October « 2009 « Knox Road

[MP3] New Tim Williams: “Murderous Air”

Since Jon’s post about a month ago, Tim Williams has been gaining a reputation as one of the best up-and-coming singer/songwriters the genre has to offer. Way to go Jon for predicting success, and way to go to Tim for the actual success! His music was recently featured on One Tree Hill – […]

Jon

Atlas Sound’s Logos is weirdly immersive in the best possible way

Did I make that album cover big enough for you? Well, I sure hope I did!

Atlas Sound is the side project of Bradford Cox, much of the creative force behind Deerhunter. On Logos, his second full length under the Atlas Sound moniker, he reaches deep into his trippy bag of tricks to […]

Lee

Kings of Convenience stay true to form on Declaration of Dependence

I’ll admit it – the Kings of Convenience make me jealous. Everything seems to come so easy to them. Intricate guitar arrangements and dissonant harmonies are like simple math. But it’s not like I get frustrated listening to their music. In fact, it’s rather the opposite; stressful situations call for Kings of Convenience. […]

Lee

[Video] Kings of Convenience: “The Boat Behind”

I only now stumbled across this Kings of Convenience video, which came out a month ago, for their song “Boat Behind”. I dare you not to feel nostalgic while watching this video much better suited for summer days than the wintry mix we’re coming upon in the U.S. Hopefully this gets you psyched for […]

Lee

We Are The Willows to release full-length album

We Are The Willows, the solo-project of singer/songwriter Peter Miller, will release A Collection Of Sounds And Something Like the Plague November 24. As a roster-mate of Bon Iver, Miller immediately elicited expectations of delicacy and raw art, and low and behold, We Are The Willows lives up to the billing.

We Are […]

Jon

Heading over to France for some Alcest

I’ve been on this weird awesome shoegazey post-rock kick over the past week or so. There’s just something about a hugely distorted wall of guitar noise, you know?

Anyway, this fellow from France goes by the name Neige, and records under the name Alcest. His early recordings had a black metal type sound […]

Lee

In Case You Missed It: Week in Review

Whew just got this one in on time! *Pretend I’m blogging from the West Coast.* Okay fine, I missed my deadline, but forgive me? Knox Road’s got a lot of great content coming up for you so hopefully we’ll make up for this little mishap and it’ll all be taken in stride. We […]

Lee

Knox Road Radio show and playlist for 10.18

Despite Jon’s odd proclamation of being jaded with music we still gushed over our playlist this week, mostly because of upcoming releases and such. You can listen to the entire show below! There’s banter, music, and more banter. Oh yeah, and Where The Wild Things Are.

Knox Road Radio 10.18.09 [MP3] (available until […]

Lee

Hawksley Workman finally set to release debut 2000 album, For Him and the Girls, in the U.S.

And not only that, he’s also announced a few tour dates in the U.S. as well (his first ones here since 2006!) Americans rejoice! A rocking Canadian, Hawksley Workman has been one of those artists that’s only slightly punctured the surface for me, simply because I haven’t had the opportunity to listen to […]