Email Author Mikael Wood

2012 Stories by Mikael Wood

• SATAN'S CHILDREN

  published April 25, 2012

  England's WU LYF (World Unite Lucifer Youth Foundation) make a crescendo-rich indie-rock racket that shares some DNA with music by Explosions in... More >>

• Feist

  published April 25, 2012

  Canada’s premier art-pop purveyor has been through town a number of times since the release of last year’s Metals, but given... More >>

• Ane Brun

  published April 25, 2012

  This Norwegian singer spent a good chunk of 2011 working with Peter Gabriel on his dead-boring New Blood project, but fortunately... More >>

• Florence and the Machine

  published April 25, 2012

  Fresh off recent appearances at Coachella and on The Voice, Florence Welch and her always-reliable gospel-punk Machine hit Radio City for a... More >>

• GROWING UP

  published April 11, 2012

  LCD Soundsystem fans still mourning the premature death of that outfit could do worse than to throw in their lot with Tanlines, the Brooklyn-based... More >>

• Hot Chelle Rae

  published April 11, 2012

  Fronted by the sons of two prominent country-music songwriters, this tween-beloved Nashville outfit plays high-energy pop-rock that sounds like a... More >>

• Say Anything

  published April 11, 2012

  Back in Indieland after a surprisingly lengthy major-label stint, these obsessive-compulsive emo thinkers have a new one out called Anarchy, My... More >>

• SOUL SURVIVOR

  published April 11, 2012

  Michigan native Mayer Hawthorne executes his throwback r&b with so much period precision that a casual observer might assume the stuff was rescued... More >>

• Needtobreathe

  published April 11, 2012

  Something like the midpoint between Kings of Leon and the Civil Wars, these South Carolina folk-rock dudes spent much of last year opening arena... More >>

• New Edition

  published April 11, 2012

  On the road celebrating their 30th year in (and occasionally out of) business, the classic R&B boy band hits town with the six-man lineup of your... More >>

• Keith Sweat

  published April 11, 2012

  The R&B veteran recruited T-Pain for a cut on last year’s ’Til the Morning, one in which both men wonder how many licks it... More >>

• BITTERSWEET SYNTHONY

  published April 11, 2012

  It has been a busy month for Jonathan Pierce of the Drums, who just wrapped up a run in London as part of the all-star ensemble in an impossibly... More >>

• Suzanne Vega & Duncan Sheik

  published April 11, 2012

  Here’s a solid double-bill pairing two New York City songwriters doing fine work in a retrospective vein. Vega recently released the third... More >>

• 'John Wesley Harding's Cabinet of Wonders'

  published April 11, 2012

  The Dylan-indebted singer-songwriter reconvenes his regular music-and-literature confab with appearances tonight by writers including Rick Moody... More >>

• Daughtry

  published April 11, 2012

  As its title seems to suggest, last year’s Break the Spell didn’t quite rise to the pop-metal standard set by Daughtry’s... More >>

• The Naked and Famous

  published April 4, 2012

  The goofy name and Gossip Girl associations seem to have prevented this New Zealand synth-rock outfit from being taken seriously by... More >>

• BLACK MAGIC

  published April 4, 2012

  At 46, J Mascis has more going on right now than most of the indie-rock youngsters he has inspired: an upcoming Dinosaur Jr. album, a debut out... More >>

• The Horrors

  published April 4, 2012

  Last time I saw these London-based groovie ghoulies, they played a 20-minute headlining set before an audience of tattooed mosh-pit dudes. But... More >>

• Howler

  published April 4, 2012

  Titling a song “This One’s Different,” as Minneapolis’s Howler do on their new America Give Up, is one way to set... More >>

• SAY OUI

  published March 28, 2012

  Delightfully (if somewhat optimistically) described by their American record label as “the ultimate French electro-rock superhero... More >>

• READY, SET, LOOP

  published March 28, 2012

  Fresh from recent appearances at South by Southwest in Austin and at the Ultra Music Festival in Miami, U.K. beatmaker SBTRKT hits New York... More >>

• DARK VISIONS

  published March 21, 2012

  Last year was an unusually strong one for eccentric electro-pop ladies like Lykke Li and Zola Jesus, and with plenty of early buzz around Grimes... More >>

• SLUMBER PARTY

  published March 21, 2012

  Trevor Powers of Youth Lagoon knows what he’s doing: Last fall, this Idaho-based dream-pop dude titled his supremely sleepy debut The Year... More >>

• Nneka

  published March 21, 2012

  The daughter of a Nigerian father and a German mother, Nneka purveys globe-tripping grooves worthy of her complex heritage. Her new record,... More >>

• 'The Revlon Concert for the Rainforest Fund'

  published March 21, 2012

  A rear-balcony ticket (with partial view!) will set you back $150, but Sting and his wife, Trudie Styler, have put together a heck of a bill for... More >>