In the Danish band Choir of Young Believers, there are many singers. Half of the near-dozen members on This Is for the White in Your Eyes (Tigerspring), the group’s European debut album, contribute backing vocals. ...
It is not patronising to call the Cocktail -Slippers ”“ five women from Norway who make their own garage-rock racket and sing their you-done-me-wrong songs with avenging-angel-army harmonies ”“ a girl group. It’s straight shooting. ...
“Every song, every word, everything I write, every part of the music ”“ I completely throw myself into it,” Billie Joe Armstrong says, sitting in a soft chair in the downstairs den of his home. ...
New Sounds of Olde England History keeps repeating itself on Carbeth (Honest Jon’s), the intoxicating debut album by Trembling Bells. The English-Scottish quartet essentially revive an earlier revival: the rediscovery and amplification, in the Sixties ...
A Lone Fleet Fox In a city of cacophony ”“ Austin during SXSW ”“ the sweetest sound is often the one you strain to hear. Fleet Foxes drummer-singer J Tillman was a paragon of near-silence ...
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