Posts by Danny Rooney

Torche is an ass-kicking quartet out of Miami led by guitarist/vocalist Steve Brooks. Their new track “Kicking” is the first song released off their upcoming album Harmonicraft due out April 24 on Volcom. Equal parts Weezer [...]

Category alternative pop, Indie Artists, Music, Music Discovery, New Music · Tags Dinosaur Jr, Harmonicraft, Kicking, Meanderthal, Music discovery, new music, Torche, Tour, Weezer

Alright, full disclosure time. The bassist of Yeesh is one of my best friends and we played in a band together in high school. But what that DOESN’T mean is that you SHOULDN’T listen to this band. Well, [...]

Category Indie Artists, Math rock, Music, Music Discovery, New Music, New York City · Tags airlab.am, Brooklyn, concerts, Music discovery, new music, new york, NYC, shows, vernous, yeesh

Mind Spiders kick-out little garage-punk pop hits from somewhere called Denton, Texas. Sonically, the band is nicely nestled between the jittering anxiety bursts of the late Jay Reatard and the reverb soaked freak-outs The Ponys have [...]

Category Garage rock, Indie Artists, Music, Music Discovery, New Music, Punk · Tags Jay Reatard, Meltdown, Mind Spiders, Music discovery, new music, Phil Spector, The Ponys, Wait For Us, You Are Dead

Happy Halloween everybody! To celebrate we’re posting the video for “Do They Know It’s Hallowe’en?” the anti ghoul’s night protest song by NAHPI (North American Halloween Prevention Initiative). Originally released back in 2005 (wow am I [...]

Category Indie Artists, Music · Tags Arcade Fire, Beck, David Cross, Feist, Halloween, Islands, NAHPI, sonic youth, Unicorns, Wolf Parade, Yeah Yeah Yeahs

Emeralds dude Mark McQuire released his latest solo effort Get Lost last week. The album serves as a soundtrack to a stoned sunny afternoon full of satisfyingly disorienting loops, warm acoustic strumming, and virtuosic guitar lines. His [...]

Category acoustic, Indie Artists, Music, Music Discovery, New Music · Tags Candy Shoppe, discover new music, Editions Mego, Emeralds, Get Lost, Mark McGuire, Music discovery, new music

After 27 years of marriage Thurston Moore and Kim Gordon of Sonic Youth are separating, leaving the future of one of the coolest, most influential, and prolific bands in jeopardy after a 30 year history together. [...]

Category Indie Artists, Music, News · Tags divorce, Goo, Kim Gordon, Kool Thing, Matador Records, music video, sonic youth, sonicyouth, Thurston Moore

Released last week, Forever is the first full length from Sleep ? Over. Originally a three-piece from Austin, two of the band’s members dropped out just prior to recording the album. Luckily, lone wolf Stefanie Franciotti picked up [...]

Category alternative pop, Indie Artists, indie pop, Music, Music Discovery, New Music · Tags Austin, Casual Diamond, Hippos in Tanks, new music, Romantic Streams, shoegaze, Sleep ? Over, Stefanie Franciotti

Today we’ve got the eponymous first album from hip-hop gurus Treesources. Straight out of Manhattan, beatmaster Modeez (Mike O’Donnell) and MC juxtapose (Dan McCormick) throw together some old school hip-hop evocative of the lit metropolis nights [...]

Category Hip-hop, Indie Artists, Music, Music Discovery, New Music, New York City · Tags bandcamp, hip hop, MC juxtapose, Modeez, new music, Treesources

Peace Museum (formerly Apache Kid) recently added members Daniel Quinn and Brendan Picone of Cosmonaut to the original duo of Gil Sunshine (yes, that is his real name) and Casey Feldman, and the group just released their [...]

Category Electro-pop, indie pop, Music, Music Discovery, New Music, New York City · Tags Apache Kid, Cosmonaut, digital single, January Jones, new music, Pax Msm, Peace Museum