There's very little about Heavy Cream's sophomore album Super Treatment that doesn't shake you like a kick to the clavicle. The Ty Segall produced album barrels out of your speakers like a sweat soaked tsunami and doesn't let up the pace once over its scant 26 minutes. Heirs apparent to the Runaways' toughened leather licks and rolled in cat-scratched wails that bring to mind fellow Nashville alums Be Your Own Pet's impetuous howl; Super Treatmemt tears doors down like a women's prison riot in 104 degree heat. The blink and its over pace would ...

With close to 1,000 bands playing the couple hundred official and unofficial SXSW showcases, there’s a certain amount of prep work that needs to be done before the festivities commence. The SXSW web site will lay out the schedule for the official shows and resources like the Austin Chronicle and Showlist Austin are invaluable for the unofficial day parties. Given the number of savvy concert-goers here for the week, it would be foolhardy to attempt an anal-retentive plan for all four days (which, with Tuesday’s official slate, has crept to a fifth night) and even dumber to ...

Time off from being one-half of the Fiery Furnaces (with the other half being her brother Matthew) has been treating Eleanor Friedberger quite well. She’s on tour with a backing band featuring Matt Asti (MGMT), Ahmed Gallab (Yeasayer, Caribou) and John Eatherly (Be Your Own Pet, Turbo Fruits), and she’ll also personally be joining Carrie [...]

Fiery Furnaces' Eleanor Friedberger released her first solo album, Last Summer, this past July to glowing reviews. It featured an all-star cast of Matt Asti (MGMT), Ahmed Gallab (touring member of Yeasayer & Caribou), and John Eatherly (Be Your Own Pet & Turbo Fruits, as well as many excellent songs -- like "Heaven". She released the video for that one in particular today

Orchestra of Spheres are, by the sounds of things, a jovial, experimental band. Trying to describe their sound is difficult -- similar artists that come to mind are Prince Rama, tUnE-yArDs, M.I.A., Sleigh Bells and Be Your Own Pet. If that sounds like a crazy mix then don’t worry; it all culminates to result in the exciting, powerful force that is their debut, Nonagonic Now. Read more..

Wild Flag with Eleanor Friedberger at The Paradise, Boston on Friday, October 14, 2011 There was a certain irony to the fact that the act booked to play the same club the following night as Wild Flag was The Indigo Girls, and I know that at least two people of the assembled LGBT contingency was going to both shows (the women in front of me were looking to buy tickets at the box office). Before the 'Lilith' term gets tossed about, just because there's a lack of Y chromosomes doesn't mean that an all-female ensemble is going to ...

Jake and Jamin Orrall, better known as JEFF the Brotherhood, have come a long way since the time when they were both better known as ex-members of Be Your Own Pet. The group’s relentless touring has won them countless fans, and that hard work paid off last night with an appearance on Jimmy Fallon’s show to play a track from the current We Are the Champions . “Hello America,” says Jake at the start of the track, before they launch into the stodgy post-Weezer riffage of “Diamond Way” with typical aplomb. They even invited a buddy onstage to eat ...

Sleeper Agent Celabrasion Mom + Pop Music [2011] Fire Note Says: Great debut from the youthful Sleeper Agent! Album Review: The youthful vigor found on Sleeper Agent's debut, Celabrasion, is absolutely infectious as their brand of indie rock is loud, fun and extremely catchy. What is truly interesting with this release is that the Bowling Green, KY band just formed last year and their oldest member of the young adult sextet is 26 years old. The album features the strong lead female vocals of Alex "Kidd" Kandel who shares the spotlight on lead and verse inter-changes with songwriter/guitarist Tony ...

It's October 1st and I get to listen to 31 days of Halloween music! This is my favorite season, my favorite month, and my favorite holiday. You get to listen to funky music ranging from surfer rock to psychobilly to 50s pop to heavy metal to the just plain weird. This super mix includes all of the standards and some inspired new additions to the canon of Halloween music. The mix is currently at 169 songs but it's always growing. So if I missed your favorite, leave a message in the comments and it'll get added. For ...

Let's get this out of the way first off: prog-pop sibling duo The Fiery Furnaces are still a band and Eleanor Friedberger 's debut solo album, Last Summer , is simply an outlet for the singer-songwriter's passion for '70s-influenced rock,  pop, and fashion. Hey, if her brother can do it multiple times in one year, she's afforded the right, too. Despite her on - and - on again relationship with the fashion world, being in a well-regarded band for more than ten years, and dating Franz Ferdinand 's Alex Kapranos for a spell, Ms. Friedberger isn't quite a household ...

JEFF The Brotherhood We Are The Champions Infinity Cat Recordings [2011] Fire Note Review: Who needs a bass player as the duo JEFF The Brotherhood offer a vital explosion of rock n roll on their sophomore outing We Are The Champions . Album Review: Nashville's JEFF The Brotherhood consist of brothers Jake and Jamin Orrall covering vocals, guitar and drums. It is a rather simple garage rock setup that pushes straight ahead, as their songs are high energy, somewhat fuzzy and filled with little surprises around every corner. Some of these surprises hit you right a way like on album ...

Requested by so close i can taste it • Compiled by jorge These all pretty much sum up summer for me, I hope they do it for you too. 01. Jay Reatard - "It Ain't Gonna Save Me" (Watch Me Fall) 02. Weezer - "Mykel and Carli" (Dusty Gems and Raw Nuggets) 03. Pavement - "Box Elder" (Westing (By Musket and Sextant)) 04. Wavves - "Wavves" (Wavvves) 05. Japandroids - "Younger Us" (Younger Us 7") 06. Girls - "Summertime" (Album) 07. Christmas Island - "Blackout Summer" (Blackout Summer) 08. Box Elder - "Hole in My Head" (Hole in My Head 7") 09. Jacuzzi Boys - "Dock" (No Seasons) 10 ...

Here is our super excellent summer playlist for you all to wrap your ears around, especially for the 405. Co-written and co-produced by all three of us Fever Fevers; sensitive pussies should not listen to this awesome set of ditties. Sorry, no space for Sean Paul feat. Blu Cantrell... Tracklisting Click here to listen to the playlist Nirvana – 'Tourette's' (Live Version - Reading, England) Batwings Catwings – 'Endless Summer' Be Your Own Pet – 'Adventure' Divorce – 'Amuse Bouche' The Mars Volta – 'Ouroborous' Bronto Skylift – 'Wolf' Micachu & The Shapes and the London Sinfonietta – 'Low Dogg' Austra – 'Beat And The Pulse' Cults – 'Abducted' Sea ...

Those Dancing Days are still really, really cute. It’s an inescapable truth. But peer past said tender appearances, and you’ll also discover a wealth of musical and lyrical expertise, rougher than you might imagine, and ready to spit you out. This Swedish all-girl troupe’s members may well have only just turned the corner into their third decades, but on this, their second album (the follow-up to 2008’s overlooked In Our Space Hero Suits), blimey, have they matured. Delve into this LP at any level and I guarantee you’ll find yourself helpless to resist the urge ...

mp3: SWTHRT – “Boys With Problems” SWTHRT is the new project from Karl Kuehne, the most prolific indie  kid busting out of Southport, NC, a small resort town on the Carolina coast. In-the-know lofi punk fans know him as the drummer for Museum Mouth, their spunky surf-rock recalls Be Your Own Pet or Cloud Nothings. [...]