Jessie Ware’s “Wildest Moments” has achieved something resembling ubiquity since its release last year (it’s one of those songs I know by heart but I have no idea HOW I know it), and today, the awesome Scottish indie band Frightened Rabbit delivered their own take on the song for the British music site Gig...

Frightened Rabbit’s Pedestrian Verse is probably of 2013′s more unjustly overlooked albums. (At least in terms of critical reception; the band plays to ever-larger rooms with every tour.) I thought it was a triumph, for the most part; a few steps up from their last, 2010′s The Winter Of Mixed Drinks, containing seve...

We Are Augustines are no more as the band has returned to using their original shorter name Augustines for the release of their new album and upcoming tours

Scotland triumphantly invaded Hollywood as a double shot of Frightened Rabbit and the Twilight Sad easily sold out the Fonda Theater. Frightened Rabbit ripped through a compelling set giving the audience a walkthrough of their new album Pedestrian Verse. The Twilight Sad opted for the “Coffee house vibe” with a stripped down...

A few months ago, I wrote about the increasing influence of Mumford & Sons and how that band’s brand of bleeding-heart folk-rock represents the convergence of certain indie trends (howling Avett Brothers roots rock, bookish Decemberists folk-prog, humongous Arcade Fire stadium anthems, woodsy Fleet Foxes classic rock worship) ...