Album Review

PS I Love You’s third album, For Those Who Stay, out July 22nd via Paper Bag Records, will certainly warrant the Canadian indie rock duo yet another Polaris Prize nomination. Fronted by multi-instrume...

UK-based, DJ-turned-songwriter Fin Greenall’s orchestral folk trio, Fink, is the Django Unchained of their genre, rooted in a Southwest image of covered wagons and rolling tumbleweed but still progress...

The pulsating reverberations of deadmau5’s "Avaritia" from while(1...

"Blue Sky" was inspired by Lone's Reality Testing (2014) Reality Testing was released June 16th, 2014 on R&S Records. Stream it via THUMP. ...

Under the moniker Young & Sick, LA’s beloved album artist and fashion designer Nick Van Hofwegen’s own musical career has had a smooth liftoff. Three years in the making, Young & Sick boasts a spa...

Arriving two years after their 2012 EP, Undersea, The Antlers’ nine-track Familiars washes open with lead single “Palace,” a soft piano ballad. With its subdued tones and relaxed hi-hat beat, this in...

Had Echo and the Bunnymen not split for six years in the 90s, they might today possess the same immortal status as Irish greats U2. With their psychedelic, New Wave tint, the prog-rock veterans have more or l...

Melbourne’s Strange Talk are the luckiest strikers around, having survived both a label shift and a name change. Prior to gaining recognition from Australia’s Triple J (a radio station that spotlights emer...

DWNTWN sounds like a fairly ordinary indie pop four-piece. A good indie pop four-piece, though; one that has two EPs under their belt and the Kitsune stamp of approval. The band's formation in 2010 after a bot...

Due out on April 22nd, Neon Trees’s third album, appropriately titled Pop Psychology, is the pre-summer album that will convince you that lead singer Tyler Glenn knows exactly what is going on in that hormon...

Since the breakout of his irresistible, soulful cover of Blackstreet’s “No Diggity” and debut EP Thinking in Textures, Nick Murphy under the moniker Chet Faker found himself riding a viral tide of succes...

Dubbed Britain’s best new band by former Oasis’ member Noel Gallagher and set to perform at the Great American Music Hall on April 14th, Kettering-based Temples has us feeling nostalgic. Perhaps nostalgic ...

Spring is here, the sun is out, and love is in the air, but Florida's Matt Hires is too familiar with the charming games that arise with spring romance. Hires is a heartache machine and "all knows is to br...

  While the immediate catchiness of Mac DeMarco’s first two albums gained him a well-deserved following, the 23-year-old tries to escape his shadow and earn a slightly more serious reputation as a song...

Indie contortionists Walking Shapes traverse a variety of genres on their sophomore effort, Taka Come On. It’ll be their debut album, however, as the band’s prior release was a 13-track mixtape. They wan...