The Lindsey Buckingham Appreciation Society: (clockwise from top left) Dave Wayne Daniels (bassist/vocalist for The Capitol Years), Eliza Hardy Jones (vocalist/keyboardist for Buried Beds), Patrick Berkery (drummer for Danielson, Pernice Brothers, Bigger

Naming your band after a character from a 1935 B movie suggests a certain willingness to borrow from yesteryear. The Jane Bradfords indubitably bow to the past, but their sound owes more to recent touchpoints, most notably American alt.rockers The Nation

The Lindsay Buckingham Appreciation Society is a Philadelphia-based collective of musicians who obviously hold a deep connection to Fleetwood Mac and the glory of their late-’70s/early-’80s glam pop. On Friday, a group of six folks from a smattering of d

This weekend brings an encore performance at Johnny Brenda’s by : a group of musicians and Fleetwood Mac aficionados from the Philadelphia region formed two years ago to play Tusk in its entirety. This time out, the group is tackling Mirage, the Mac’s mi

Kisses is the disco-ish side-project of Los Angeles's Jesse Kivel, who normally fronts the indie-pop outfit Princeton with his twin brother Matt. On the debut Princeton LP, The Heart of the Nightlife, Kivel sets sad indie songs to glitzy '70s-disco synth

With the GOP’s impending Florida primary dominating national discourse this week, California outfit Princeton come through with a finely cut indie-pop nugget well timed to ride some sweet politico SEO coattails. The title is pure synchronous coincidence,

Jens Lekman: Night Falls Over Kortedala Les Paul and Mary Ford: Best of the Capitol Masters Miles Davis: Kind of Blue The War on Drugs: Slave Ambient Kurt Vile: Smoke Ring for My Halo (2) Sharon Van Etten: Epic V/A: Play Music (Orange Sessions 2) Feist:

To read Robert Christgau's essay on this year's Dean's List picks, click here. 1. Das Racist: Relax (Greedhead) 2. Wussy: Funeral Dress II (Shake It) 3. Paul Simon: So Beautiful or So What (Hear Music) 4. Frank Ocean: Nostalgia, Ultra (free download) 5.

Four on the floor:Art by Peewee Bisnon MANILA, Philippines - W e’ve come a long way from a quicksand of an era when all we had going for our concert scene were either Stephen Speaks or Brian McKnight. Not that either lacked soul — no. There was soul but

Mozart. Classicism. Sausages. The Danube in the morning. Coffeehouses, philosophers and palaces. Tram bells and knee-deep snow. Provocative glances as dinner suits glide past wine-toting ball gowns (rapt in expensive conversation) at the state opera hous

In the video for “Like a Fading Rainbow,” singer Jenny Wilson creeps through a forest, wades barefoot through a grassy lake and ends up in a meadow with a band of mystical ragamuffins dancing a ritualistic circle around her. The fog tendrils around her f