Not to be overly dramatic, but music kind of chose me. I couldn’t not do it. I kept doing it, and I sucked really bad, but I kept getting better… Sitting across from Sam Burchfield – along with his bandmate, Zach Wells, and manager, Andy Kahn – in Ted’s Most Best, it occurs to me…
You may know him from his gig as the lead singer of The Walkmen for over a decade, but Hamilton Leithauser still has a lot to offer musically, even with the 2013 break up (okay, fine – “hiatus”) of his previous band. Now a solo artist, Leithauser has already released an album, Black Hours, under his own…
Murder By Death is a genre-defying, whiskey-soaked five-piece originally from Bloomingon, Indiana. They’ve graced us with six full-length albums and are gearing up to release a seventh (hu-freaking-zzah). I got a little phone time with Adam Turla (vocals, guitar) recently to talk about the album, as well as their upcoming tour dates (below – Athens readers,…
In a music town like Athens, GA, with an endless spread of bands accessible for your listening – and viewing – pleasure, it’s rare to find one that can distinguish itself from the pack. What’s even rarer is doing it before the members even graduate from high school! Monsoon has done just that. Started by Sienna Chandler…
Errbody knows that we at Vinyl Mag have love for Diarrhea Planet. I personally have vowed never to miss a show when they come around, seeing as how we’ve already established that they are the best live band you’ll ever see. The boys recently stopped by the Masquerade in Atlanta, GA and, since it’s been…
Apparently Hilary Duff is exploring all avenues of insanity these days. In her last video for “Chasing the Sun,” she was a schizophrenic co-worker with an affinity for confusing her office for a Malibu beach. Now, in her latest, “All About You,” she is an entirely different brand of mentally unstable. The somewhat forgettable song is about being totally…
This sucks. For those of you who, like me, still (and always will) hold on tightly to the early 2000’s sad-face music of your nobody-understands-my-pain adolescence, I’ve got some bad news. Death Cab for Cutie‘s own multi-instrumentalist/producer Chris Walla has called it quits. Walla released a statement via Slog about his departure, stating, “I think I long for…
A long time coming (even though I had no idea this was even happening), Lizzie McGuire Hilary Duff has finally released a new single called “Chasing the Sun.” Though it may not be “Come Clean,” and it’s definitely no “Hey Now,” it’s got a little something (not the least of which is Auto-Tune). Not only do…
On our last night of South by Southwest, we got a cleansing escape from the overwhelming crowd and bustle to head to the Graveface Records/Noisy Ghost PR showcase in the middle of nowhere in a secluded garden dreamland called Tillery Park. It was there that we came across dreamy duo The Stargazer Lilies who just got off of…
Local Natives graced us at Shaky Knees with their glorious presence on the final day of the fest, the last to play the Peachtree Stage before the day’s headliner, The Alabama Shakes. Luckily for us (and for you readers, actually), the band also graced us with an interview to discuss their too-short Shaky Knees experience,…