Christopher Anthony Toronto’s renowned indie rock band Dinosaur Bones has revealed details of their sophomore album Shaky Dream, coming out August 6 via Dine Alone Records. You can hear the first single “Spins In Circles” below. Teaming up with Producer John Congelton (St. Vincent, The Walkmen, Explosions In The Sky), the band found themselves embedded in the … Read more
Jimmy Eat World Damage RCA Records [2013] Fire Note Says: Jimmy Eat World stay consistent on seventh album Damage. Album Review: Jimmy Eat World have had a good ride. The emo band has outlasted and outplayed many in the genre while maintaining a major label contract and carrying a solid fan base. This is even … Read more
UK band Sharks released a new video for the driving single “Sunday’s Hand”, off of their latest album, Selfhood. The video gives us a snap shot of the lives of an attractive young couple spending a beautiful day together, but watch out for an ending which may surprise you. You can read our review of … Read more
The intent of our Label Profile feature is to simply highlight a record label that we feel aligns with our own belief here at The Fire Note that music is an experience. Today we profile Communicating Vessels. A huge thanks to founder Jeffrey Cain for taking the time to answer our questions. If you like … Read more
Lemuria The Distance Is So Big Bridge Nine Records [2013] Fire Note Says: Lemuria are back with another engaging high energy indie rock record! Album Review: After 5 years I have started to sound like a broken record when reviewing Buffalo, NY group Lemuria but I will tell you that once again, with album number … Read more
American punk band the Transplants will see their highly anticipated new album, In A Warzone, hit the street this June 25th via Epitaph Records. “When we started this band 13 years ago, we weren’t worried about who was going to like us,” states front-man Rob Aston. “We still aren’t. In A Warzone is more raw … Read more
Foals have released the Nabil Elderkin-directed video for their song “Bad Habit.” You can enjoy the new video below. The UK five-piece just wrapped a largely sold-out US headline tour that included stops at Sasquatch, Governors Ball, Orion Festival and Bonnaroo. They’ll be back in the states in August for Lollapalooza, Outside Lands and more … Read more
The Civil Wars highly anticipated sophomore self-titled album will be released Tuesday, August 6 on Sensibility Music/Columbia Records and is produced by Charlie Peacock. This limited collector’s edition bundle includes: The Civil Wars 12″; gatefold 180 gram vinyl LP which also contains a CD of the complete album,Poison & Wine 10″ EP, To Be Determined … Read more
Here is some cool reissue news from one of our favorite bands the Motel Beds. You now can pre-order one of their earlier excellent records Sunfried Dreams on wax! Sunfried Dreams is strictly limited to a hand numbered 300 copies on white vinyl. It also includes a bonus track that wasn’t available on the original … Read more
Black Joe Lewis brand new full-length LP, Electric Slave, will be released on August 27 on Vagrant Records. Most of the album was produced by GRAMMY award winner Stuart Sikes (White Stripes, Cat Power, Modest Mouse) and recorded at Church House Studios in Austin, TX. Three of the new tracks (“Skulldiggin,” “Dar Es Salaam,” “My … Read more
Neko Case returns September 3rd with her new record The Worse Things Get on ANTI- Records. This deluxe version is a limited edition that includes 3 additional bonus tracks and a vinyl etching on side 4. Your guess is as good as ours when it comes to the limited part, maybe 1500 – 2000 pressed? … Read more
R.E.M. Green (25th Anniversary Deluxe Edition) Warner Bros./Rhino Records [2013] Fire Note Says: Green is next in the R.E.M. reissue series that includes a great live second disc. Album Review: For me, Green started an entire new era for R.E.M. as their sixth full length was all about transition. It is interesting how this record … Read more
July 23rd, Hardly Art will release the new full-length by California’s Hunx & His Punx. Street Punk, as the title implies, is a dramatic departure from the band’s previous outing, 2011’s Too Young to Be in Love, and includes a deep-cut Beastie Boys cover (“Egg Raid on Mojo”) and brief, blistering anthems like “Everyone’s a … Read more
