July 19th, 2011 | 3:56 pm | Tim Sendra
The San Fransisco trio Brilliant Colors release their second album Again and Again today through Slumberland and if you liked their first record, you're going to love this one. Introducing was a fine record, full of noisy and hooky reverb pop, but this new record is a step forward. Tighter, catchier and more powerful sounding, the trio really go for it, pumping each song full of energy and a fiery melancholy that sets them apart from the scores of aimless, beachy bands who have the reverb, but not the songs or sense of purpose. We asked the group's singer and guitarist Jess Scott for a short list of things she's been digging lately....
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April 1st, 2011 | 9:30 am | AMG Staff
It's the classic year of college rock -- or perhaps more specifically, it's the year that Minneapolis dominated the sound of America from the upper reaches of the Top 40 to the underground of college radio. The former was all about Prince, who undercut his Purple Rain train by quickly releasing the Paisley Underground-accented Around the World in a Day while others, like Ready for the World, were ripping off his 1999 synth groove. The latter belonged to the Replacements and especially Husker Du, who released the twin titans of Flip Your Wig and New Day Rising on the heels of '84's Zen Arcade.
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Named by Henri Collet, mentored by Erik Satie, and promoted by Jean Cocteau, they were known to the world as Les Six, the upstarts of 20th century modernism in France. On their own, however, Francis Poulenc, Arthur Honegger, Darius Milhaud, Georges Auric, Germaine Tailleferre, and Louis Durey were as individualistic and distinctive as six young Parisian composers could be.
