The annual Rifflandia festival in Victoria, BC is always a eclectic celebration of the best indie music out there, and this year was no exception.
Tune into The Gunz Show tonight for interviews with Ron Pope and Chris Wallace (formerly of The White Tie Affair). 9PM ET
Death Cab for Cutie kicked off its U.S. tour last night with a stop at Philadelphia’s Tower Theater, a converted movie house with acoustics ready-made for frontman Ben Gibbard’s supernaturally clean and earnest whisper. Gibbard, recently engaged to fellow indie icon Zooey Deschanel, took the stage after solid performances from opening acts Cold War Kids and Ra Ra Riot and delivered an intimate solo rendition of “I Will Follow You Into the Dark” to a quiet, seated crowd. The rest of the band emerged and hit their stride with “The New Year,” a cut off of 2003’s “Transatlanticism” that ended… Read more »
Rock duo Tegan & Sara are about a third of the way through work on its next album, which is being produced by Death Cab For Cutie guitarist Chris Walla and recorded at his new studio in Portland, Ore. The as-yet-untitled set is expected later this year via Sanctuary. “When they asked me to do this, it was last March or April,” Walla tells Billboard.com. “A long time ago now. I got the demos pretty shortly thereafter, and those were my favorite record of 2006. It’s kind of crazy revisiting all the songs after living with the demos for so… Read more »
Featured properties: Interview with the Vampire, The Santa Clauses, Mind Your Manners, Alaska Daily, The Sex Lives of College Girls, Dead to Me, Gangs of London, Inside Job, Central Park
Who’s ready for a remix reload Geek Girl Riot featuring two of your fave topics? We revisit some of 2021’s biggest trainwrecks, before ringing that spoiler siren and getting into Invincible.
Shows featured: The Upshaws, Castlevania, Love, Death & Robots, Intergalactic, China: Nature’s Ancient Kingdom, The Nevers
Geek Girl Riot is back with another trainwrecks extravaganza, before getting into the epic battle of Godzilla vs. Kong.
This week: His Dark Materials, We are the Champions, Big Sky, Chicago Med, Holiday Home Makeover with Mr. Christmas, For Life, A Million Little Things, Trolls: Trollstopia, Voices of Fire, Animaniacs, The Pack, Small Axe, Between the World and Me, Dolly Parton’s Christmas on the Square, The 2020 AMAs
Basslines and Protest Signs is Brett Callwood’s column looking at the intersection of music and politics. This week talks about Richard Marx.
