Six years since The Notwist have released a new album. Six years? It was something like seven years since I had posted about music here on this blog. I've loved this band for close to twenty years. Not all of their stuff, but bits and pieces have gl... more info

June 3rd will give us the new Clap Your Hands Say Yeah album titled Only One and with a invigourating taste of what will be offered is this track, "Coming Down", with help from The National's Matt Berninger. The band has supplied us with tour d... more info

If any of you have wondered why this blog has slipped away into one of the millions of dusty corners of the internet, today I came upon a prime example of 'what' caused this... Pitchfork's current golden boy, Todd Terje.  All electronic, all discon... more info

How often does The National's Matt Berninger get compared to the golden throat of Leonard Cohen? Well, just once is one time too often. I bring this up because Swearing At Motorist's singer, Dave Doughman, sounds like the perfect meshing of Mr Bernin... more info

A simmering opening becomes interlaced with lead singer Bry Webb's recitation. And the music simmers, and the band simmers, building... building... building... until the liquid roils. "Can I get a witness?" young offenders from the album Constant... more info

Jim Guthrie's "Never Poor", off of his 2013 release, Takes Time, opens with a boozy horn and late night nicotine piano that recalls 70's Tom Waits and the dive bar openings found on his early records, but that is blasted against the wall by the rich ... more info

So spare, so crisp, like a collar-less dress shirt, freshly laundered. White, starched... slip it on and button it up. You'd swear you can smell hot metal and steam on the papery cuffs as you finger comb your hair. Spoon is all about control—neat, ... more info

Sweet Billy Pilgrim is a British band named for an American character, Billy Pilgrim, from Kurt Vonnegut's classic novel, Slaughterhouse-Five. A 21st century band referencing a late sixties novel, describing events of a late 1930's to mid 1940's war... more info

Maybe you get the reference to 'gold-plated diapers', maybe you don't. And maybe, juuust maybe, you've never heard this song before. The entire staff here at Sixeyes recalls this song, by Malkmus and his band, fondly; we all love it—especially the ... more info

Out of Key by Albert Draper Archfiend by Eksi Ekso The Sparrow by Lawrence Arabia more info