SF Popfest returns for a fourth year for indie music lovers with a sweet tooth. This year’s festival spans three days and two venues, featuring 13 bands and three Djs for what should be a very confectionery Memorial Day weekend. Standouts include Kids on a Crime Spree, Cruel Summer, Manatee, Desario, and Black Elephant (just [...]

Far from her humble beginnings on Australian Idol, Brooke Addamo aka Owl Eyes has taken the Australian music scene by storm with her two EPs Faces and Raiders . Now she is back in 2012 with a brand new song and an album in the pipe works and she’s about to embark on a national tour to show off her hard work in the studio. We had a chat to Brooke about life after Idol, musical influences and her love of receiving postcards. Hey! How has 2012 been treating you so far? It’s been good so far I’ve ...

We’ve written a bit about Spectrum Spools in the past. As an imprint of the notoriously noisy Editions Mego, and as the figurative offspring fathered and still being dutifully breast-fed by curator and Emeralds member John Elliott, you wouldn’t be faulted for expecting the label to fit, at least on a superficial level, rather neatly into two, admittedly large categories — “electronic” and “experimental.” And so far, with releases by such artists as Motion Sickness of Time Travel, Hive Mind, and Drainolith, Spectrum Spools has mostly lived up to those expectations. But screw expectations. Elliott didn’t plant those ...

Oliver is an LA-based, nu-disco duo comprised of Vaughn Oliver and Oliver Goldstein (whom we featured recently under his other name U-Tern) For those of you as addicted to nu-disco's bouncy and sugary sweet synths as I am, this remix of "Don't Stop" will definitely satisfy your sweet tooth. It's not easy improving an already impeccable indie track -- but Oliver does it with ease, transforming Foster the People's original with disco synths and some noticeable Daft Punk influence.

NPR is streaming the new Rufus Wainwright album, Out of the Game (out May 1st). The New Yorker features an excerpt from Ian McEwan's forthcoming novel, Sweet Tooth. Tone Deaf interviews Mountain Goats bassist Peter Hughes. The Brooklyn Baker (the...

Beth Jeans Houghton & The Hooves Of Destiny‘s debut album, Yours Truly, Cellophane Nose, is a little underwhelming, in a hit and miss sort of way. It does contain a number of absolute gems though, ‘Atlas’ like ‘Sweet Tooth Bird‘ before it, is a case in point. A spiky indie pop song, with the breezy vocals soaring above galloping [...]

We stopped by Gourmet Boutique at Westin Copley Place, a haven of sweets, and asked Bostonians to name their favorite...

The Velvet Underground – Hear Comes The Sun Mic Mac – Slumber The Bar-Kays – Soul Rainbow Chan – Sweet Tooth The Avalanches – Since I Left You Bibio – Cry Baby Scuba – Three Sided Shape Matt Miller x Kilta – Grapevine (Flume Remix) Sharon Jones and The Dap-Kings – Be Easy Interview with [...]

De La Soul – Must B The Music Sietta – Dark Passenger Oisima – Melting Paraiso Rainbow Chan – Sweet Tooth The Glitch Mob – Between Two Points The Supremes – You Keep Me Hanging On James Brown – Think Albatross – Stockholm Syndrome D33j – Drowning Pools Holy Fuck – Bontempi Latin Sam Cooke [...]

De La Soul – Must B The Music Sietta – Dark Passenger Oisima – Melting Paraiso Rainbow Chan – Sweet Tooth The Glitch Mob – Between Two Points The Supremes – You Keep Me Hanging On James Brown – Think Albatross – Stockholm Syndrome D33j – Drowning Pools Holy Fuck – Bontempi Latin Sam Cooke [...]

You could say I have a sweet tooth for good swedish sounds. Lykke Li is surely one of the best that current Swedish pop has to offer, so I’m always on the look out for new stuff from her. She recently tweeted about a song she sung on with Swedish band Deportees on last year’s [...]

Triumphantly concluding a short tour of the UK, Beth Jeans Houghton & The Hooves Of Destiny's gig at the Hoxton Square Bar & Kitchen showcased tracks from the band's first album, the inexplicably-titled 'Yours Truly, Cellophane Nose'. The album was finally released last month after almost four years of intense anticipation since Houghton's music first started appearing. Often confounding and impossible to accurately categorise, Beth Jeans Houghton looks like an indie Lady Gaga with a predilection for quirky costumes and animal heads, her on stage demeanour possessing a sultry, punky witchiness interlaced with dry sarcasm and fidgety nervousness. In a climate where every female singer is supposed to conform to one or other set of industry-packaged norms, Houghton has carved a brave and uncompromising niche for herself and the results are all the more pleasing for it. Arriving on stage to a wonky synth version of 'Also Sprach Zarathustra', Houghton and The Hooves immediately set about reimagining album tracks, early songs, B-sides and covers without the strings and sonic trickery that would normally envelop the studio versions; the result was a mixture of skiffly folk tracks, shouty pieces filled with theatrical drama, feisty punk, amazing five-part harmonies and even some very unladylike phlegm-gobbing from Houghton. “It's just like watching The Pistols,” quips someone in the audience, wryly. Bassist Rory Gibson tries unsuccessfully to detract the audience's attention from Houghton's shimmering, way-too-short outfit with some absolutely preposterous trousers, but it's evident that the spotlight tonight is squarely on the diminutive Houghton, whose guitar somehow seems too big for her. Stealing some of the ...

On the first night of the UK tour to celebrate the release of their debut album, 'Yours Truly (Cellophane Nose)', we caught up with Clash cover stars Beth Jeans Houghton & The Hooves of Destiny. Interviewed filmed in the depths of Glasgow's Captain's Rest by Mark Millar and Ray Jackson. Edited by David Lai. (Comes with footage from the band's single Sweet Tooth Bird).

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And number one with a bullet today... Sweet Tooth Bird - Beth Jeans Houghton & The Hooves of Destiny .  Destined to be a rockestra masterpiece, kinda of reminds me of how I felt with early Fiery Furnaces before they got boring.  Ms. Houghton should have quite a future ahead of her and we (meaning, you know, just me...) all anticipate her upcoming album.  Also check out her Liliputt single from 2011. Also peaking in the playlist Bullet in the Gun - The Delorentos - Pouges / Springsteen / Walkmen / Hold Steady amalgamation kind of sounds bad at first read but for some reason works in this ...