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If you show me a person who saw the picture above and wasn’t intrigued, I’ll show you a guy who doesn’t understand the finer points of brass instruments. And jean shorts. This song comes courtesy of Philadelphia-based band Power Animal, or, more accurately, the Philly-based collective Edible Onion. See, Edible Onion will be releasing a compilation [...] March 16th, 2010 | Tags: edible onion, female wrestler, female wrestler (less urban version), power animal | Category: MP3 |
 Leave a comment | Considering I know you guys don’t read any other music publication besides Knox Road, you might be asking, “Hey, Jon, what’s going on with those guys in The National?” Well, so much is going on with those guys in The National! We just haven’t covered it. So now it’s time for a supermegapost of information. [...] March 15th, 2010 | Tags: high violet, terrible love, the national, tracklist | Category: News, Video |
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It’s always nice to receive lovely ditties in the ol’ Knox Road mailbag, you know? You probably don’t know because you don’t often look at said Knox Road mailbag, but let me assure you: it’s always nice. Anyway! This is a song, “Grand Opening,” by Elephant Parade, a duo who [...] This week’s PVS was recommended to me by the incomparable Lee Levin (the one who writes for the site. THIS SITE!). It’s a very well-shot* video of KR favorites Wakey!Wakey! piling into a Brooklyn loft and covering Yeasayer’s “Ambling Alp.” The coolest thing about the video, besides the violin part that pretty much ties the [...] March 13th, 2010 | Tags: ambling alp, phenomenal video saturday, Wakey!Wakey!, Yeasayer | Category: Special, Video |
One comment | On Talking Through Tin Cans, the band’s last proper album, The Morning Benders didn’t seem to have any grand aspirations. “Damnit Anna” was a modest acoustic romp; “Crosseyed” was a Shins-y foray into acoustic pop; “Chasing a Ghost” added some electric elements rock to the formula. But Big Echo is different. The band wants the album [...] March 10th, 2010 | Tags: Big Echo, excuses, Talking Through Tin Cans, The Morning Benders | Category: MP3, New Album, Review |
Leave a comment | The Besnard Lakes are, in a way, everything, and their third album, Are the Roaring Night, is an illustration of this. The songs are dreamy and seem to expand outward, forever, carried by waves of atmospherics. Tracks are draped with falsetto vocals and snippets of distorted classic-rock guitar solos. Some songs build to reverb-drenched climaxes; [...] March 9th, 2010 | Tags: are the roaring night, Review, the besnard lakes | Category: MP3, Review |
Leave a comment | So guess what super-important awards show is on tonight? No, not the TVyNovelas awards, although that is super important. It’s the Oscars, silly! And this year is a really big one, because we all might have the opportunity to see The Blind Side win over, well, good movies in the Best Picture category. It’s thrilling [...] March 7th, 2010 | Tags: Week in Review | Category: Uncategorized, Week in Review |
Leave a comment | Don’t you just love when this happens? Back in, like, the dinosaur times (2008), Okkervil River released The Stand-Ins, and as a companion piece of sorts, had other bands cover the album’s songs. So they got Zykos for “On Tour with Zykos” and Ola Podrida for “Calling and Not Calling my Ex,” among others. Will [...] March 6th, 2010 | Tags: blue tulip, Bon Iver, Okkervil River, phenomenal video saturday, the stand-ins | Category: MP3, Special, Video |
Leave a comment | On 2008’s The Midnight Organ Fight, Frightened Rabbit was brash and blunt. Frontman Scott Hutchison Scottish-ed forth his lyrics (there’s no other way to say it, really), which themselves weren’t particularly rays of sunshine. And, above all else, the music never got too out of control. You had your guitars, keyboards, drums, and vocals, and [...] March 2nd, 2010 | Tags: Frightened Rabbit, nothing like you, Review, skip the youth, swim until you can't see land | Category: MP3, Review |
2 comments | Mumford & Sons, the totally not-American band who received #19 on our top albums of 2009 list, is totally coming to America for a string of dates in May and June. Personally, I find this exciting, even if the indie Illuminati don’t. To them I say — and excuse my French — please don’t come! Man. [...] March 1st, 2010 | Tags: little lion man, mumford and sons, Tour | Category: Concerts, MP3 |
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