If you’ve been over to the redesigned Pitchfork site this week, you will have noticed that they are finally starting to give a bunch of attention to Pitchfork TV. It always kind of seemed like Pitchfork TV was the bastard step-child of the family — they rarely mentioned it, and, in fact,...

LoveLikeFire is a San Francisco-based band that WOXY fell in love with a couple of years ago but, for whatever reason, I really never got into. Well, the band is back with a brand-new iTunes-only EP on March 23rd, and the first track is pretty damn good. Check it out. LoveLikeFire, “Signs̶...

Well crap, that was pretty much a snooze-fest. Guess I shouldn’t have been too surprised, given that Lisa’s debut album, Sea Sew, was a pretty low-key affair. But I was always a huge fan of Lisa’s live performance back in the day with Damien Rice, and I also knew that 1/2 of her li...

My friend Sal was just remarking the other day how it was surprising that the annual Mess With Texas show hadn’t been announced yet. Well, it has now, and it’s AWESOME — Cursive, Thermals, Circle Jerks, Black Lips, Vivian Girls, Thao Nguyen, Jason Lytle, Vetiver, etc. etc. It’...

Just caught this via the @AntiRecords Twitter… Neko Case has announced dates for the second leg of her national tour, this time through the West Coast and the Bonnaroo Festival in June. She’ll be supported by Jason Lytle, formerly of Grandaddy. Presale tickets for most of the shows are a...

So Motel Motel was really good, despite having some technical issues and a slightly shortened set. Very glad I got tipped to them a couple of days ago. They played a bunch of songs they said were new (I had to take them at their word), most of which had a much stronger Americana feel to them than I ...

Prisonshake, “Crush Me” I’d never heard of Prisonshake until a day or two ago when my friend Sal mentioned them in an email.  Now, however, I find myself listening to their latest album, Dirty Moons, essentially on repeat. Who is Prisonshake, you ask? Prisonshake began in 1986 out...

So reader Jumbo Slice (of the excellent DC Rock Club blog) raises a very good question about my 100 Bands in March Challenge: Are there any ground rules? For example, what happens if you see a band at SXSW play two sets? Does that count as one or two? Do you need to see a band play more than one son...

A while ago, my friend Hunter from the band Julie Ocean proposed a challenge. He’d heard me talk about how I missed being in New York and having a ton of bands to choose from every night of the week, and how too many bands that I like tend to skip DC in favor of Baltimore (I’m looking at...

I admit it… I’ve fallen head over heels for The Deep Vibration. Maybe it’s because I’m suffering from Wilco withdrawal after a couple of years without an album. Maybe it’s because high quality “Americana” is so hard to come by these days. Or maybe it’s...