07/18/2008
New Music From Deerhunter - "Oh, It's Such a Shame" (Jay Reatard Cover)
What’s better than Deerhunter’s newest album, Microcastle? Oh, I don’t know, maybe Deerhunter covering Jay Reatard’s “Oh, It’s Such a Shame” from his last album Blood Visions? Yes! As we mentioned previously, the two have teame ...
Read MorePosted by Michael on 07/18/2008 7:43 AM EST in Indie-Pop, Post-Punk, Lo-Fi, Punk | Permalink
07/14/2008
Go To This: Jay Reatard, Dark Horse & the Carousels, Tough Shits Tonight @ JB’s
Got a case of the Mondays? Well, there's no better way to kill the work-week blues than enjoying an evening of no-frills garage-rock tonight at Johnny Brenda's. Two local favorites Dark Horse and The Carousels and The Tough Shits get rowdy w ...
Read MorePosted by Michael on 07/14/2008 9:46 AM EST in Post-Punk, Garage Rock, Glam, Lo-Fi, Local Music, Events | Permalink
07/10/2008
Go To This: No Age, High Places + Abe Vigoda Tonight @ The Church
We have been talking up LA's No Age with reviews and videos for some time now and tonight they make their official live debut in Philly with fellow Walrus favs High Places and Abe Vigoda. True, the band has played a few gigs in town before, but ...
Read MorePosted by Michael on 07/10/2008 6:41 AM EST in Indie-Pop, Electronic, Lo-Fi | Permalink
07/02/2008
Contest: Win The Ltd. Edition AITA/Times New Viking Designed T-Shirt and Poster!
Yes our friends at Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction are awesome. Teaming up with Times New Viking on a T-shirt and poster design is the coolest thing they have done thus far. The band designed a limited edition Tee and tour poster which ...
Read MorePosted by Michael on 07/02/2008 2:39 PM EST in Lo-Fi, Indie-Rock, Contest | Permalink
07/01/2008
Jay Reatard and Deerhunter To Cover Each other....In Kisses?
Since I am loving the new Deerhunter album and have been a big fan of Jay Reatard's since his 2006 post-punk assault Blood Visions, news that Jay and Deerhunter will be teaming up for the next installment in Jay's Matador 7" series, has got me p ...
Read MorePosted by Michael on 07/01/2008 9:33 PM EST in Post-Punk, Lo-Fi, Indie-Rock, News | Permalink
06/30/2008
New Video From No Age: "Eraser"
Remember when MTV played music videos...and they were actually good? Often times they made no sense or were severely crypyic, which was the best thing about them. No Age's MTV video debut (weird unto itself) for the song "Eraser" is either an ...
Read MorePosted by Michael on 06/30/2008 12:06 PM EST in Lo-Fi, Indie-Rock, Video | Permalink
06/26/2008
Go To This: Times New Viking Tonight @ Johnny Brenda's!!!
Philly people, you seriously can't miss this! The excellent, ear-shattering lo-fi three-eyed monster that is Times New Viking will strike Johnny Brenda's this eve and leave a trail of flowers after the dust settles. As it so boldly states on the ...
Read MorePosted by Michael on 06/26/2008 1:36 PM EST in Lo-Fi, Indie-Rock, Events | Permalink
The Vivian Girls Are Gonna Tell the World
There's no doubt about it, our friends over at XXJFGs have awesome taste. Their recent post about Brooklyn's Vivian Girls got me a-downloadin' "Tell the World" and I'm glad I did. It's a treble-y wash of femme-fatale pop, with a sexy and muffled ...
Read MorePosted by Michael on 06/26/2008 1:31 PM EST in Garage Rock, Lo-Fi | Permalink
06/03/2008
Titus Andonicus Air Their Garden State Grievances
Titus Andronicus' (also the name of Shakespeare's bloodiest play) self-titled tune from their debut album The Airing of Grievances, fuses the bounce of The Vaselines with the un-corked rage of Bright Eyes, or a lo-fi, cracked out version of Spri ...
Read MorePosted by Michael on 06/03/2008 7:55 AM EST in Lo-Fi, Indie-Rock, Local Music | Permalink
05/23/2008
Times New Viking Tell Their 'Song-Stories'
Times New Viking, one of the more interesting bands around, visited Daytrotter last week and recorded a live session, while giving context and meaning behind some of their songs. My favorite story and song of the bunch was "The Apartment." A ...
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