by John Grimley

Rival Schools Release New Video

Rival Schools have been hard at work on a shiny new album, which they are calling Pedals. The group took a break from touring with Gaslight Anthem to record a music video off of Pedals for your viewing pleasure.

Although it’s been almost a decade since Rival Schools released their influential debut United By Fate the music video shows that the band as been focused on tightening their sound and improving.

You can find Pedalsfor sale this March (the 8th, actually) on Photo Finish/Atlantic Records.

Catch the first video for the song “Shot After Shot” right here.

10.06.10

by John Grimley

Tapes ‘N Tapes Are Back!

Tapes 'n Tapes Prep New Album

Minneapolis-darlings Tapes ‘n Tapes have been somewhat quiet these past couple of years, with no major announcements and the group’s last full album being 2008’s Walk It Off.

Now the band is making noise, and lots of it.

Their newest album, Outside, will be released January 11th on a shiny new label.

Ibid Records (Tapes ‘n Tapes own record label) is being relaunched to release their latest CD, and we’ve got the track list right here for you.

Outside will look like this…

01 Badaboom
02 SWM
03 One in the World
04 Nightfall
05 Desert Plane
06 Outro
07 Freak Out
08 The Saddest of All Keys
09 Hidee Ho
10 People You Know
11 On and On
12 Mighty Long

09.30.10

by jdtorres

Colin Caulfield is a Growin’ ‘Boy’

colin You may have not heard of Colin Caulfield, he is still ready to tell you his story. Or rather, stories. The young singer-songwriter, going by the moniker Young Man, has just released his debut EP Boy. He’s also just released the live video for “Just a Growin.’”

Caulfield has started a growing arnsel of music, a mixture of both originals and covers. With his first venture out on his own, he’s turned to writing about himself and the basic troubles of growing up. Check out the video of Caulfield crooning on “Just A Growin’” below.

Young Man – Just A Growin’ (Live) from Nathaniel Gravely on Vimeo.

Boy is digitially out now via iTunes and will be physically released October 12th.

09.16.10

by jdtorres

Bjørn Torske’s New Album Due Out in November

Just because you can’t understand what’s being said or what you’re reading, doesn’t mean that you can’t understand the feeling and pure creativity behind the sound. Case in point, Norway’s very own Bjørn Torske.

Armed with his sophomore release on Smalltown Supersound, Torske is continuing on his task to bring his
“skranglehouse” genre to the masses. And by skranglehouse, we mean Torske’s Norwegian take on dub step meets house music with everything else thrown in.

The nine-track album is sure to turn any room into an underground disco/dance floor, which just maybe Torske’s ultimate goal.

Torske’s album Kokning is due out Nov. 2 via Smalltown Supersound.

09.15.10

by John Grimley

Crystal Stilts To Release New Single, Album To Follow

Brooklyn-based Crystal Stilts have been working tirelessly since their debut album, Alight Of Night debuted in 2008.

The group has toured Europe and the United States and released the excellent 7″ Love Is A Wave. The entire time, the group has been experimenting with their sound and looking for ways to expand on their gothic blues/punk and ’60s pop inspirations.

Now the band is getting ready to release a follow up EP to the critical darling Alight, and are excited to show people what all their experimentation and hard work were for.

The EP (Shake The Shackles) will be out October 26th. It will just have to tide you over until Crystal Stilts give us a new album, sometime in 2011. You can listen to two songs from the EP right here.

“Shake The Shackles”

“Magnetic Moon”

07.12.10

by Jane Lambert

New Strokes Album Pushed Back. Again.

Whenever we get closer to a new album by The Strokes, they seem to get delayed. Can we have a colllective “UGH”? The date has been pushed back again for the upcoming fourth record that was originally supposed to be out this fall. Now it has a tentative release date of March 2011. Singer Julian Casablancas has been talking about it in interviews and he doesn’t seem to quite have the passion he once did for the band. Though, this has all been judged out of the tone of his voice. As for what he says, Casablancas stated on BBC 6 that this album will be the most collaborative piece that the band has ever done, and it also halfway finished. He is quoted saying the album is “something that I hope works and I hope everyone loves and makes everyone happy.” When talking about The Strokes future, he stated “Let’s make sure no one tries to stab me or something.” Is this serious or Casablancas sarcasm and wit? I guess we’ll have to wait to find out.