Summer is over, but we’re not sweating autumn. No, we’ve got some fine albums to look forward to, starting tomorrow with a new dose of tunes from one of our favorite bands, Ha Ha Tonka. Let’s all celebrate falling leaves, pumpkins, candy corn, and the dozen upcoming albums listed below! Ha Ha Tonka, Lessons (9/24) HAIM, Days Are … Read more
All photos by Tim Bottchen Vampire Weekend, or “Vampy Weeks,” as I heard someone call them recently, played to a sold-out audience at The Pageant on Tuesday evening. Singer-songwriter Sky Ferreira opened the show. VW’s set consisted of — you guessed it — lots of hooks and songs from their latest album, Modern Vampires of … Read more
As a child of 34, I juuuuust barely remember when the genre now defined as “eighties music” was still fresh ‘n new, and playing nonstop on MTV’s actual music video stream. And then, for a few decades, that shit was passe. No one got near those sounds that Thomas Dolby, B.C. Rich and Floyd Rose … Read more