The Black Keys – review The Guardian From unfashionable Akron, Ohio, they are a guitar-based band when guitar music is supposedly going the way of the dodo. The White Stripes last popularised their particular format – a guitar/drums garage-rock duo – a decade ago, when Dan Auerbach and ...
Jersey is where this band's heart is Washington Post The trio's songs are breezy, unhurried and nostalgic. Lots of bands aspire to create the soundtrack to life's most dramatic moments, but Real Estate makes music for all the other moments, the ones that happen every day. There's no towering grandeur or ...
The Vortis Diaries: Ghosts of bands past WBEZ (blog) 19, 2012 Second only to true love, no bond in life is tighter or endures longer than one with someone you've made music with. Friendship and shared experience are part of it, of course—all of those hours spent rehearsing, recording, performing, ...
From Lethem to Burroughs: 6 Authors Who've Moonlighted as Lyricists The L Magazine That Rick Moody knows music is no surprise: his introduction to his first novel, Garden State, is a love note to The Feelies. He's also written passionately about the likes of John Lurie and Danielson, and writes regularly about music for The Rumpus.
Band Reunions Finally Find Their True Audience: Millennials Flavorwire But when acts like the Feelies tour in the 21st century, they play to exponentially larger crowds than they entertained in their heyday. That's where the millennials and our era-spanning music collections come in. For us, the Pixies reunion (however ...
It wasn't very grand, but Grand Finale felt like home Tallahassee Democrat (blog) During the mid-'80s, the upstairs barroom at Finale became the town's musical epicenter for local bands as well as imported alternative rock and blues acts. One of the first visiting acts to take the tiny stage was The Feelies, a legendary indie band ...
