Lower Dens

Gene Clark tribute @ MHOW in pics (PART 3) -- Iain Matthews (Fairport Convention) & Jenn Wasner (Wye Oak) & more

Mr. Scally, 31, first heard “No Other” in 2004, when he began collaborating with Ms. Legrand; her father gave her the L.P. “I thought it was one of those classic rock records like ‘After the Gold Rush,’ one of those well-known canonized great records,” Mr…

Gene Clark tribute @ MHOW in pics (PART 2) -- Hamilton Leithauser (The Walkmen), Victoria Legrand (Beach House) & more

After The Walkmen’s Hamilton Leithauser crooned the country-rocker “From a Silver Phial” and the album-closing “Lady of the North,” the whole ensemble returned for an encore that kicked off with a vibrant rendition of The Byrds’ jangly “I’ll Feel a Whole Lot Better…

Gene Clark tribute @ MHOW in pics & review (PART 1) -- Robin Pecknold (Fleet Foxes), Daniel Rossen (Grizzly Bear) & more

Gene Clark‘s 1974 solo album, No Other, was dismissed by critics at the time as being bloated and overproduced but in recent years has become a lost classic…

Beach House, Fleet Foxes, Grizzly Bear, Walkmen members & more performing Gene Clark's 'No Other' on tour (dates)

In 1974, former Byrd Gene Clark released his fourth solo album, No Other, a critical and commercial failure that earned increasingly more recognition over time and was received much more warmly upon its reissue in the early 2000s…

Lower Dens NOT opening for Liars (win tix)

Lower Dens at Central Park in 2012 (more by Amanda Hatfield) As mentioned, Liars are coming to NYC this month for shows at The Met on May 18 (sold out) and Brooklyn Masonic Temple on May 19…

Luxury Liners (Carter from Lower Dens) releasing LP (streams), playing NYC tonight

Carter Tanton spent time touring with The War on Drugs and was later a full-on member of Lower Dens. While in the van, Tanton spent time on electronic music, releasing Freeclouds in 2011…

Lou Barlow loved the Pygmalion Music Festival (he just can't remember the name)

Lou Barlow @ Green Music Fest (more by Rachel Angres) Dinosaur Jr. was one of the many artists who played the 2012 edition of the Pygmalion Music Festival in Champaign-Urbana in September…

Pitchfork's Top 100 Tracks of 2012 (Grimes' "Oblivion" is #1)

Pitchfork just posted their much anticipated list of the top 100 tracks of 2012. The #1 slot went to… Grimes! Whether you thought the whole of her album Visions was good or not, it was hard to deny the charms of “Oblivion…

Rami Haykal & Jake Rosenthal of Glasslands/Popgun Booking's Top 10 LPs of 2012

Alt-J at Glasslands, 8/7/2012 (more by Toby Tenenbaum) Rami Haykal and Jake Rosenthal started Popgun Booking back in 2008 and in a very short amount of time became prominent tastemakers, with their homebase of Glasslands becoming one of the first stops for any new hyped band (Django Django, Savages, Palma Violets to names some recent UK ones)…

Lower Dens released 'Nootropics Remixed' EP, list their favorite things of 2012

Lower Dens @ Chicago’s the Riv, 10/1/2012 (more by Grant McAllister) Baltimore’s Lower Dens went into new, motorik directions on their second album, Nootropics so it makes sense that tracks from the record might work well in the remix world…
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