Another Rainy Saturday

Dead Ship Sailing is a new band with two veteran Seattle songwriters (and married couple), Zera Marvel and Graig Markel. Together, they make reverb-heavy rock music, not entirely dissimilar from The Jesus and Mary Chain or The Raveonettes. It’s very catchy and irresistibly so. The photos that accompany each song they’ve made available on the band’s website [...]

  Not too long ago, I started to wonder about what the Swedish Cure-core band The Shout Out Louds were up to. That, in a roundabout way, led me to discovering that Shout Out Louds’ singer/guitarist Adam Olenius has a new band called Serenades. I’ve come to enjoy their music, though I haven’t been able to figure [...]

Big Deal are a new indie pop duo from the UK set to release their debut album, Lights Out, on Mute. The pair, Alice Costelloe and Kacey Underwood, were signed because of their catchy first single “Talk”. A lo-fi, acoustic pop song that was charming in its own right, perfectly likeable and easy to see why people (including those [...]

A few weeks ago, City Arts Magazine asked me to name what were my favorite musical discoveries of 2010 were (you can see my – and friends, peers and colleagues’ – ballot(s) – here). It had gotten me thinking of what bands and artists am I excited for in 2011. One of which is Youth [...]

Boombox Series // Jessie J from Arcade44.tv on Vimeo. I really loved this video and wanted to post it. It’s from a series of web videos called “Boombox Series” and this one features British pop singer/songwriter Jessie J singing during a crowded commute in a New York subway station. In the video, while Jessie J [...]