For the most discerning aficionados of Robert Pollard and Guided By Voices, Teenage Guitar offers experiments in spontaneity and lo-fi witchiness and wizardry, exploring multiple moods and styles. Brewed in the home laboratory using a historic mid-90s Tascam 488 cassette recorder, without professional engineers or adult supervision, Force Fields at Home recalls the sound and … Read more
Eleanor Friedberger Personal Record Merge Records [2013] Fire Note Says: Sophomore album Personal Record secures Eleanor Friedberger’s full time status as a solo act. Album Review: With The Fiery Furnaces on a hiatus it seems like the perfect time for Eleanor Friedberger to release her sophomore album Personal Record. The record once again highlights her … Read more
You can now see Pokey LaFarge’s debut video “Central Time,” which is the first single from his self-titled album that released June 4 on Third Man Records. Directed by frequent Third Man collaborator Jo McCaughey, with set design and Lomokino photography by Rachel Briggs, the video features whimsical scenes of Pokey and the band playing … Read more
Robert Randolph, the slide guitar jam/rock/blues phenomenon who’s been captivating global audiences for a decade, has debuted the first song from his upcoming album Lickety Split, set for release July 16th from Blue Note Records. Randolph explains the song’s origins: “We started writing Born Again as a love song. It was about that feeling you … Read more
The Dandy Warhols Thirteen Tales From Urban Bohemia (13th Anniversary Edition) Capitol Records [2013] Fire Note Says: The Dandy Warhols celebrate Thirteen Tales with an expanded anniversary edition. Album Review: 2013 marks the thirteenth anniversary of The Dandy Warhols Thirteen Tales From Urban Bohemia and that probably leaves you saying – so what? Well in … Read more
Here is an interesting listen for a Friday afternoon. Olivier Libaux of Nouvelle Vagues cover of Queens of the Stone Age’s No One Knows. His new album Uncovered Queens of the Stone Age (Music for Music Lovers), is due July 16. Check out the cover below.
Jonny Fritz Dad Country ATO Records [2013] Fire Note Says: Jonny Fritz finds a more serious side on his ATO debut Dad Country. Album Review: Jonny Fritz (formerly Jonny Corndawg) plays a very straightforward and honest “country” music on his third album, Dad Country, and first for ATO Records. Fritz states that his songs are … Read more
Jonathan Rado is a songwriter, a staid performer, an evangelical producer – the 23-year-old California native’s solo project, fashioned on brief sabbatical from his main project, Foxygen, is a deliciously self-conscious piece of esoteric apocrypha. Like character games, or symphonies of nonsense imitation-language, his records are cathartic, designed only to liberate the body and break … Read more
North Carolina’s ASG are back with their fourth full length and Relapse debut ‘Blood Drive’. Sun soaked groove heavy riffs that reference equal parts Torche and Queens of the Stone Age ‘Blood Drive’ is nice and heavy rock. ‘Blood Drive’ sounds like a record that will take ASG to the level of other well known … Read more
Alex Bleeker And The Freaks How Far Away Woodsist Records [2013] Fire Note Says: Alex Bleeker’s sophomore album will take you back to a different era of Americana. Album Review: Alex Bleeker is the bassist for Real Estate but his solo musical outlet with The Freaks has continued on to the more realized sophomore record … Read more
Secret EP is just that: an EP released in secret. The band quietly posted these 5 tracks on their Bandcamp page late last year. Joyful Noise is now giving the Secret EP a proper release, available on digital, 10″ black vinyl, and limited edition 10″ green marble vinyl (hand-numbered out of just 300 copies). The … Read more
Morningbell is one of the more prolific, inventive, and fiercely independent bands in the country. With six albums and four EPs over nine years (including an album released only on custom-made USB cards, a choose-your-own-adventure album, and 2009’s universally lauded Sincerely, Severely), Morningbell has gone more places with their music than most bands do in … Read more