We all know the the 20 year rule, and by that rule the ’90′s are back with a vengeance. Enter Speedy Ortiz from the Boston DIY scene with their ’90′s reinvented sound. The group has released their first single “Tiger Tank” from [...]
The xx recently stopped by the NPR Music office for an intimate live performance as part of their Tiny Desk Concert Series. The band performed stripped down versions of “Angels” and “Sunset” in the intimate little performance area. [...]
Mercury prize winner Alt-J visited NPR’s All Things Considered to perform a few hits from their album The Awesome Wave in a Tiny Desk concert. [...]
The annual CMJ Music Marathon starts tomorrow, woah! But don’t sweat it, we’ve been done our homework so you don’t have to, finally getting around to listening to a ton of new and upcoming bands, and marking our calendars for what [...]
October 15, 2012
CMJ, Music
We’ve been prepping non-stop for our very first year at CMJ bringing you coverage of their annual Music Marathon in New York and earlier this week NPR launched their very own 24-hour CMJ preview channel, curated by nine college music [...]
October 11, 2012
Live Music, Music
LA three piece Bleached stopped by a food truck parking lot in Austin Texas last week to perform a stripped down version of their awesome track “Electric Chair” for NPR. [...]
We’re a week away from The Walkmen’s seventh full length release Heaven and the good folks over at NPR have the full album available to stream before it drops via Fat Possum. [...]
We’re waiting on pins and needles for Beach House’s new record Bloom which drops next Tuesday via Sub Pop, but the awesome people over at NPR have given us a chance to hear it a week early! [...]
Excited for Grimes debut album Visions to drop on February 21st via 4AD and Arbutus? Yeah, us too. But thanks to the good folks over at NPR, you can now stream it in full way ahead of schedule! [...]
Cults aren’t really in the habit of making lighthearted music videos to go along with their light pop tunes, and instead have perfected blending darker the undertones of their lyrics with a bittersweet finish. [...]
Just seven days before Real Estate prepares to drop their sophomore album Days, they’re streaming it in full for a few days on NPR. We’ve already heard “It’s Real” and “Green Aisles” and now we get to hear the full [...]
Much like Neon Indian, St. Vincent is a week out from releasing their latest album Strange Mercy and yet again the good folks over at NPR are hooking us up with a stream of the full album to preview. [...]
Not sure what you’ve been doing with your holiday weekend, but we were streaming Neon Indian’s latest heavy hitting electro-chillwave album Era Extraña thanks to the good folks over at NPR, who lately have been hooking us up with some [...]
Bon Iver’s Justin Vernon visited NPR’s World Cafe today to play a few songs live and chat with host David Dye about his music, the band, and their tour. [...]
Gaining steam off their very latest album release Shangri-La, YACHT visited NPR’s offices to be featured on the Tiny Desk Concert series. [...]