Natasha Young
Natasha Young, a writer and editor recently transplanted from Montreal and originally from Portland, Maine, is now based in New York City. She writes about music for Spinner, AOL Music Blog, the Boombox, and more.
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Deirdre O'Callaghan
Brooklyn indie rockers the National have announced that their sixth studio album, Trouble Will Find Me, is due out on May 21 through 4AD. The follow-up to 2010's critically acclaimed High Violet was self-produced by the band, recorded in Rhinebeck, N.Y.'s Clubhouse studio.
After the five-piece's 22 months of touring in ...
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Thom Yorke will grace us with his dance moves in a series of Atoms for Peace tour dates just added for this fall. Thom Yorke announced via his Twitter this morning that the alt supergroup, featuring Red Hot Chili Peppers bassist Flea and Radiohead producer Nigel Godrich (among others), will come to Philadelphia, ...
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This is the Strokes we know and love. The new music video for "All the Time" just released today may be a token tour diary video, but those are always fun, aren't they?
"All the Time" is more familiar territory than "One Way Trigger," the first single off their new album, Comedown Machine. The video shows the band enjoying giant ...
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In the new interview for their cover feature with Rolling Stone, Mumford & Sons keyboardist Ben Lovett spoke out on the mainstream music industry's appropriation of their folk-rock sound. After hearing "American Idol" winner Phillip Phillips' track "Home," Lovett says, "I was like, 'What's that? Did we do ...
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Ben Sollee (left, by Magnus Linqvist) and Lukas Nelson (by Rick Diamond, Getty Images)
SXSW veterans Lukas Nelson of California-based rock band Lukas Nelson & Promise of the Real and cellist, composer and singer/songwriter Ben Sollee gave us their survival methods of choice to help us all get through the rockin' festivities in ...
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Natalie and Eliot Bergman avoid the White Stripes-esque ambiguity of their brother-sister-bandhood. No manufactured mystery is needed for Wild Belle to thoroughly enchant you; their rocksteady-influenced, rhythmic pop sound does that just fine. If the band's self-titled three-track EP was love at first sight, Isles, their ...
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Fact: Every time Eric Wareheim of "Tim and Eric Awesome Show Great Job!" directs a music video, it automatically becomes the de facto greatest music video ever. However, the new video for Beach House's song "Wishes," off 2012's critically and commercially successful Bloom, may claim that spot permanently. Sorry, Major Lazer. ...
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