Tenement Halls | en

The Chicago three-piece have an uncanny knack for constructing gleaming, crystalline, compact pop gems ... and then going after them with an axe like Jack Nicholson. They build the museum-worthy sculpture, and then dash it to the ground, manically laughing their heads off the whole time. It's the musical equivalent of a Pollock painting – a vibrant, technicolor, utterly uninhibited work devised by either a genius or a madman. It's hard to discern which, and it doesn't much matter anyway. The poet laureates of Chicago's skid row, VICTORIAN HALLS are the rare type of band that exist in the little...

After the end of the Atlanta indie rock band the Rock*A*Teens, singer and songwriter Chris Lopez focused on this new project, playing most of the instruments on the record, with a few friends helping out mostly on drums. He has assembled an all-star live version of the band featuring the amazing Fran from the Tom Collins playing bass for the first time ever in a band, as well as former 'teens Jeffrey Wiggins and Will Fratesi .

Halls is South London musician Samuel Howard. The music is performed as a live band featuring Patrick Ghirardello, Ian Jenkins and Joseph Munday. Formed in London, UK in early 2010, Halls worked on material that would appear on the debut EP 'Halls EP', released in January 2011, which was described as having 'ambient soundscapes buttressed by skitter-step beats.' 'Ark' - his brooding debut album - draws from a palette of crystalline melodies, intense production and panoramic instrumentation to create a deeply personal, constructivist work of art. Evocative in sound and yet isolationist in sentiment, the album is an intense, dramatic...

Texas-raised Acadian, Nick Beaudoing, Brooklyn's the Doc Marshalls have forged a reputation for wildly energetic live shows. Whether performing gritty honky-tonk, original Americana, or traditional Cajun two-steps played at breakneck speeds, these big city troubadours are determined to make converts of even the most country-shy souls. Their versatile repertoire has taken them from indie rock clubs in NYC, where roots music is seldom heard, to rural Texas dancehalls and countless festival stages in between. A busy touring schedule has afforded them the opportunity to perform with the likes of Uncle Earl, Carrie Rodriguez, Bobby Bare Jr., the Mammals, and even...