You may have seen the name Xylos swirling around in the blogosphere of Brooklyn indie music these last few years. The five-piece synth-pop band has been playing the circuit since 2008, cultivating their own brand of dancey-electro indie rock that’s much easier-on-the-ears than a lot of the noisier synth bands Read more...
LOWER MANHATTAN: Engine Room Recordings’ A Tribute to Pinkerton has officially been released – and some of the featured artists from the album will be performing together tonight (9/19) at Bowery Electric in NYC.
Canon Logic, Aunt Martha, Heypenny, and backwords will each play a regular set plus the Read more...
LOWER MANHATTAN: Next up in our video series documenting the making of Engine Room Recordings‘ Pinkerton tribute album is…Brooklyn indie-rock band Dinosaur Feathers doing “Tired of Sex”.
This is the first song on Pinkerton, blasting the record off with a dose of loud, feedback-driven garage rock. For their rendition, Dinosaur Read more...
LOWER MANHATTAN: Indie pop/rock artist Jenny Owen Youngs remembers Weezer’s Blue Album and Pinkerton being in heavy rotation during some of her more formative, budding-rocker years.
So when she heard about Engine Room Recordings’ Pinkerton tribute, she enthusiastically went all-in – electing to try her hand at “Getchoo” – Read more...
LOWER MANHATTAN: When did you first hear Pinkerton? The classic Weezer album was a sonic departure from the debut power pop of The Blue Album and to many fans, refreshingly so.
From the opening feedback of “Tired of Sex” to the wistful and stripped-down “Butterfly” closer, the album delivers Read more...
