The ongoing wave of folk-textured songwriting has produced more than its fair share of anaemic, dungaree-clad wannabes. Tom Williams & The Boat are not amongst them. Hailing from Tunbridge Wells, the band's music has plenty of acoustic whims but alongside this are shades of an art rock heritage. There are flecks of cult indie outsiders The Triffids on new album 'Teenage Blood', while the guitars have a crisp edge which recall elements of alt rock dons Sebadoh. More anti-folk (in the Jeffrey Lewis sense) than nu-folk, 'Teenage Blood' is due to be released on April 16th. ClashMusic have obtained an advance stream - listen to the album below and then check out a track by track guide from the band. - - - Teenage Blood This is the title track to the new album. A big country rock stomper, this track opens the album with a big ambient count in, testament to the space in which the album was recorded - a working brewery. This place served as the bands HQ in the center of the Kent country side. With a country fiddle and lilting harmonies, the track shows a more melodic & constructed approach to the songwriting on this album, as well as exhibiting newer influences, from Teenage Fanclub and Big Star, to The Band and Tom Petty. Teenage Blood was a song that came late in the process of writing the album, a project that amassed over 100 songs, with the band eventually recording 23 over a 12 day session in the Summer 2011. Teenage Blood was one of a handful of re-written or, 'Frankenstein-ed' songs that were some of the last to be recorded for the forthcoming second Tom Williams & The Boat album under the same name. Lyrically the song dwells on a sense of genetic inevitability to the woes of relationships broken and lost, and establishes a theme for the new album, the post relationship aftershock apocalypse! Too Young Another late comer to the party, Too Young was one of the last songs to be recorded for the new album. As straight forward a pop song as the band have penned to date, Too Young represents a pop sensibility and clarity, newly found on this album. Musically referencing anything from a tearful The Cure, to a Subterranean Bob Dylan, the song sees the band break free from previously exhausted folk references into a fresher sounding British guitar pop sound, more typical to the most recent material. Little Bit In Me The first song to be written for the new album, Little Bit In Me re-establishes the dark musical and lyrical content of previous Tom Williams & The Boat singles such as See My Evil and Get Older. The lyrics meander and stagger through a landscape of scarred and pitted characters, all ever present in a nightmarish gene pool that I yearn to escape from! With the violin referencing a Rolling Thunder era Dylan, and the guitar a Bends era Johnny Greenwood, Little Bit In Me is one of the more aggressive moments on the album, and is already a firm live favourite. Trouble With The Truth Trouble With The Truth was written early on in the writing of the new album. Lyrically it returns to characters from an earlier TW&TB; track Wouldn't Women Be Sweet, whilst establishing a new found darkness and righteous anger. Recorded completely live, it's one of two tracks on the album to retain the initial live vocal, and demonstrates nicely the sprawling warehouse barn space of the brewery in which the album was recorded. Lyrically deranged and menacing, the narrative centers round the escape of the protagonist from a basement leaving, 'the bodies and the bones'. The track charts the escape from a demented and ...

Get Buried!  is the new album from California indie pop duo The Creepy Crawlies . The band are really a duo who trade off male/female vocals.  That draws the obvious comparison to groups like Mates Of State and Jenny & Johnny .  And those aren't far off. Add in a '60s bubblegum pop sensibility to the garage and you get irresistibly sweet and playful nuggets like "Mollie the Maggot Part I". Vedict : Buy It

Click here for download Sounds like: Summer Camp, Jenny and Johnny, Pascal Pinon Song: Big Deal - Chair [download here ] What's so good? This is by no means a new track – it was circulating last fall (around the same time we posted Big Deal’s cover of Big Star’s “13″), but it was just pushed to the top of my inbox due to their tour announcement. The boy/girl band’s debut record Lights Out came out last year for UK fans and gets its official US release on January 24. Big Deal (Kacey Underwood and Alice Costelloe) are ...

Where will you be on December 31, 2011? If the answer is "in front of a television set with a bag of Funyans" you have a few options: • Dick Clark's New Year's Rockin' Eve will return with host Ryan Seacrest live from New York's Times Square (and Fergie live from somewhere in Los Angeles). The show features Lady Gaga, Nicki Minaj, Florence + the Machine, Blink-182, Justin Bieber, LMFAO, Pitbull, Will.i.am, OneRepublic, Taio Cruz, Gym Glass Heroes, the Band Perry, and Hot Chelle Rae. When/Where: 10 p.m. on ABC • Carson Daly will also be ...

