The Head and The Heart “Let’s Be Still” –Album Review
In the four years since Seattle Americana-folk outfit The Head and The Heart started getting national attention, it could never be said that they had a reputation for raising the roof. This band is not...
View ArticleCults “Static” –Album Review
Scenario: you form a band with your significant other. You write some songs and make a record. You get famous, and your band travels the world. Then you break up. What are your options? You can either...
View ArticleBest Coast “Fade Away” –Album Review
First, there was Crazy For You—a debut album by California surf/rock duo Best Coast whose buzzy, effected sound placed them at the fore of a whole movement of indie rock and gave frontwoman Bethany...
View ArticleUp-and-Comers: Anna Calvi
It seems quite odd to classify Anna Calvi as an up-and-comer, considering that she’s already a chart success in Europe with two albums to her credit, and that she’s been both a nominee and a judge for...
View ArticleMidlake “Antiphon” –Album Review
Imagine you’re an indie rock band with several critically acclaimed albums under your belt. You embark on a new project, you spend months writing, rehearsing and preparing, and in the middle of...
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Up-and-Comers: Passenger
The story of Passenger is almost as compelling as his music; it’s a riches-to-rags-to-riches story, at least musically speaking. Started in the UK by Michael Rosenberg and Andrew Phillips ten years...
View ArticleJake Bugg “Shangri-La” –Album Review
Okay. I’m totally enamored with this guy. Brit retro folk-rocker Jake Bugg definitely made a stir with his self-titled debut album last year—enough of a stir, in fact, to get him nominated for this...
View ArticleSt. Vincent Shares New Single “Birth In Reverse”
After last year’s highly creative and classy collaboration with David Byrne, baroque pop songstress St. Vincent (nee Annie Clark) is back with a new blonde ‘do, an Ingenuity Award from the Smithsonian...
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The MIMO Interview: Shout Out Louds [2013 in Review]
As is our custom, toward the end of the year and the beginning of the next, we like to take a look back at some of the more memorable articles published to MIMO. We begin our review of 2013 with an...
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The Top Five Indie/Alternative Albums of 2013
As 2013 comes to a close, it’s time to take a look back at the artists who have released stellar work over the past year. I don’t mind telling you I had a hard time whittling this list down to...
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The MIMO Interview: Lissie Talks “Shameless” [2013 In Review]
2013 was a great year for MIMO interviews, from industry representatives to Platinum-selling artists. In this piece from June, Jeff McQ got a chance to ask folk-rocker Lissie a few questions about her...
View ArticleBroken Bells Release New Single “After the Disco”
I don’t know about you, but I’ve been waiting/hoping for a new album from indie-rock duo Broken Bells for quite some time. The combination of Danger Mouse and Shins frontman James Mercer might be...
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The MIMO Interview: The Mowgli’s [2013 in Review]
At the time David Tillman turned this piece on The Mowgli’s into MIMO back in April, they were just starting to gain attention with their single “San Francisco,” with a debut full-length record in the...
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The MIMO Interview: Lucy Schwartz [2013 in Review]
Continuing to review some of the more memorable pieces from MIMO in 2013…we came across this interview Jeff McQ did with Lucy Scwhartz back in August. She’s had a lot of opportunities as an indie...
View ArticleYoung the Giant “Mind Over Matter”—Album Review
“This is where I come from / This is where I belong,” sings Young the Giant frontman Sameer Ghadia in his signature warbly vibrato on “Crystallized,” the second advance single from their sophomore...
View ArticleWarpaint “Warpaint”—Album Review
In the four years since all-girl indie-rock outfit Warpaint released their debut album The Fool, they’ve experienced a slow burn of increasing popularity not entirely unlike their atmospheric musical...
View ArticleDum Dum Girls “Too True” –Album Review
From the beginning of their career, Dum Dum Girls have been running something of a risk by leaning so heavily on the past for their sound—a goth-infused, reverby noise-rock influenced by the likes of...
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The MIMO Interview: Priscilla Ahn
Since her early days playing open mics around New York City clubs in the mid-2000s, singer-songwriter Priscilla Ahn has become something of a staple in the indie music scene. Her warm, folksy style has...
View ArticleBombay Bicycle Club “So Long, See You Tomorrow”—Album Review
Over the years, London-based indie-rockers Bombay Bicycle Club have developed an interesting reputation in that the one predictable thing about them is their unpredictability. We buy records from our...
View ArticleUp-and-Comers: Woman’s Hour
Here’s a band you’re likely to hear a lot more from in the coming months. A four-piece electro-pop act based in London, Woman’s Hour is just now coming on the radar, but they’ve already made best-of...
View ArticleStream St. Vincent’s Self-Titled Album a Week Early
The time is finally here. Avant-garde pop songstress Annie Clark (nee, St. Vincent) has been teasing us for months with a systematic release of singles (including “Birth In Reverse,” and “Prince...
View ArticleBeck “Morning Phase”—Album Review
Let’s get this part out of the way: Beck aficionados will not be able to listen to his new album Morning Phase without immediately associating it with 2002’s Sea Change. They are cut from the same...
View ArticleManchester Orchestra “Cope”—Album Review
To state the obvious—Manchester Orchestra’s new album Cope is loud. Really loud. Front to back. And that’s exactly how they planned it. If you’re a fan of Manchester Orchestra, you need to know this up...
View ArticleCheck Out First Aid Kit’s New Video “Cedar Lane”
Sweden has definitely proven herself a leader in the electro-pop market these days, but Americana? That’s for, you know, Americans. Right? Think again. Johanna and Klara Söderberg, the Swedish...
View ArticleThe New Pornographers “Brill Bruisers”–Album Review
Someone ought to look this up, but it seems to me that The New Pornographers might hold some sort of record for longest-lasting supergroup, or at least deserve to be on some list of that sort. All of...
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