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• The Foundry Field Recordings Prepare for 'Battle'

  April 30, 2007 – For all their smolder, it's fitting that this Columbia, MO quartet chose the name The Foundry Field Recordings: just as a foundry uses furnaces to melt metal, these CMJ favorites bring an orange molten glow to their music. "Battle Brigades II" spills the band's apparent affinity for bands like Built to Spill and My Bloody Valentine, achieving a lush sonic soundscape with similarly warm fuzzed-out guitars and dreamy vocals. …
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• Yacht Takes a Trip Down Alice's Rabbit Hole in "So Post All 'Em"

  April 26, 2007 – Jona Bechtolt, the wizard behind the beats of Portland duo, The Blow, is set to release his third solo album I Believe in You. Your Magic is Real (out May 8 via the Marriage imprint) under his one-man act, Yacht. The album's opener, "So Post All 'Em," is a trip down the rabbit hole in Alice's Wonderland, a chaotic but serene collection of everything from hollow, cool drum beats to high-pitched Alvin & the Chipmunks-like chants. …
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• Midnight Movies Remixed by Iha

  April 25, 2007 – Los Angeles quartet Midnight Movies, known for the hypnotic vocals of frontwoman Gena Olivier and their drowsy throwback to '70s rock, decided it was time for a pick-me-up. Currently on a nationwide tour to support the release of their sophomore effort, Lion the Girl (released yesterday on New Line), the band enlisted James Iha to mix up their single "Patient Eye" single. …
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• Of God and Science Experiments With Rhythm-Driven Genre-Bending

  April 23, 2007 – A band name like Of God and Science seems at first to be an oxymoron, but a listen to this New Mexico-based quartet's music shows how apt it is, considering their relative ease in straddling different (sometimes opposing) sounds. …
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• Mary Timony Band: Locked and Loaded

  April 20, 2007 – If Mary Timony strayed too far into the forest for you on solo outings like the precious prog of 2002's Golden Dove, never fear: it seems as though she left a few breadcrumbs for herself. While she hasn't abandoned idiosyncrasies like her symbolically rich lyrics, as centerpiece of the Mary Timony Band's trio, Timony's guitar once again trumps her keyboards, and Chad Molter's base pumps up anything that might have missed muscle. …
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• Diplo Dips Into Baile Funk with Bonde do Role

  April 20, 2007 – Rodrigo Gorky, Pedro D'eyrot, and Marina Vello are turning Portugese playfully profane, to the delight of the dancefloor masses. The trio, known as Bonde Do Role, hails from Curitiba, Brazil and kicks out baile funk rhymes about teenage Brazilian office boys and a gay James Bond ("James Bonde") in a Portuguese sub-dialect called Pajuba. …
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• Maps Flies 'Sky' High with Debut

  April 19, 2007 – Charting a career for himself under the name Maps, U.K. native James Chapman works in an unorthodox way for someone churning out layered soundscapes and ambient space-rock: he doesn't use computers. Shunning top-of-the-line technology for the 16-track recorder in his Northampton bedroom, Chapman meticulously splices sounds together to achieve the desired depth. …
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• Dungen's Family Ties

  April 19, 2007 – Dungen may sound like the name of an '80s hair metal group, but in the quartet's native Swedish tongue, it translates to the slightly less hardcore, "The Grove." Branching out from the brain of frontman and founder Gustav Ejstes, the fruits of the band's labor are psychedelic rock jams sung entirely in Swedish. …
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• We Depict a Ra Ra Riot

  April 18, 2007 – Let's not even try to play the game of "heard it where first." Sure, we covered these guys at CMJ, made them a preliminary pick for SXSW, but seeing them live last night (April 17) in New York City, supporting Art Brut, sealed the deal: Ra Ra Riot is one of the best young bands we've heard in a really long time, and little SPIN.com HQ has been awash in their tunes for several weeks now. On their snappier numbers, like "Each Year" (DOWN …
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• The Upwelling Surge Back from the Underground

  April 17, 2007 – Since being voted top "underground" band in SPIN.com's 2005 Artist of the Year tournament, Queens-based rock trio the Upwelling have kept themselves mighty busy. …
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