Abrasive, guitar-driven post-punk with the occasional soft spot It’s pretty bold to claim, as Jack Name does in the title of the first song on his new album Light Show to have your “own Electric Ladyland.” It’s even bolder when you consider that the song in...
Angsty synth-heavy indie pop At their best, Camera2 make beautifully layered, impossibly catchy, dancefloor-ready synth-pop. Songs like “Appetite” and “Freak Show,” the first two on their new EP, reveal the band’s bright and infectious grooviness. In both of...
Sexy synth-rock. Kansas synth rockers Noise FM offer up a charged, provocative album that would be most at home in a dingy underground club. The album is high energy throughout, with dominant, grooving basslines and super catchy choruses and lines, all with...
A folk album that will mend your broken heart. Peggy Sue has been around for the past ten years, in which they have undergone a few name changes, released multiple LPs, and toured with a lot of popular artists emerging from England. Despite all of this, the...
A synthy, upbeat indie rock album For those who love synthesizers, bumpin' beats, a small dose of guitars, and males who have decent voices that can carry a tune, look no further than Gardens and Villa's album, Dunes. The album is an easy listen, and will...
The National on Xanax The artists formerly known as We Are Augustines kick of their new record ready to fill some stadiums and touch some teenaged hearts. Think of everything you like about the National, the spacious, swelling instrumentation, the...
Shoegaze, psych, mellow Deerhunter with a little Arctic Monkeys Brooklyn based band, Invisible Days, has released their self-titled EP with six new tracks. The band, who has released two singles and one other EP, plays very accessible shoegaze, chill and psych...
Showcasing some of Minnesota's finest Twinkie Jiggles, also known as Sean McPherson, is a Minnesotan bassist who has been a key player in the Twin Cities Hip-Hop industry for years. His latest creation, Too Big To Fail, has brought together a wide array of...
A Soulful, Bluesy, Jazzy, Old School Sound Former contestant on NBC's The Voice, Jessica Childress has such a powerful voice drawing comparisons to soul legends like Diana Ross. She takes this sound and expresses it in rock, blues and jazz settings, in...
Another Run of the mill “blues-rock” duo It seems that in recent years, any guitar/drums duo playing some form of raw rock music is inevitably compares to The White Stripes and The Black Keys and labeled as either garage rock, blues rock or blues-punk. Such is...