Although they’ve put out a handful of new songs (generally in conjunction with new “greatest hits” compilations) in the interim, it’s been 10 years since the Roxette released their last studio album, 2001’s Room Service. The Swedish pop duo are best known for a string of epic pop ballads in the late 80s and early 90s including “Listen to Your Heart”, “Fading Like a Flower” and “It Must Have Been Love” from the Pretty […]
A couple weeks ago, friend of SonicClash and Popblerd blogger Mike Heyliger asked folks to name songs about snow that weren’t Christmas songs. Here’s one of my favorites – “Blizzard of ’78” by the indie rock quartet Ida. This 7 minute epic was the centerpiece of the group’s 2001 album The Braille Night. The song is as stormy as its title would suggest, driven forward by an endlessly repeated descending chord progression pounded out on […]
To preview their sophomore album, Helplessness Blues, due for a May release, indie darlings Fleet Foxes have just posted the record’s title track for free download. It took me a long time to get over my initial skepticism about the band when their first album got so hyped, but it’s hard to deny the lush 70s-style gorgeousness of their country-folk-pop harmonies which come across as equal parts Eagles and Seals & Crofts.
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