This week on New Tracks on the Trail: • Australian indie rock crew Gang of Youths has officially broken into the U.S. mainstream, and they’ll continue to plunder the airwaves with the latest single release from last year’s ARIA “Album of the Year”, Go Farther In Lightness. Gang of Youth is coming off an appearance […]
New Tracks – 9/18
What’s most interesting about Paul McCartney’s career today is not simply that he’s still alive and rockin’, but that he keeps finding ways to reinvent himself. I mean, you’d think after five-plus decades of legendary status he’d be content to just phone it in, collect his dues and spend as little time in the studio […]
New Tracks – 8/28
Everything he’s touched in recent years seems to turn to gold. We’re talking about former The War on Drugs guitarist Kurt Vile, who followed up his 2015 smash single “Pretty Pimpin’” with last year’s killer collaboration album with Australian singer/guitarist Courtney Barnett, Lotta Sea Lice. Now, months after teasing a new 2018 project, the Philly […]
New Tracks – 10/3
Long before Billy Corgan cornered the market on superfluous melancholy-rock … … there was Australian trio Crowded House and its 1986 smash single, “Don’t Dream It’s Over.” Perhaps it’s not fair to allow one song to usurp an entire band’s sound and career – but honestly, we’re so obsessed with this one that we’re just […]
New Tracks – 9/12
Who knew Aristotle was a pop music critic? Yes, we’re talking about that Aristotle: the ancient Greek philosopher and scientist; The one who studied under Plato and tutored Alexander the Great; the one who shaped Western thought for centuries to come. The one who apparently issued the first honest critique of the inexplicable phenomenon known […]
