In part two of our interview with Biffy Clyro, the band talks subconscious nerves and being joined at the hip.
What better way to kick off a weekend than with new music? Featuring new tracks from The Maine, Halsey, Gorillaz, and more.
Our writers weighed in on what bands not only have the best beach bash tunes, but would also be the life and soul of the ultimate (and currently imaginary—we’re working on it) summer beach party.
Neil Gaiman x Junot Díaz, The Sandman comics, and Death.
Losing yourself in a ten-hour marathon of your favorite tv show is always fun, but it’s even more fun when you suddenly wake from your reverie at the sounds of some unknown, perfect song emerging from the speakers. For this week’s Tuesday Ten, we asked our writers about ten songs they fell in love with after hearing them on tv.
If you aren’t yet familiar with W.C. Lindsay, now is the time to get on board. idobi writer Alyssa Dempsey talked with frontman Will Lindsay about working with Big Footprints Records, the thrill of a live show, and the upcoming album Easy Victim, Charitable Deceptions.
2014 is already shaping up to be an insane year for music, and some of our favorite bands are on their way to huge things this year. For our inaugural Tuesday Ten column, check out our list of ten bands you need to have your eyes and ears on in 2014.
If a listener ever found himself or herself in need of an album to narrate their life story at the point where they’re staring up at the sky asking the big questions of life, Satellite’s Calling Birds may be the one.
DELETED SCENES HAVE been working on their debut album, “Birdseed Shirt,” for a long time – at least in indie-rock years. Having recorded the basic tracks at Magpie Cage studio in Baltimore in September 2007, the D.C.-born quartet spent roughly 10 months mixing, tweaking and re-tweaking the album. In that time, three members of Deleted Scenes relocated to Brooklyn and two of them have come a few hairs away from completing graduate degrees. Luckily, “Birdseed Shirt” was worth the group’s relative struggle to finish it. The songs Deleted Scenes recently posted to their MySpace page are surprisingly ambitious – delicately… Read more »
Michael Roberts: For all of the articles that have been written about you guys, very few of them have very much biographical information. It’s as if you were born at Columbia when you were twenty. So I thought I’d try getting some actual facts. Where are you from originally? Ezra Koenig: Well, originally, I was born in New York. My parents lived on the Upper West Side. But I have no memory of living here, because I almost totally grew up in Northern New Jersey, in the suburbs of New York. MR: Tell me about your parents. What jobs did… Read more »
