Whether you like rap, rock, classical or country, you’ll find your favorite music at the Thomas Crane Public Library in Quincy, MA.
Posted in Contemporary Folk, Folk, Indie, Vocal Pop on Aug 31st, 2010
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“Equal parts doo wop, vocal jazz, and Norman Rockwell-era Americana, Love to Live is a product of another time, an album that wouldn’t seem out of place on the phonograph of some postwar American living room.”–All Music Guide
Posted in Alt Rock, Indie, Soul, Vocal Pop on Aug 31st, 2010
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“The Sea is a testament to Rae’s artistic growth as it provides comfort to those left on the wistful side of eternal love, and insight to those who are not.”–All Music Guide
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“Simmering more than it strikes, High Violet coaxes you into baroque indie darkness rather than shines bright pop lights. But the National inevitably make that bleakness sound incredibly seductive and impossibly cool. That’s the National’s insidious brilliance: No other band makes dark and stormy seem like ideal weather.”–Spin
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“Compass is actually the former Super_Collider frontman’s funkiest outing yet, with no shortage of booty-shaking bass, gritty drum grooves, or gnarly vintage-keyboard textures…The expansive supporting cast here includes Beck, Chilly Gonzales, and Nikka Costa.”–The Phoenix
Posted in Alt Rock, Dance & DJ, Electronica, Indie on Aug 31st, 2010
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“The long songs reveal Murphy’s bottom-line agenda: He’s still a dance guy at heart, and he knows it’s his job to ignite parties and clubs. But he approaches dance music more like a folkie singer-songwriter than a DJ, as a vehicle for storytelling and confession. So crank up the music, and move your [...]
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“Alex Ebert and his band hark back to a carefree age of patchouli and bell-bottoms on their debut. This is intoxicating psych-indie for heady days in unbroken sunshine.” — The Observer
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“On “Minor Love,’’ Green’s sixth solo record, he proves adept as ever traversing through the American popular songbook and filtering his findings through a hazy stoner’s smog of absurdity.” –Boston Globe
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“The band’s lack of a defining musical style has proven an advantage here, as frontman Damian Kulash and co. were clearly able to explore their boundaries, unconfined by audience expectations…and this dancefloor-baiting synth-funk sound seems like a more exciting direction for the band. One gets the feeling that, while this probably won’t be [...]
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“Screaming Females combine scorching guitars with a firmly D.I.Y. approach to create their own brand of indie rock. Mixing equal parts Dinosaur Jr. and Sleater-Kinney, the Brunswick trio…strives to embody the spirit of indie rock in its purest form.” –All Music Guide
Posted in Alt Rock, Electronica, Indie on May 15th, 2010
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“These tracks are so sleek, they’re practically sculptural…This restraint and sophistication make the fact that the xx’s members were barely in their twenties when they recorded the album all the more impressive; artists twice their age would be proud to call the maturity and confidence that flow seemingly effortlessly through the xx their [...]
Posted in Alt Rock, Alt-Country, Indie on May 15th, 2010
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“The Mumlers take their name from a 19th-century man who claimed he could photograph spirits. So probably the least contentious point of comparison between the California sextet and its namesake is that the Mumlers’ Don’t Throw Me Away is also haunted by ghosts. The crisp, direct start to the album verges on aggressive [...]
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“In the Dark is the best album the Foo Fighters never made…a guilty pleasure for anyone raised on grunge.”–All Music Guide
Posted in Alt Rock, Country Rock, Hard Rock, Indie, Southern Rock on May 12th, 2010
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“The Drive-By Truckers have been the best and smartest hard rock band in America for a while now, but with The Big To-Do they also confirm they’re one of the bravest, and they’ve created a triumphant album out of songs in which folks are forced to look failure square in the eye.” –All [...]
Posted in Alt Rock, Indie, Metal, Rock/Pop on May 10th, 2010
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The fourth album from the Atlantia, Georgia rock band features songs about the murder of Rasputin.
“The album will be attractive to head bangers, math rockers, and now even classic-rock devotees thanks to guitarists Brent Hinds’s and Bill Kelliher’s deep devotion to the almighty riff.”–Boston Globe
Posted in Alt Rock, Celtic Rock, Indie, Rock/Pop on May 10th, 2010
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“Comprised of 20 electrifying songs recorded over several days during the band’s annual sold-out St. Patrick’s Day shows, and featuring guest appearances from the Mighty Mighty Bosstones, Liza Graves, Rock Solid String Section, Bunker Hill Pipe Band, and the Forbes Academy of Irish Dance (as well as an accompanying DVD of the mayhem), [...]
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“It sounds like it was worth the wait for Sandoval and O’Ciosoig and it’s a welcome return for fans of her music, and also for fans of late-night, melancholy balladry that will break your heart and ease you gently into dreams.”–All Music Guide
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“The most thoroughly engaging entry in the Dirty Projectors catalog and one of the most singularly engrossing albums likely to be released this year, a triumph in sustained creative restlessness.”–Paste Magazine
“The only thing Dirty Projectors’ fifth album leaves me wishing for is a fifth rating star to wedge in.”–The Phoenix
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“…A musical wanderer’s dusty, train-hopping tour through folk, blues, and country. His voice, as beautifully cracked and worn as old leather, belies the meticulousness of the production —it takes a lot of work, no doubt, to sound this effortless.”–Entertainment Weekly
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“Little about Embryonic is clear-cut or straightforward — these noisy, pensive, sometimes meandering songs take awhile to decipher and often feel like they’re still in the process of becoming. These very qualities, however, make these songs some of the Flaming Lips most haunting and intriguing music in some time.”–All Music Guide
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“What makes Broken Bells such a compelling body of work is undeniably the result of the broad range of sounds that fill its palette. Although there are instances whereby each of the two conspirators come to the forefront, at no point does this sound like a Shins record with beats or a hip [...]