We’ve been massive fans of the searing political pop-punk provocateur Ted Leo and his inimitable Pharmacists since the Tyranny of Distance, and we’ve followed with fascination his meteoric indie-rock rise, blasting through all spectrums of punk from soaring post-pop anthems to gnarled, grizzled fist-pumpers. Still, we were never prepared for the treat that is The Brutalist Bricks, [...]

We’ve been following the progress of Swedish indie-pop wunderkinds Love Is All ever since the first time we spun Nine Times That Same Song years and years ago – and now it seems that after relentless touring and a solid sophomore LP they’ve fallen back into the finest of forms with their Polyvinyl debut Two [...]

Back and on the attack the Joy Formidable, masters of the rock and roll gut-punch, are continuing their reign over the booming indie-shoegaze world with their upcoming tour of Europe and a new single “Popinjay” accompanied by the video below. While the song features the same snarly, snaky guitar lines we’ve come to [...]

To say that we’ve waited with bated breath for any new tunes from Slayer-acolytes and potty-mouth purveyors of shred-tastic shoegaze Giant Drag would be doing Annie Hardy a huge disservice – we’re blue in the face, unable to resucisate from waiting so long. So when we finally nabbed out copy of the Swan [...]

Seems our favorite experimental artist/hip-hop megastar/motivational speaker Abe Gil aka Treasure Mammal has been busy as of late, putting out a split-7″ with fellow up and coming Arizona dwellers Feel Free, and let’s just say that upon placing the needle to the wax we were blown away by the leaps and bounds these bands have [...]

We’re a little late on posting this but we don’t see enough of our favorite NYC songstress Lissy Trullie crashing about the blogosphere these days. Here’s a little acoustic performance of “Self-Taught Learner” from Papermag.

Lissy Trullie – “Hold Your Head”

Here’s the actual video of standout track “Landmines” from the Action Design, now in post-worthy form! Check it out y’all!

The Action Design – “Move On”