New To You – music added week of April 7
Here's a taste of what's new this week at Spinnaker Radio. You heard it here first: Genders - "Sugarcoat" Villagers - "Occupy Your Mind" William Onyeabor - "Atomic Bomb" Jef…
Album Review: Mac DeMarco’s Salad Days
He’s known for getting nude on stage while covering U2’s “Beautiful Day,” and then shocking the audience by shoving drumsticks up his sphincter. The Canadian-born musician often wears a denim…
Album Spotlight: Sisyphus
This new collaborative project uniting three seemingly disparate indie voices holds many surprises. Sufjan Stevens became an immensely important artist in the early 00s with a lilting voice and…
Spring Break Top 20
Whether you traveled, studied, worked, or just chilled out, Spinnaker Radio was right there with you providing the soundtrack to your Spring Break. Here's our countdown of the Spring Break…
Album Spotlight: St. Vincent
Texas native Annie Clark, better known by her stage name, St. Vincent, has garnered a reputation as one of the most interesting indie pop artists of the last decade.
Nine albums you should be excited about in 2014
In no particular order: OK Go, 311, Bank of Skulls, Cloud Nothings, Real Estate, Liars, Flying Lotus and Captain Murphy, Swans, Kanye West are set to release albums this year.
Album Spotlight: Broken Bells – After the Disco
Four years after their first album, Danger Mouse and James Mercer reunited to produce After the Disco, an LP that combines several eras of music to create a unique but bland sound.
Daily Discovery: Too True
Dum Dum Girls’ excellent 2012 EP End of Daze hit all the right notes thanks to its atmospheric blend of indie-pop and garage-rock. Their newest album, Too True, delves heavily into goth-rock. This territory is familiar to the band, yet never exploited by them this much.
Daily Discovery: Mogwai
On their latest LP Rave Tapes, the veteran post rock group discover the power of the synthesizer.
Spinnaker Radio’s favorite albums of 2013
The end of the year marks the beginning of the annual music journalism tradition: “best of…” lists. Bands with zero resemblance whatsoever are pitted against each other in a musical…
