Metric Share “Now or Never Now” Video; Plus Stream Their New Album

Sep 21, 2018 Christopher Roberts

Metric released a new album, Art of Doubt, today via MMI/Crystal Math Music. Now they have shared a video for "Now or Never Now," which we previously wrote was the album's strongest advance single. Lorraine Nicholson directed the video, which was filmed in Miami and features frontwoman Emily Haines in a sad nightclub while the rest of the band drive around town in a limo, trying to find her. You can also stream the full album here.

James - Tim Booth on “Living in Extraordinary Times”

Sep 20, 2018 Web Exclusive

Tim Booth is right. We're living in extraordinary times. James' new album, its 15th, the title track from which this line is taken, illustrates the concept through songs that alternate between the band's most personal and most political in recent memory. 

Devon Welsh on “Dream Songs”

Sep 18, 2018 Web Exclusive

There's a sort of unspoken line one can cross with an emotive vocal style. On one side of it, healthy reflection is accessible, encouraged even. On the other, a reaction of mild cringing is not uncalled for. 

My Firsts: Joey Dosik

Aug 22, 2018 Web Exclusive

My Firsts is our email interview series where we ask musicians to tell us about their first life experiences, be it early childhood ones (first word, first concert, etc.) or their first tastes of being a musician (first band, first tour, etc.). For this My Firsts we talk to Joey Dosik. 

Beach House - 10 Best Songs:  Ranking the Best Tracks from Teen Dream to 7

May 23, 2018

With their latest album 7, Beach House has now released eight albums (seven studio albums and one rarities and B-sides release) and 83 songs. Distilling these 83 songs down to a 10 best was a daunting task but one that was met with an enthusiastic glee. Not much is better than revisiting Beach House's entire catalog of their signature dream-pop formula of airy guitars, hushed indie-rock beats, and ethereal vocals. From their self-titled 2006 debut to the recently released 7, their sound shimmers with lush and gossamer melodies, catchy beats and softly soaring guitar riffs. Of course it proved too difficult to pick just 10 tracks, so below is list of the top 14. A 10 best and four honorable mentions.

Of course all of this is subjective, this is simply the opinion of one writer. No doubt you have your own list of favorite Beach House songs. And yes, we are aware there are no songs from the band's first two albums, 2006's Beach House and 2008's Devotion; we feel they truly came into their own with their third album, 2010's Teen Dream. By Matt the Raven

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Interpol at House of Vans Brooklyn, August 24, 2018

Sep 17, 2018 By Charlie Duerr

As I approached the House of Vans, my eyes were met with what had become a familiar neighborhood scene in Greenpoint, Brooklyn over the past eight years-hordes of young, fashionable New Yorkers assembled outside the doors of 25 Franklin Street in long queues that winded and wrapped around the block in serpentine like fashion. But tonight would be the last time. 

Talk Talk - “Spirit of Eden” Turns 30

Sep 17, 2018 By Timothy Michalik

"It was very, very psychedelic. We had candles and oil wheels, strobes going, sometimes just total darkness in the studio. You'd get totally disorientated, no daylight, no time frame." So goes the story, told by Talk Talk's engineer Phil Brown, when discussing the synth pop-turned-art rocker's landmark 1988 album Spirit of Eden.