Crash Kings take on Rolling Stone magazines greatest rock guitar songs of all time with nothing but drums, bass and a custom clavinet rig. Crash Kings self-titled debut album available 5/26. Filmed in LA on a Canon 5D....
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On May 25th, the band’s self-titled sixth album is due – their first since 2001′s Shangri-La Dee Da. Based on early reviews, expect tuneful melodies and rock guitar crunch, psychedelic solos and impressive crooning courtesy of Scott Weiland. A few hard-hitting tracks featured tuneful, Beatles-esque songwriting, and a pair of songs on the album’s second...
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Less than two weeks til Band of Horses drops their latest LP Infinite Arms. This is the group’s first release sans Sub Pop and on Columbia. The video below shows some good behind the scenes footage of frontman Ben Bridwell collaborating with the rest of the Horses to put the final stamp on the album....
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The “retro” tag is added to almost any contemporary work that sounds like it was originally recorded between 1966 and 1974, and Hawthorne, among the newest contributors to the genre, is aware of how trends come and go. After being introduced to Stones Throw label head Peanut Butter Wolf by mutual friend Noelle Scaggs of...
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Don't know who Mondo Drag is? Get your act together dude. The Fro caught up with Iowa's best garage/ psych/space/sludge/stoner rock band ever, Mondo...
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Japandroids These guys are perhaps the most blogged about band on the internets. Well, at least top 10. So yes, I’ve heard of them. Their most recent album Post-Nothing, follows two successful previous albums– 2008′s Lullaby Death Jams and 2007′s All Lies. I’ve unintentionally avoided them thus far, but hearing their “garage rock” sound (as...
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I guess they’re right, old people, though slow and dangerous behind the wheel, can still serve a purpose. Yo, Ruth Flowers has been behind the 1s and 2s since DJ Paulie D’s PARENTS were in diapers. Clad in her leopard-skin shrug and dark sunglasses, 69-year-old Ruth Flowers has conquered French clubland from the Cannes Film...
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In the last couple of decades, the city of Glasgow has shone as one of the world’s most vibrant and diverse music scenes. Twin Atlantic – a young four-piece whose ambitious debut mini-album, Vivarium, is packed with enormous sweeping riffs, moods that flit from light to shade, and impassioned vocals dripping with gorgeous Scottish vowels...
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Broken Bells, the much hyped up project between Danger Mouse and the Shins’ James Mercer, had a coming-out-party Friday night, performing at LA’s Bootleg Theater. The unlikely couple sound pretty good, with Mercer lending his distinguished falsetto over some slow, trippy background harmonies. Broken Bells manages to sound familiar yet contemporary, like the uncovering of...
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Rx Bandits is a four-piece band based in Seal Beach, California. The band formed in 1995 in Orange County, California. They have appeared on the Vans Warped Tour, at the Bonnaroo Music and Arts Festival, at The Bamboozle and will be at Coachella this year. Originally known as The Pharmaceutical Bandits, the band began their...
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