The Prids have released a video for “I’ll Wait,” one of the best tracks on their excellent 2010 release Chronosynclastic. The band has been slowly but surely releasing videos for each of the album’s tracks; “I’ll Wait” is the eighth song on the album (and the fifth video), and features Built To Spill’s Doug Martsch on guitar and harmony vocals.
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Chicago experimental outfit Roommate is known for its thought-provoking lyrics and intricate, electronics-infused instrumentation — and Guilty Rainbow, the band’s newest release, impresses on both fronts. Continue reading…
MP3: Chad VanGaalen – “Peace on the Rise”
MP3: Chad VanGaalen – “Sara”
Canadian singer/songwriter Chad VanGaalen recently released his eighth album, Diaper Island, and in October, he’ll hit the road — with a stop scheduled at San Diego’s Soda Bar on 10/10. Continue reading…
The debut album from Wild Flag, the new project of former Sleater-Kinney guitarist and vocalist/NPR contributor/sketch-comedy developer Carrie Brownstein, will hit stores on September 13. You can now sample all the tracks in the official album trailer (above), directed by Andrew Ellmaker and Lara Gallagher.
The band — which also features S-K drummer Janet Weiss, Helium and Autoclave’s Mary Timony, and Rebecca Cole of The Minders — will hit the road this fall, with a November 1 Casbah date already lined up. Full list of tour dates is below.
Well, that’s that. The once-storybook romance between Swell Season musicians Glen Hansard and Marketa Irglova received the final nail in its coffin today, as Irglova announced her recent marriage to “the most beautiful man [she] ever met.” It wasn’t Hansard. Continue reading…