You have to love that the band Teith explains that their name is pronounced “Keith,” as in Carradine, Richards, and Sweat. Makes me laugh everytime. The Oak City EP is the re-release of the band’s demo that made the MySpace rounds a while back…
With the music market now offering paths that circumvent the mechanisms of the music industry entirely, bands have the option of sidestepping the dog-and-pony show of glossy 8x10s and vapid music videos. By the same token, it doesn’t hurt to have some quirk, kink, or outright gimmick…
On this single, Austin space-rock band My Education takes a piece of music originally written for piano and strings in the late 1970s and puts their own, updated — albeit somewhat traditional — spin on it. The result, “Spiegel im Spiegel,” is a peaceful, melodic song that ignores the traditional quiet-loud-quiet formula…
So, what happens when members of Tortoise, June of ’44, and The Boredoms get together and form a band? Probably not what you’d expect. Atsu Nagayama of Boredoms fame is the mastermind behind Sur la mer, composing the tracks on the EP…
With 5 Popes, Texas drone rockers My Education wowed critics and won legions of fans with their spacey, Britrock-influenced songs. With their latest EP, the aptly titled Moody Dipper, the band hopes to gain even more exposure…
The easiest verdict for an album is how many tracks you skip past. When you get a new CD and you only skip maybe two songs, even after repeated listens, that’s probably a sign of a damn good CD…
