LODRO

Cincinnati trio Tweens make garagey, nasally, punky pop that is equal parts rauccous and infectious. Songs like “Mean” and “Rattle&Rollin'” are both especially catchy and seem prime for a label like Burger that lives for this stuff…

Weekend @ BVSXSW 2011 (more by Tim Griffin) As mentioned, Weekend will release their second album, Jinx, on July 23 via Slumberland. Where their debut album, Sports, wormed its way into your head from sheer force, the new album has a much stronger focus on both melody and dynamics (and just a smidge of melodrama)…

Tonight (4/9) at Pianos is the start of a four-week residency from some band called “Les Yeux.” We’ve never heard of them, the quotes around their name are curious and, oh, word on the street is it’s actually Oberhofer, whose new EP, Notalgia, is out April 23…

Kanine Records, current home of Eternal Summers, Zambri, Fear of Men and more, are turning ten years old this year, quite an accomplishment for any label born post-Napster…

Brooklyn trio LODRO describe their sound as “neo-noir punk” and there’s a definite grimey, bluesy sleaze running across the three songs they’ve posted on their Soundcloud…

“Clash the Truth” came out only four days prior to the show, yet the lyrics were ingrained in the crowd’s minds. In acknowledgment of the leak, Payseur jokingly remarked that he too heard the album before it came out…