Destroyer is the nom de rock of Dan Bejar, who's a songwriting member of the much more successful New Pornographers. Bejar's fey brand of louche is not everyone's cup of tea, but he rides it to ecstatic choral heights at least once or twice per album. His latest, Kaputt, was released on Jan. 25.
With their slackerfied-Blondie sounds, California trio Best Coast have a lot of potential as an up and coming band to get big on their first time around.
LA outfit does surfy, psyched-out covers of '60's Cambodian pop tunes. A New album, Cannibal Courtship, was just released.
NE-based experimental drummer has collaborated with Jim O'Rourke, Thurston Moore and Jandek (gulp!), and toured with Bjork.
Tourfilter pal Bobby was telling us about Young Adults this afternoon in line at Peet's in Harvard Square. And then this OTHER DUDE randomly comes up to us, having overheard, and is like, yeah, they're awesome. And yup, sure enough, they are just the kind of hard, melodic rock we dig. They'd fit right in on Jagjaguwar, opening for a band like Wilderness. Check their MySpace
Sheperdess' 90's-drenched indie rock songs sound ready to break the frak out of Boston. Tourfilter favorite track: Green Seat!
Now split up across both coasts, Boston alt-pop trio Apollo Sunshine (formerly of revered Spin-Art records) are a good 5 years past their peak of commercial potency - but there is still a lot of band left catching these guys on the way down.
Boston-local "power pop" group that combines the '90s fun of Weezer with the lab-coat perfectionism of '70s acts like 10cc and Gilbert O'Sullivan. Their debut CD, which came out this summer, is one of the best local discs of its variety since the heyday of the Pills.
Roger Waters will be performing Pink Floyd's awesome 1979 double-album The Wall in its entirety.
Caterwauling Brooklyn experimentalists Dirty Projectors have collaborated with Bjork; a track from their new Album Ascending Melody can be downloaded for free at their official website!
Aziz Ansari earned a place in Tourfilter's heart with his depiction of a Pitchfork-terrorizing "Indie Marketing Guru" in a send-up of the dawn of the MP3 blog era; he tours regularly with a hilarious conventional stand-up act.
A one-mand band from Boston who layers analog and digital together to create gorgeous, gentle-sounding improvised compositions. Echoes of Tortoise and, often, Fripp and Eno.
Young duo from Vancouver manages a very complete sound from just a guitar and a drum-kit. Their loud, slightly detuned and anarchic songs echo My Bloody Valentine and Lush.
On this night Boston's Major Stars are celebrating their new album, out on on Chicago's Drag City label, home to Bonnie "Prince" Billy, Bill Callahan, Jim O'Rourke, etc. etc. Long signed to Cambridge's Twisted Village, which is a noise/experimental label as well as an underground record shop on Eliot St. in Harvard Square, Major Stars play loud, guitar-heavy psychedelic rock.
"Mr. Superharp", born in Tunica, Miss. in 1935, has played harmonica for Muddy Waters, Led Zeppelin and B.B. King. Soulful, heart-dropping, sweat-dripping breakdowns. check the video
