Hey Anna: Pompette EP — Hey Anna is a band made up of Anna, Katie and Erin Rauch-Sassen on vocals, Matthew Langner on drums and Andrew Smolin on guitar. Katie plays bass and Anna and Erin do keyboards and synths sometimes, too. The band has been putting out music since their first single, ‘Blackout’ in [...]
The Postelles: …And It Shook Me – When the New York four-piece The Postelles released their first album in 2011, they didn’t need to be original. Produced by Albert Hammond, Jr., and already set in line with a handful of semi-prolific New York indie rock bands, they could have easily settled into a point of [...]
Young Wonder: Show Your Teeth EP — This band from Cork, Dublin produces electronic dub-pop music. The duo, Ian Ring and Rachel Koeman, released a self-titled EP in April 2012. Their sound is a combination of airy, electric-feeling vocals, constant synths and big beats with the characteristic dub stop-and-start style. For a newer band Young [...]
She & Him: Volume 3 — With three full albums (including a Christmas album in 2011) under their belts, She & Him are comfortable in the best way. In the way that you can rely on them for some retro-chic, hipster-catnip music that really has the vocal chops, and the instrumental variety to stand on [...]
Cayucas: Bigfoot — A staple of my childhood was the sitcom vacation episode. It was all of the characters you knew and loved, but now they were in a new and tropical locale. Unfortunately, they weren’t always that magical. Sometimes, Disney would attempt a little cross marketing and the Tanner clan would head to Walt [...]