Email Author SARAH MADGES

2012 Stories by SARAH MADGES

• The Budos Band

  published May 9, 2012

  Daptone’s The Budos Band jumped on the funk revivalism bandwagon and made it their own with Ethiopian-tinged instrumentation and sixties... More >>

• Bear in Heaven

  published April 25, 2012

  Brooklyn-based Bear in Heaven dress up krautrock’s moody prog feel with the shimmering synths and throbbing bass of club stompers. With hazy... More >>

• Yann Tiersen

  published April 11, 2012

  It’s tempting to just list a series of adjectives when someone asks, “Who’s Yann Tiersen?” but to save time I usually... More >>

• Our Lady Peace

  published April 4, 2012

  Canadian alt-rockers Our Lady Peace had been playing for 10 years before the 2002 release of Gravity, the album whose single... More >>

• Japanther+Cerebral Ballzy

  published March 21, 2012

  Ian Vanek and Matt Reilly make a hell of a lot of noise for two people: With a sampler/drum machine, pounding drums, fuzzed-out bass, and... More >>

• Kid Koala

  published March 21, 2012

  As Kid Koala, Canadian DJ Eric San melds clips from TV, sketch comedy, performance art, Cantonese menus, and—somewhere in there—samples... More >>

• Why?

  published March 7, 2012

  Not quite hip-hop and not quite anything else, Why? mixes dense melodies with Yoni Wolf’s near-sneer delivery, kinesthetic atmospherics, and... More >>

• Eisley

  published March 7, 2012

  A family quartet from Texas, Eisley is Chauntelle, Sherri, Stacy, and Weston Dupree, and although they’ve been furiously writing their... More >>

• Chevelle

  published February 22, 2012

  Taking the gothic pop sensibility of the Cure and adding the dark magnetism of Tool (but without the later band’s cerebral experimentalism),... More >>

• Robbers on High Street

  published February 22, 2012

  Brooklyn quintet Robbers on High Street come from a time when “indie rock” wasn’t so ubiquitous as to be almost devoid of... More >>

• Less Than Jake

  published February 15, 2012

  Since releasing their first major record (Pezcore in 1995), Gainesville hit-makers Less Than Jake have perfected the third-wave ska of... More >>

• Flogging Molly

  published February 15, 2012

  Seven-piece Celtic punk band Flogging Molly take their roots in booze, Irish history, poverty, politics, death, love, and the Roman Catholic... More >>

• Regina Spektor

  published February 15, 2012

  A Russian-American singer-songwriter known for her quirky style (including dolphin-esque squeaking and beatbox-type riffing inserted into... More >>

• Cate Le Bon

  published February 1, 2012

  With her downright haunting voice and death-driven lyrics, Cate Le Bon has often been accused of Thanatos. That’s fair, but rather than... More >>

• The Kills

  published February 1, 2012

  Alison “VV” Mosshart and Jamie “Hotel” Hince of the Kills were doomed White Stripes comparisons the minute this boy/girl... More >>

• Aimee Mann

  published January 25, 2012

  Aimee Mann isn’t just good at cleaning the Portlandia crew’s house and putting on a cozy show in their living room—though... More >>

• Jenny Owen Youngs

  published January 25, 2012

  Jenny Owen Youngs graduated from self-releasing to label-signing after the show Weeds featured her beautiful downer, “Fuck Was... More >>

• Mirah

  published January 25, 2012

  Usually a solo performer, Bala Cynwyd-born Mirah's most recent work features Thao Nguyen, a performer who brings an extra touch of experimental... More >>

• Laura Gibson

  published January 18, 2012

  Singer-songwriter Laura Gibson went from strumming nylon strings for the bedridden to recording with fellow Portland projects such as the... More >>

• Fujiya & Miyagi

  published January 11, 2012

  Brighton blokes Fujiya & Miyagi take a page from the Krautrock school of electronic ambience while adding pithy lyrics sung in an almost... More >>

• Nada Surf

  published January 11, 2012

  It's fittingly ironic that the single “Popular” made '90s rockers Nada Surf exactly that, with singer-guitarist Matthew Caws’s... More >>

• My Brightest Diamond

  published January 4, 2012

  Rock and Roll Hall Of Fame inductees The O’Jays have seven gold discs to their name and were honored with BET’s Life Time Achievement... More >>