Reuters - There's pop culture that can be consumed in bite-size chunks, and then there's pop culture that requires investment. Top 40 singles and sitcoms can generally be enjoyed in a vacuum -- one doesn't need much context to enjoy a poppy beat or a half-hour about the antics of a group of funny friends. But increasingly, there's culture that r...

Philly duo Reading Rainbow dropped this harmonized and hook-filled 77-second guitar/drum jammer in our inbox yesterday, the first properly mixed track from a 12-song full-length the band just finished taping this past weekend in Virginia. They says it's the shortest from a set that follows up the 7" recently released via Crocodiles' Brandon Welc...

Coheed And Cambria are giving fans a taster of their forthcoming album, Year Of The Black Rainbow, on their official website. New track, The Broken, can be streamed on www.coheedandcambria.com. The album, which will be released on April 12 through Roadrunner, is the first Coheed release to feature former Dillinger Escape Plan drummer Chris Pennie.

Check out the first new material to be lifted from ‘Year of the Black Rainbow’ inside! (more…)

The dreamy Philadelphia swirl-pop outfit A Sunny Day In Glasgow put out the record I most often cited as "most overlooked" last year with Ashes Grammar, a 22-track portrait full of soft vocals floating in lush soundscapes and shifting rhythms, stitched together by scene-setting, gauzy, often synthetic interstitials. It requires a full listening,...