Two single people, cut adrift from the world at Christmas time - how else do you expect them to fill their time? Locked away, Emmy The Great and Tim Wheeler fell for each other. Igniting a passion that could melt a snowdrift, the pair's romantic liaison has resulted in a new collaborative album. Recorded over the summer, 'This Is Christmas' is a fun, throwaway salute to the holiday period. The first joint project from the couple, Emmy The Great and Tim Wheeler are obviously having the time of their lives. Tracking down Emmy The Great, ClashMusic sent over a few ...

If you've yet to see Cults in concert, never fear: the New York duo is hitting the road again in support of their acclaimed debut. Besides a January detour in Australia, Indonesia, and Japan, they'll be spanning the US from the end of this year to April 2012. Catch the dates below--some of which include Jenny and Johnny (*) or Of Montreal (^). 12/31 – W. Hollywood, CA @ The Standard West * 01/13 – Philadelphia, PA @ Union Transfer 01/14 – Washington, DC @ The Black Cat 01/19 – New York, NY @ Webster Hall 01/28 – Brisbane, AU @ Laneway Festival 01/30 – Auckland ...

Creative couple Jenny and Johnny (aka Jenny Lewis and Jonathan Rice) have announced that they will performing a special New Year's Eve show at The Standard Hollywood to ring in 2012.

Bringing you magical, musical treats from beyond the wizard’s sleeve! Jenny and Johnny – Big Wave Psychic Babble – Let Me Change Outerwaves – Big Cat Xui Xui – Dear God I Hate Myself Warpaint – Bees Terrible Truths – Don Juan Weird Dreams – Joan Damien Jurado – Nothing Is the News Hit the [...]

1. “Blues From a Gun” by The Jesus & Mary Chain 2. “Barrel of a Gun” by Guster 3. “Sword” by Rilo Kiley 4. “Gold Guns Girls” by Metric 5. “Switchblade” by Jenny and Johnny 6. “We Throw Parties, You … Continue reading →

Jenny Lewis, who recently had a cameo on Gossip Girl, has cancelled her upcoming West Coast tour. The Rilo Kiley/Jenny and Johnny songstress was due to play some solo dates this month.

As reported, last night, Jenny and Johnny stopped by the season 5 premiere of Gossip Girl. We have the clip.

Jenny Lewis and Jonathan Rice—who perform together as Jenny and Johnny—will appear on tonight’s season premiere of Gossip Girl. In addition to playing themselves on screen, the duo’s tune “My Pet Snakes” will be featured on the soundtrack.

Regresa Galaxy fm ® , como todos los viernes en el 94.7 en la frecuencia modulada de tu radio aquí en Los Mochis , con el único e incomparable estilo Friday Night , donde Zael estará en control con la mejor música de la galaxia ... Estrenamos el playlist número 135 de Silent Roy , con setenta canciones nuevas jamás programadas por las emisoras convencionales; recuerda sintonizarnos desde las 8:25 de la noche ... Playlist 135 Galaxy 94.7 fm ® 26/27 agosto 2011 www.myspace.com/galaxy_fm www.twitter.com/galaxy_fm galaxyfm@gmail.com ► 1. A Band Called Quinn - Wolf Cries Boy 2. Airship ...

We’re previewing Lollapalooza’s best + brightest! Get the scoop here ! Artist : Wye Oak Lollapalooza Set: Friday, August 5th @ 12:15 PM at Sony Proof: This live video of “Civilian”, the title track from the new album which is equally impressive live and acoustic as it is recorded I thought I’d be happy just seeing half of Wye Oak’s set at Sasquatch this year. I wanted to catch some of Jenny and Johnny’s set, and though I love Wye Oak’s albums, I figured they would be sort of a basic festival act- the kind in which ...

We’re previewing Lollapalooza’s best + brightest! Get the scoop here ! Artist : Wye Oak Lollapalooza Set: Friday, August 5th @ 12:15 PM at Sony Proof: This live video of “Civilian”, the title track from the new album which is equally impressive live and acoustic as it is recorded I thought I’d be happy just seeing half of Wye Oak’s set at Sasquatch this year. I wanted to catch some of Jenny and Johnny’s set, and though I love Wye Oak’s albums, I figured they would be sort of a basic festival act- the kind in which ...