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By Nicole Ido

Last time they played the Granada, the crowd scarcely filled the first floor, yet this time elbowroom was a luxury. Playing to a packed house on Friday night, Girls proved that their third album “Father, Son, Holy Ghost” is doing them well.

Lead singer and songwriter, Christopher Owens, rocked a Kurt Cobain meets surfer boy style with his disheveled blonde hair and grungy camo shirt. Bouquets of flowers embellished the stage while a clean (and very loud) [...]

Denver indie pop husband-and-wife duo Tennis is releasing their spankin’ new album Young and Old today, perfectly in tune with Valentine’s Day. Young and Old, the band’s Sophomore LP released by Fat Possum, is chock full of catchy percussion, haunting progressions of strumming guitars to great driving choruses, and the soulful purrs of singer Alaina Moore’s melodic voice. And It doesn’t hurt that Black Key‘s drummer Patrick Carney helped produce the album.

From the opening bars of “It All Feels The Same” [...]

Porcelain Raft, aka London dream pop composer Mauro Remiddi, is releasing his debut LP, Strange Weekend, on January 24th via Secretly Canadian, and it’s the first album of 2k12 I have genuinely been looking forward to. Though Strange Weekend is Porcelain Raft‘s first full length, he’s put out a number of releases over the past two years, and this album feels like the culminating statement of all all the hard work he’s put into creating this project. With soothing acoustic guitars and subtle effects washing over synths [...]

Up and coming North Texas music festival 35 Denton added a total 114 locally and nationally-based bands through to its four-day lineup Tuesday, including genres from all over the musical spectrum.

For the past several months, bands were able to apply for a spot on the 35 Denton lineup through SonicBids, a third party aggregate site. Many of the artists were nominated through this process. The festival also gave local booking companies to throw a showcase, a first in fest history, and [...]