitar-driven Reggae Rock to new heights. “We feel like we’re at a good point with some of the things we’ve done recently to really begin pushing this and ...

For all the shit I talked/tweeted all weekend, Coachella was surprisingly diverse, less crowded and full of enthusiastic music-as-an-interest festival goers, armed with everything they would need for the weekend from hallucinogens and booze in water bottles to spirithoods (for warmth and spirit) to elaborate camp set ups, glowstick gloves and everything in between. But alas, everyone was at the fairest desert ball of them all for the one-of-a-kind music experiences that would take place over the next three days...and the installation art. Just kidding, no one cares about the art. Check out the must see performances, from ...

We'll cut to the chase. You've seen us fawn over Minneapolis metalgaze trio Dreamless. But do you want to actually see them live?If you happen to live in the Twin Cities, make sure to clear your plans for May 12. Dreamless have scheduled a show at Hell's Kitchen (80 S. 9th St., Minneapolis) - "our first true live performance," as guitarist, bassist, and vocalist Cory Strand puts it. The band's

Two of the trio were from Glasgow....that makes them a Scottish act as far as I'm concerned. From wiki:- Bronski Beat formed in 1983 when Somerville, Steinbachek and Bronski shared a three-bedroom flat in Lancaster House in Brixton, southwest London. Bronski Beat signed a recording contract with London Records in 1984 after doing only nine live gigs. The band's debut single, "Smalltown Boy", the tale of a boy who was cast away by his family for being homosexual, was a hit, peaking at #3 in the UK Singles Chart. The single was accompanied by a promotional video ...

Read the last edition of Nordic Adventures here . Here we go again…It's time for the March edition of our Nordic Adventures feature and as per usual there have been no shortage of excellent Nordic music over the past month. Right after finishing this column the news made its way across the internet that the Swedish duo Air France has broken up. Despite having released only two EPs and a few individual tracks online the duo are considered among the chief acts of the Scandinavian music scene since the mid-'00s – and rightfully so. Last August they released 'It ...