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B-Sides: Myths

by Mel Mundell on August 30, 2012 at 10:12am

Vancouver, BC-based electroccult female duo MYTHS will enchant cities across the US and Canada on The Mythical Gymnastics Tour w/ Grimes and Elite Gymnastics. Don’t miss this!

B-Sides: Waxahatchee for the Changing Seasons

by Mac Pogue on August 21, 2012 at 11:25am

Temperatures are still in the mid 90s and the sun’s still setting after eight o’clock, but we need to brace ourselves for the eventual changing of the seasons. Luckily, we’ve got the perfect cure for, or accompaniment to, the end-of-summer blues: Brooklyn’s Katie Crutchfield, better known as Waxahatchee. Her quiet tape echo ballads seem borne of the universe found sandwiched between two sheets and covered by a well-worn duvet.

B-Sides: In Defense of New Jersey, Screaming Females

by Devyn Manibo on August 14, 2012 at 1:14pm

One fateful evening in a kitchen in Brooklyn in the winter of 2008, I stood leaning on a window, freezing air seeping into the sweaty room. A woman emerged from the bathroom wearing a modest black dress with a white collar. In the smallest voice, she said, “We’re Screaming Females and we’re from New Jersey.” My eyes lit up.

B-Sides: Laetitia Sadier's New Album is as Political as it is Pretty

by Kjerstin Johnson on August 7, 2012 at 3:09pm

Laetitia Sadier, who some may know as the bilingual frontwoman of ’90s indie-rock band Stereolab, just dropped her second solo album, Silencio, a couple weeks ago on Drag City. Sadier’s vocals were one of my favorite things about Stereolab, always melding perfectly with their synth-driven songs, still bright and melodic while hitting minor or dischordant notes. Stereolab fans will not be disappointed with Silencio (Tim Gane, Stereolab’s other front person, joins the album as well). The album has plenty of atmospheric pop songs, washes of sound carried by guitars and bossa nova beats, English and French lyrics over synth and moogy notes. But while it’s easy to drift through the album, there’s a lot more going on lyrically and politically on Silencio.

B-Sides: Still Stompin' Strong

by Devyn Manibo on July 31, 2012 at 12:05pm

I first saw Tilly and the Wall some years ago at the Knitting Factory in New York. I had never been so immediately entranced by any band, nor had I ever seen so many feathers and balloons on a stage. They quickly became one of my favorites, but then one day, shortly after their Summer 2008 release O, they dropped off the face of the Earth. Whew, has it seriously been four years since we last heard from Tilly and the Wall? Yes, yes it has. So, needless to say, I actually yelped when I heard that Omaha’s own stomping, tapping, clapping babes have a new album called Heavy Mood, being released on Team Love on October 2nd. “But but but, that’s so long from now!” Well, good thing we have a couple of sweet new tracks to hold us over. New songs, album tracklist, and tour dates after the jump!

B-Sides: Goat and the Feather

by Katie Presley on July 25, 2012 at 11:16am

The advent of Garage Band as a major media outlet for musicians and songwriters has provided a great many opportunities for the reinvention of the earnest acoustic wheel in the last five years or so. Shane and Essy are not reinventing that wheel. They are not inventing twang, they are not inventing milky-smoky vocals, they are not inventing dusty-country-roads guitar accompaniment. But they are making all of those older invetions look (and sound) real good-like.

B-Sides: Potty Mouth!

by Mac Pogue on July 17, 2012 at 11:41am

It’s easy to imagine that Potty Mouth are, er, a gross band, but a quick listen to their Sun Damage EP reveals them to be far from indecent. The record is a letter of intent addressed directly to the dead-serious post-punk set, citing ’90s punk clatter as relevant education.

B-Sides: Regina Spektor, "What We Saw From the Cheap Seats"

by Katie Presley on July 3, 2012 at 1:21pm

Listening to What We Saw from the Cheap Seats, the sixth studio album from real-life Manic Pixie Dream Girl Regina Spektor, is a pretty philosophical experience. Spektor has done a lot of changing. Her music has changed, her career has changed (read: exploded), her audience has changed (read: used to be some people, is now ALL OF THE PEOPLE). But she’s also done a fair amount of staying exactly the same. This isn’t going to be a wistful post from a longtime fan, bemoaning the loss of an indie darling to the riptide of the mainstream. I promise. But Cheap Seats, as it turns out, are where you get the best view of the big picture.

Bitch Popaganda: I'll Have What She's Having

by Kelsey Wallace on June 29, 2012 at 6:08pm

Welcome back to another episode of Bitch Popaganda! Tune in as Andi, Julie, Kristin, and Kelsey discuss the ethics of writing for free, the legacy of Nora Ephron, and the thongs of Magic Mike.

B-Sides: White Lung's White-Hot "Sorry"

by Mac Pogue on June 26, 2012 at 11:59am

Sometime between White Lung’s first record, It’s the Evil, and their second, Sorry, the band blew up. Maybe it’s because of the rock writing of singer Mish Way, who proves that not all Vice writers are raging douchebags. Maybe it’s how Way sweats off things like a broken face. But really, it’s probably the fact that Sorry rips like few other punk records this year, and, lucky you, you can stream it right here.