Dee Dee from Dum Dum Girls put together a splendidly-curated list of 2015’s highlights! Check out all of our 2015 year-end lists here. DEE DEE’S BEST OF 2015: Favorite Albums: I’ve been obsessed with The Weeknd’s The Beauty Behind The Madness. It’s phenomenal and inspiring, and strangely, there are a few eerily similar topics/lyrics on my next […]
Julia’s list! You can check out all our Best of 2015 lists here. 1. Kamasi Washington – The Epic Maximalist, spiritual music for your jazz-starved soul. 2. Kendrick Lamar – “Alright” Is it the New Black National Anthem? Maybe. That’s history’s call. It was, however, the right song for a community dealing with the bullshit of 2015. […]
Here’s Leonard’s favorites from the year! You can check out all our Best of 2015 lists here. 1. Shilpa Ray – Last Year’s Savage Enough already, world – bow down to the power and greatness of Shilpa Ray! Her style is rooted in a bygone born-to-lose era of rock (see “Johnny Thunders Fantasy Space Camp”), but […]
Lanterns on the Lake: the band’s own sonorous name is the first indication that these are musicians with a thing for beauty. But not too much beauty. The Newscastle, England-based quartet (Hazel Wilde on vocals, Paul Gregory on guitar, Ol Ketteringham on drums and piano, and Bob Allan on bass) like to contrast soaring softness […]
I’m a big fan of Derek Fudesco and Amber Webber and love all of their musical projects including Cave Singers, Black Mountain, The Murder City Devils, Lighning Dust and Pretty Girls Make Graves. Derek sent me the duo’s new Kodiak Deathbeds in July, and though I was immediately drawn to its loveliness, I was still in the […]
I’m feeling a bit nostalgic for the 90s. This is obviously a glaring sign that I’m, er, maturing, and although I haven’t begun to beat young’uns over the head with how it used to be yet, my ears do prick up when someone from back in the day still makes good noise. So it is […]
Hey look, another Joy Division re-make! We here at Sound It Out are of the age that we’re probably generationally predisposed to Joy Division covers (for instance, reviewing Sailor & I’s cover of “Disorder” last May), but this one by the band Sannhet strikes our interest more for what it signals in contemporary metal. On […]
And, Starchild said unto us, “I look at him as a genre. Within the genre of Prince, there is so much to discover.” Out of the mouth of babes. Has a greater musical truth ever been spoken? Choose your heroes wisely, as Starchild has, and you too could end up signed to Ghostly and ready […]
When you hear the delicate opening guitar line of Cross Records’ new single, “Steady Waves,” The Pixies may not be the first band that comes to mind. But this duo out of Dripping Springs, Texas utilizes Pixies-style loud-soft-loud dynamics beautifully, even if Cross Records’ version of loud is on the softer side. Cross Record’s dramatic […]
No point in denying it: fall is in full swing in the northeast. Leaves are dropping at a quick pace, those perennial jokes about Mr. Autumn Man and decorative gourd season are growing stale again, and the draft sneaking through unsuspecting windows brings notice of the chill to come. Of course, some people enjoy this […]