It’s been about a year since the boys of Amsterdam Station released their seven song EP, Stories from the Subtext. The EP came to initiate the band’s plan for a full-length album in the coming new year. Hailing from Atlanta, Georgia, the band consists of Greg Jarvis, Andy Potash, Schafer Gray, and Chris Connelly. With…
Over the last decade, the music industry has struggled to provide a reliable way to successfully support independent artists. The traditional method of saving money to make a record, playing a ton of shows and hoping that people buy your music just isn’t working. Now more than ever, the market is so saturated with great…
On December 18th, Cage The Elephant will return with their fourth album, Tell Me I’m Pretty. This follows the Kentucky rockers’ Grammy-nominated Melophobia in 2013. Last month, the band unveiled the lead single, “Mess Around.” Now, they are back with another preview of Tell Me I’m Pretty with “Trouble.” Although the cheerful melodies intertwined throughout give the song a light-hearted feel,…
Robert McCurry and Caleb Dills of Superbody recently released their first album, Hades Land. With a deep and dreamy synth pop style, the boys from Chattanooga have made multiple appearances in Athens, Georgia. McCurry and Dills briefly talk about their fateful history and possible upcoming albums with an air of modest humor. VM: Superbody is…
If there is a point where future meets past, and east meets west, it’s the new PALMAS album, To The Valley. Coming to headphones near you Friday, November 13, the Philly band has gathered all the metallic sounds of East Coast rock, shipped them across the country to the sandy beaches of California, and time…
In April 2015, we made a list of five artists that need to make a comeback. Missy Elliott comes in at number one. Now our dream has finally come true with the release of her new music video “WTF.” #TBT, the video is straight out of the early 2000’s; not even Missy Elliott has aged….
“The wheel ain’t broken. You don’t need to fix it, just trying to put some new rims on it.” At CMJ this year, the first band on my must-interview list was Saint Pé, the newest project formed by Black Lips alum and current Diamond Rugs guitarist/vocalist Ian Saint Pé. Backstory As a not-born-but-bred Georgian, I’ve…
All musicians love doing covers of other songs, but these guys have taken the cake. Sorority Noise, a four-piece emo band from Hartford, Connecticut, recently released a single on their Bandcamp website that is none other than “Tiny Rick (Let Me Out)”. For fans of the wildly popular television series Rick and Morty, this is a homage to…
