Ladyhips - Live at Farmtone EP

Ladyhips return with their new EP Live at Farmtone. These guys have taken their immense skill and decided to explore some of the fringes of genre and songwriting, and they pull it off with ease!

Track Premier: Ladyhips - The Crows

I hear the Ladyhips are working on new recorded material! While we all salivate for it, they have decided to give us a new/old track, an unreleased song from their 2012 "Best Friends" sessions, called The Crows. This is a much more serious and dramatic song than we are used to from Ladyhips and further shows off their versatility and experimentalism.

Direct from the band:

"This track was recorded back in 2012, during the "Best Friends" sessions. Our good pal ended up moving to Tennessee soon after "Best Friends" was finished. As a result, this song sat on the back-burner for quite some time before we sent it off to be mastered.. This song was written while Sean was happing sleeeeeeeeep issues..
We hope you enjoy this tune! It's definitely a step away from a lot of our other material and a great look into how experimental the band was during their first experience in the studio."

If you are up in Putnam you should go see Ladyhips at The Stomping Ground March 15. Here is the link to the Facebook Event Page!

ENJOY

Comets - Fire The Wake Up Call LP

The Gentle Police? Werewolf Stunts? No, it's Comets! Tynan Cooney and Cal McNamara make for a perfect duo on Comets debut LP "Fire The Wake Up Call"

Buck McGrane - Fire On Main Street (Single)

Buck McGrane is back with a new single from his forthcoming album "A Prima Vista", which should be ready in the spring.

VIOLENT MAE

This past spring a band called Violent Mae sent us a track to premier called "Hole In My Heart". It was and still is a stellar track that covers so many bases musically and stylistically that it's kind of intimidating. Sometimes a band will come out with a song and tease that they could be the best band you have ever heard. Sometimes a band will make that level of promise to you. Only through hard work, determination, a discerning ear and a little luck could a band like Violent Mae make an album that lives up to the potential promised in their first single "Hole In My Heart". Luckily all of those things have clearly come to pass.

Lys Guillorn record release show 11/9 @ Heirloom Arts Theater

Lys Guillorn is back with a new LP called "Winged Victory" and a release show for the album on November 9th at The Heirloom Arts Theater in Danbury!

The Backyard Committee - Festival video

The Backyard Committee have a new video for their track "Festival". Check it out below!

MV & EE w/ Kath Bloom @ LIPGLOSS CRISIS 9/10

Another awesome show at LIPGLOSS CRISIS, this time with MV & EE and Kath Bloom!

Hubbell Mountain - Stereoscope

Visceral and exciting, Hubbell Mountain’s new album, illustrated by the well-known LA artist Brendon Monroe (good freaking grab, guys, I love his work), grabs us by the chest and digs its roots deep inside us. With hi-fi precision and ingenious production quality, this [virus] collection next fuses with our arteries and starts to pump its serious mind-numbing juices into our bloodstream, and finally, after trying to rip our own hearts out, to no avail I assure you, it drowns us in its own frothy, pneumonic harmony; lulling us to our final sleep in a bath of melancholic and deeply personal dreams.

"Keep It In Good Shape" - An Interview with Brian Grochowski

Brian Grochowski is a real renaissance man. One could say he has his finger in a lot of pies. I had the opportunity to ask Brian some questions about all the bands he is in, as well as some of the details of his "1 album a month for the rest of 2013" project.

Ladyhips play The Stomping Ground August 16

Everyone favorite pop masterminds Ladyhips are playing one of my favorite spots on the planet, The Stomping Ground up in the quiet corner of the state, Putnam!

Jacket Thor - Sirens Will Guide Me

So I’m out in Rhode Island for the week horse and housesitting, and this album, Jacket Thor's Sirens Will Guide Me, has been dominating half of my music listening here. Zen like an afternoon nap, these songs can get me going in the midst of most anything; seriously, its borderline virtually impossible to be unhappy while listening to them, even when the lyrics are pointing to death and our inevitable and constant existential crisis.

Sallie Ford & the Sound Outside + Daphne Lee Martin @ The Oasis Pub 7/19

I AM Fest is bringing awesome shows to CT all summer! This Friday brings Sallie Ford & The Sound Outside, and New London favorite Daphne Lee Martin!

A Paper Tugboat - Don't Race The Sun video

A Paper Tugboat have a new video for their song "Dont Race The Sun". Take a look below!!!

Flaming Lips & Spiritualized @ Oakdale Theatre on 7/15

So The Flaming Lips and Spiritualized will be playing at the Oakdale Theatre in Wallingford. This is a weird one and will be their only east coast performance for this tour they are on.

Herff Jones - The Mercury Floor

This review of Herff Jones' The Mercury Floor, was submitted by guest columnist Maxx Hillery. Enjoy his review below:

Herff Jones has recently released their second EP, The Mercury Floor, whose radically eclectic offering makes it even more challenging to place them within the comfortable confines of a genre. I honestly couldn't figure out where to place this band, maybe the strange lo-fi lovechild of The Hush Sound and Andrew Bird? No, probably not. The female singers’ voice is reminiscent of Haley Williams’, but their style is not (at all), especially during the more hard-hitting songs that sport a sort of experimental punk-influence. Regardless, the harmonies of the two singers work so well that I could not care less what genre they happen to place themselves in, which, as mentioned in CTIndie’s review of their last EP, is ‘Alternative Rock?’

The Gentle Stunts\Celebrations\Far From In-Between\The Joint Chiefs of Math @ The Space 6/25

The Gentle Stunts are back! I hear they are working diligently on an LP follow up to last years brilliant "Life-Size Deadbeats", but for now you can sample old songs and new when they play The Space on Tuesday with Celebrations, Far From In-Between and The Joint Chiefs Of Math.

Dan Verner of Monster Eats Pilot - Interview

In the wake of Sneaky Castro Dan Verner has crafted another rock and roll machine, Monster Eats Pilot. With a combination of Alternative, Grunge, soul, and low down and dirty rock and roll Monster Eats Pilot has released a new album called “Extended Unicorn Play”.  Check out what Dan had to say, and check out Monster Eats Pilot on the information superhighway. www.facebook.com/monstereatspilot

An Evening with Great Caesar, José Oyola & the Astronauts, Giorgio Fareira @ Lyric Hall on 5/31

The beautiful and intimate Lyric Hall is hosting a classy show this Friday featuring José Oyola & The Astronauts, Great Caesar and Giorgio Fareira!

Shale track review - III

Shale's track "III" off of their eponymous debut is a slow burning and beautiful song. It sounds a little like Karate, Gastr Del Sol and American Analog Set. Pretty harmonics and violins accessorize this weighty tune, which swells and becomes fat with saturation at the end. Thunderous and brilliant drums blast out and settle with dual vocal melodies.
It is worth noting that this band features former members of Fugue and midi.
Beautiful album art to boot!