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.
Shimmery Spector-tinged bedroom pop. The NYC couple follow last year's sweet, buzzy 7" with a surprisingly substantive album. Girlish vocals skirt the edge of saccharine and xylophones do tinkle, but thoughtful lyrics, solid bass lines and echoing crescendos give the songs backbone: this is pop that delivers. Album out 6/7.
LA outfit does surfy, psyched-out covers of '60's Cambodian pop tunes. A New album, Cannibal Courtship, was just released.
The yelping + jangling emitted by Florida 4some Holiday Shores recalls '70's Talking Heads.
Free Energy's debut record - the James Murphy/DFA-produced "Stuck on Nothing" - is a fun-time wallop of power pop slathered in Thin Lizzy guitars. With Foxy Shazam.
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.
Author of numerous musical paeans to boston, Jonathan Richman's lyrics are sweet, sad, funny, and readily comprehensible; his melodies are witty and pretty; his live show is intimate. here's a video of Richman performing crowd favorite "I Was Dancing At A Lesbian Bar" on Conan.
