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No Disassemble
by Slow Runner
Slow and Steady Wins The music of Slow Runner is described by the band “like if r2-d2 had an aching heart and a love for the noisiest beatles songs.” It is the brainchild of South Carolina-based Michael Flynn, who sounds a lot like Ben Folds. However you describe it, No Disassemble is an often transcendent pleasure to listen to. |
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Give Blood
by Brakes
Putting the Fun Back In Alternative Rock In their debut album, Brakes displays the ability to go from catchy riffs to seven-second punk thrashes to heartfelt (if slightly dirge-like) ballads in the blink of an eye. |
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Sufjan Stevens in Concert
by Sufjan Stevens
Take it on the run Screw the superlatives already. Why dance around it? This is amazing, amazing music. It inspires. It creates fan boys out of full-grown men and groupies out of critics. |
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Pinback in Concert
by Pinback
Four ways to survive your first Pinback concert If you can't hear the band, locate your nearest groupie and crouch down low: he or she will be singing along with the band in popular word-for-word fashion and all will be well in your world. It'll be almost like they're lip synching, but ... not. You'll just have to hope the boy so proudly trussed up in the faux hawk and girl's jeans is a good singer. |
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Better Than Ezra Live
by Better Than Ezra
Live Again Better Than Ezra's Kevin Griffin is a guy you initially want to punch in the mouth. |
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Clem Snide in Concert
by Snide, Clem
Smile though your heart is breaking Whether or not Clem Snide knew its devotees were few in number last Wednesday or not, the band made sure to entertain its biggest fans first and foremost: themselves. |
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Low in Concert
by Low
Can you hear that sweet, sweet sound? Mimi at the drums makes Meg White look like an excitable Muppet by comparison. |
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The Magnetic Fields Live
by The Magnetic Fields
Classical Pop Technically, the Magnetic Fields can be classified as a “pop” band, but the experience of one of their concerts is much more akin to a classical music performance, and the result is both unique and highly enjoyable. |
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Violent Femmes Live
by Violent Femmes
Much more than "that Blister in the Sun Band" Many bands who have been around as long as the Femmes would sleep through a show in that situation, and would hardly have been blamed for doing so; however, the Femmes went above and beyond the call of duty |
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Good News for People who Love Bad News
by Modest Mouse
"Life handed us a paycheck, we said 'we worked harder than this!'" Good News is American to the core. It's rock'n'roll and carnivals and marches and swamps; willfulness and grime, ambition and temper, and the arrogance to want to fix the world from the ground up. |
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