It’s just about summertime again, and if you’re looking for something to put on a Hippie Hill playlist that won’t make you go all Cow…
This is not what it sounds like, OK? There is nothing in folksy pop act Woods’s “Suffering Season” that will make you suffer. Au contraire,…
These days, it feels like all the buzzed-about “groundbreaking new music” is complicated and electronic-y and loopy (in more ways than one) and sometimes all…
It sounds like San Francisco-based sextet Sleepy Sun would put on a wild live show. I’m listening to “Sleepy Son” (punny song title, plus ten…
Imagine, if you will, that you’re at a party. There’s a good number of people packed into the apartment, but not too many, and you’re…
I’ll be straight with you, here. New York-based quintet Here We Go Magic’s first single off their second LP, “Collector” is not going to be…
In San Francisco (OK, Berkeley’s just as guilty) everybody’s always trying to find the next big music-related thing before everybody else just to say they…
You know this song. It’s a sappy classic, but Skeeter Davis’s totally earnest delivery and the rueful melody have always kept it far from irreconcilable…
The title track off SF-based Thao with the Get Down Stay Down’s second album is not the band’s best known. That particular honor would probably…
As a fairly average music-enjoying human being, I–from time to time–fantasize about being a famous singer. And when I do, I frequently imagine I sing…
Alright, you got me. I have a major soft spot for things that induce nostalgia. But, please. Who doesn’t? Simpler times, man. Simpler times.That’s why…
Well, it’s official. Thanksgiving’s over, and whether you la-la-love the holidays or hate the season for any of various social/political/practical reasons, you can’t avoid it….
The Subjects might say on their MySpace that they’re “Like Nickelback but less ballsy,” but if their song “Winter Vacation” is any indication, they are…
The Subjects might say on their MySpace that they’re “Like Nickelback but less ballsy,” but if their song “Winter Vacation” is any indication, they are…
If last week’s “Terminally Chill” will kill you with coolness, then this Monday’s “Earthly Bodies” will bring you back to life. Or, um, something equally…
