While it’s not exactly a new concept, the visual album has become more commonplace recently than ever before. French artist Serge Gainsbourg’s 1971 visual album Histoire de Melody Nelson has received some nods for arguably being the first visual album. Through the rest of the 20th century, bands such as The Beatles, Pink Floyd, and Prince…
Marlon Williams is only 27 years old, but unfailingly keeps proving that his musical maturity is a force to be reckoned with. With a crooning voice that upon first listen may be mistaken for Elvis’s, Marlon lulls into captivation anyone who’s listening in his second solo album, Make Way for Love, combining the styles of…
Superchunk turns anger into noise—and joyous noise at that—on the band’s newest album, What a Time to be Alive. Twenty-eight years after their self-titled debut, the band’s fury and energy is as powerful as ever, as frontman Mac McCaughan’s vocals mesh with soaring guitars and the pulsing percussion of drummer Jon Wurster. The 2016 election has shaped…
Throughout the 71 minutes of Car Seat Headrest’s superb new (half new) album Twin Fantasy, frontman Will Toledo sings about being human. Or rather, about the struggle to be human when it feels like he simply does not relate to anyone around him. On this new version of his 2011 Bandcamp album of the same…
For a band that has excelled at portraying the several variations of panic, Ought have always kept great focus on being human in the center of an expansive map. The boldest step the band could make after 2015’s Sun Coming Down was perhaps toward the only place bigger than the planet: the subconscious. Room Inside…
In their latest release, Uncle, Duke & the Chief, Born Ruffians continue to do exactly what is expected of them: yodel out jangly, catchy indie rock tunes. Whether or not you’re fatigued by the lack of substantial evolution from the band who released their first full-length album almost 10 years ago is for you to…
There are love songs, there are breakup songs and then there are the songs on indie-pop band Wild Child’s newest album, Expectations. They describe relationships in limbo, which is an all-to-relatable status nowadays. The members of Wild Child have successfully managed to mature sonically while still remaining true to their fundamentals. While the band has certainly grown in numbers over…
No matter what you think of MGMT, you’ve got to give them props for refusing to become stale. The band has evolved from their original bohemian rocker aesthetic, refusing to be defined solely by Oracular Spectacular, the hit album that boosted them into the spotlight over a decade ago. That being said, their newest album, Little Dark Age,…
[tps_header] It’s never too early to start looking ahead. While we just closed out the 2017 festival season, we’re already starting to plan for 2018. And trust us, it will be here sooner than we know it. One festival that’s already on our radar for next year is Imagine. 2017 marked the fourth edition of the…
Athens, GA-based Wanderwild have released their debut full-length, In Due Time, out now. Wanderwild, originally the brainchild of singer, songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, and producer Matt Martin, has since its inception evolved from a solo project into a full-fledged band with Martin at the helm. “The album title, In Due Time, refers to the theme of patience — relationally, creatively,”…