A great bill rolls through Dallas on Sunday, June 24, at Club Dada, featuring former... Read more »

by Bill Pearis Hazy Montreal rockers No Joy are hitting the road and crushing eardrum, joining Lower Dens on their upcoming summer tour that hits NYC on July 19 at Bowery Ballroom. Tickets for that show are still available and...

Lower Dens logró condensar perfectamente sentimientos complicados y en ocasiones abrumadores, que acompañados de una musicalización sencilla, pero bien ejecutada.

Lower Dens - Nootropics Record Label - Ribbon Music Release Date - May 1st, 2012 Some years ago, when Silver Jews frontman Dave Berman called Radiohead " gray ," it's hard to think that he didn't have another band and another album in mind.   Nootropics , the second release from Jana Hunter fronted Lower Dens, slow-churns its way through your speakers like a psychedelic sci-fi iceberg.  It is, unabashedly, gray. The title originates from smart drugs (natural or otherwise) which improve brain function.  While this album doesn't appear (from quite a few listens) to be the indie equivalent of Baby Mozart, what makes ...

Japandroids  and  Chromatics  have been added to  Pitchfork Music Festival 2012 , which returns to Chicago's Union Park July 13-15. They join a lineup that already includes  Beach House ,  Vampire Weekend ,  Feist ,  Godspeed You! Black Emperor ,  Hot Chip ,  Sleigh Bells ,  Dirty Projectors ,  Flying Lotus ,  AraabMUZIK ,  A$AP Rocky  and many, many, many more. Japandroids will perform on Friday, July 13, while Chromatics will perform on Saturday, July 14. In case you missed it, three-day passes for the festival have sold out. Thanks to everybody who purchased!  Individual day tickets  are on sale now right  here , but hurry, because they're ...

*Kurt Vile & The Violators* (http://www.kurtvile.com) will headline the London Kentish Town Forum on December 6th in the UK. This will be their biggest headline show to date and will be supported by *Lower Dens* (http://lowerdens.com) and *Dark Dark Dark* (http://www.darkdarkdark.com). Tickets are...

Kurt Vile is set to bring The Violators over to the UK this December for his biggest headline show to date. Vile and his band will headline The Forum in Kentish Town on December 6th, and will be joined by Lower Dens and Dark Dark Dark , making it a pretty awesome show and a great way to warm-up for their appearance at T he National-curated All Tomorrow's Parties (December 7th-9th). Tickets are on sale now from atpfestival.com .

"you can't help the things you choose, i pictured you singing the silver jews" - allo darlin' - because it all comes back to david berman, doesn't it. and why not? he's retired from music but he's still around. check out his ramblings and poetic idioms on mentholmountains . here's some modern kraut, some old psych (including an Adelaide band from the 60's called Inside Turning Out), some indie shuffle, Flying Nun NZ goodness, and the usual blips and whistles.  i'm full of cold so no more words, just music. press play and let the ears ...

Origami Vinyl :: Top 10 Records (5/11-5/17) 1 – Beach House – Bloom 2 – Best Coast – The Only Place 3 – Lower Dens – Nootropics 4 – Ty Segall & White Fence – Hair 5 – Santigold – Master of My Make Believe 6 – Sparklehorse – Dreamt for Light Years in the Belly of a Mountain 7 – Grimes [...]

Visit Indie Shuffle to download. Sounds like: Sea of Bees, Ramona Falls, Lower Dens, Voxtrot Song: Spinto Band - The Living Things [download here ] What's so good? This is Spinto Band’s first official review on Indie Shuffle! I think it’s about time all you shufflers give them a listen. Spinto Band is a group of guys from Delaware, and they’ve got a niche for making incredibly infectious experimental indie pop. Case in point: their video for their track, “The Living Things.” Not only is this song great, but the video is so amusing, humorous and downright creative ...

The National have added 17 more names to the edition of the All Tomorrow's Parties festival that they're curating , which takes place December 7-9 at Butlins Holiday Centre in Minehead, England. Joining the bill are (deep breath): Perfume Genius, Kurt Vile, Youth Lagoon, Bear in Heaven, Michael Rother presents the music of Neu! & Harmonia, Deerhoof, Menomena, Nico Muhly, Stars of the Lid, Local Natives, Richard Reed Parry (Fire">Arcade Fire), Mark Mulcahy (Miracle Legion), Kathleen Edwards, Hauschka, So Percussion, Hayden, and new  Brassland  signings This is the Kit. Muhly, Reed Parry, and Hayden have collaborated with the National ...

Photos by Ben Meadows "Nootropics - intelligence-enhancing chemicals - lend their name to Lower Dens’ recently-released second album, and it’s precisely within this mental sphere, rather than any emotional or physical one, that tonight’s performance does its best work." Click here to read a full review of the gig.

Kurt Vile , Local Natives and more have been added to the line up of ATP curated by The National. Currently on down time, The National were recently coaxed out of the rehearsal room by All Tomorrow's Parties. Handed the keys to Minehead, the Brooklyn band have invited along some friends, contemporaries and heroes. The latest batch of line up additions include American songwriter Kurt Vile. Joined by The Violators, Vile's brand of hazy, laid back acoustic musings will resonate around the chalets later this year. Elsewhere, Local Natives have been confirmed while Perfume Genius has also been added ...

When I was down in Bristol for The Great Escape I went vinyl shopping.  To quite an irresponsible degree. The term I used (it might even be fair to say coined) on Twitter was ‘divorceable amounts of vinyl’. Some of it was new, like the new Lower Dens album, and some of it was old, [...]

Nootropics, more commonly known as smart drugs, are used for cognitive and neural enhancement. Baltimore five-piece Lower Dens have named their second album after these somewhat controversial mental aids ("boosting intelligence", of course, is...