The style of music known as doo-wop had at least two heydays: One in the 1950s and '60s, when the music was first recorded, and again during a revival in the '70s, thanks in part to nostalgic movies such as American Graffiti and Grease . But doo-wop is in a slump again, and one of its beacons is about to close its doors after decades in business.

You Me At Six recently soundchecked “Little Death” in Jakarta. Check out the performance below by clicking “Read More!”

Philly-based folk-pop singer/songwriter Carsie Blanton just released her new album Idiot Heart  this week on her Bandcamp page using the "pay what you want" pricing model.  The album produced by Oliver Wood of The Wood Brothers is filled to the brim with Carsie's coy and confident vocals and blended with her New Orleans jazz-inflected classic pop stylings, it is worth every penny that you chose to pay.  The stand out title track, "Idiot Heart" is a vintage organ-drenched country-leaning send-up.  And the dark and sultry, "Little Death" features a contrastingly bright, swinging melody and a male vocal counterpart ...

by Polly Bresnick Etta James, who passed away last week, could not only sing with searing soul that simultaneously strikes fear and sorrow and strength into the hearts of anyone who hears her voice, but she also bridged the gap between R&B; and Rock & Roll back when people were still impressed by that kind of feat, way back when a band of light-skinned black girls was called the "Creolettes," way back when the song title "Roll With Me Henry" was so suggestive for a fourteen-year-old girl to sing, that the title was changed for the radio. Her songs have helped me muscle through serious heartsickness, and her signature wolf/owl howl/hoot grace notes give me chills even though I know each one by heart. I won't go into her haunting and solemn vocal opening to a performance of "Something's Got a Hold On Me" in 1966 on a television show called The !!!! Beat . And don't even get me started about all her songs about being heartbroken at a wedding and desperately wishing to speak now instead of forever holding her peace. She was 73 years old, mentally and physically ill, but her death was a strange thing in my mind. Each time I listen to her soul-wringing, tear-salted mournfully lonesome rants it sounds a bit like the intimate sound of someone dying a little death, having a petit mort , an orgasm or paroxysm or all of the above. Her songs so convincingly chronicle her experience of emotional murder by loves who left her — got married or cheated or lied or didn't listen or didn't trust her or just didn't love her back — that in my mind, she died and revived enough times to achieve immortal status. This isn't to say that I didn't feel sad to learn she'd died. I did, a nagging bit of sad, like a pebble in my boot. I hadn't been following her later career very closely. I only knew she'd recently released an album because my father asked for it for his birthday. What she did with her voice and her soul when it was still so street, so raw and ambitious and broad, like her life actually depended on getting the pain out — "W.O.M.A.N.," "I'd Rather Go Blind," "All Could Do Was Cry," "Stop the Wedding," "Something's Got a Hold on Me" — these are the songs that go and put a hurtin' on me. But, when Etta died, a friend pointed out to me a late-career recording of her cover of Alice Cooper's "Only Women Bleed." Admittedly, it caught my ear initially for what I thought to be it's absurdity. But then it lingered. Maybe I'm being an overly sensitive post-post-feminist, but I hear an interesting note of old-fashioned chauvinism in the opening lines of this track: "Man's got his woman / to take his seed, he's got the power / she's got the need." It quickly becomes clear, though, who's side this song is on. Etta's version is a pained and sweating, R&B;/gospel, unsentimental sermon/anthem for abused women, while Alice Cooper's (especially next to Etta's) sounds more like a soundtrack for a domestic violence PSA or a commercial for a charity to help battered women in inner city Detroit. Etta owns the lower register of this song with rumbling force that is bigger and louder ...

From The Cedar Box Janurary 2012 Allysen Callery - Winter Island Written by Marissa Nadler In the spirit of winter, I’d like to write about one of most unique songwriters that I know, and her new album Winter Island . It’s a coincidence that both musicians showcased thus far in From The Cedar Box have been from Rhode Island. Next month, we will be leaving the Ocean State, but Winter Island is a record that must be heard before the crocuses poke their heads up for the springtime.  Winter Island is a record that could proudly sit tall next to ...

It looks like You Me At Six will be playing this summer’s Vans Warped Tour. A new Warped lineup announcement is coming today, so they could be announced within the next few hours. Check out the band’s set list on their current co-headlining tour with The Swellers below by clicking “Read More.” Loverboy Little Death Safer To Hate Her Liquid Confidence The Consequence Jaws on the Floor No One Does It Better Fireworks Stay With Me Bite My Tongue Underdog

You Me At Six's set list on their current co-headline tour with The Swellers is as follows: Loverboy Little Death Safer To Hate Her Liquid Confidence The Consequence Jaws on the Floor No One Does It Better Fireworks Stay With Me Bite My Tongue Underdog

You Me At Six are currently co-headlining a US tour with The Swellers. You can view their set list below by clicking “Read More.” Loverboy Little Death Safer To Hate Her Liquid Confidence The Consequence Jaws on the Floor No One Does It Better Fireworks Stay With Me Bite My Tongue Underdog

So sometimes you love a track but not a whole album or it's on an EP or single or maybe you love one track even more than any of the others on a downright amazing LP and want to give it a special mention. Thats what this little piece is about. We just wanted to highlight some of our favourite individual tracks of 2011. Here are the top 5. New Look - Nap On The Bow OMG words cannot describe this dreamy electronic ejaculate. Musical perfection, just about. A superb little death and worthy contender for song of the year ...

Fans have been loving the chance to see their favorite band’s 10Of’11 End Of The Year Lists, and today we’re stoked to bring you lists from four bands on Panic Records. Casting Curses, Late Nite Wars, Pentimento, and All Teeth were kind enough to take part in the feature for PropertyOfZack. Check them out below and make sure to check back every day for more! From Brian Kraus: Owen - Ghost Town - The Armoire Polar Bear Club - Clash Battle Guilt Pride - Bottled Wind Touche Amore - Parting The Sea Between Brightness And Me - The Great Repetition  Twitching Tongues - Sleep ...

Earlier this year the nation looked on in disbelief as a peaceful protest turned into three nights of, in the most part, mindless vandalism and criminality. Hundreds were left homeless and long-standing businesses burned to the ground. One torching stood out amongst the Indie community more than any other - the Sony DADC warehouse in Enfield. At first you’d be forgiven for thinking “ah its Sony, they’re minted," soon enough as the events unfolded on the fastest news service the internet has to offer (Twitter) it became clear that the warehouse was also the main distribution hub for PIAS ...

If you've not got 'Little Death' already you are in luck!

You Me At Six will release their new album, Sinners Never Sleep , in North America on January 24th. The effort is expected to see guest appearances from Bring Me The Horizon vocalist Oli Sykes and Parkway Drive's Winston McCall . A track called "Little Death" is available for download on Bandcamp .

Recently You Me At Six joined The Noise Tour with Mayday Parade, We Are The In Crowd, and Tomorrow">There For Tomorrow.  check out their set list they’re playing on the tour The Consequence Safer To Hate Her Loverboy Little Death Liquid Confidence Stay With Me Underdog

You Me At Six just joined The Noise Tour with Mayday Parade, We Are The In Crowd, and Tomorrow">There For Tomorrow. You can check out their set list for the tour below by clicking “Read More”. The Consequence Safer To Hate Her Loverboy Little Death Liquid Confidence Stay With Me Underdog