Mark Lanegan Band: Blues Funeral
It seems we turned a few people on to their new favorite thing the last time we posted about Mark Lanegan. Well, get ready to get happy again, because the Mark Lanegan Band (the heavier, grittier outfit with whom Lanegan recorded 2004′s Bubblegum – which includes one of my favorite of favorite songs, “Methamphetamine … Read more
Thrillseeker, CiferCrew
Your Tuesday needs some dance music too, but a different kind, something a little more New Wave, but seasoned with reggae and dubstep. This remix is called Thrillseeker, and it comes to you from CiferCrew, in Los Angeles. Yesterdays offering was, for me, something of an assembly of old friends (Cobra Starship, Gym Class Heroes) … Read more
Up the Anti, Vol. 1, Black Cards
Here is what your Monday needs: some thudding dance music, with bursts of WHIMBLE WHIMBLE WHOOP and BZZZ BZZZ BZZZ. Seriously, it sounds like they were having some fun in the studio when they made this one. There are 35 songs but some of them are short, so you’re bound to find something you like, … Read more
Happy 2nd Birthday, NTSIB
Technically my second anniversary of starting to write here is a couple of months from now, but I’m chiming in to say: Happy Birthday, little blog! And also congratulations, Jessica H.! I hope you didn’t get too squashed in that Panic! pit – I totally read your story and nodded in rueful recognition, because, well, … Read more
Someone’s wall is about to get much more badass…
Two years? Fucking two years? How did that happen? Now This Sound Is Brave is two years old today. And year two was even more exhilirating, life-affecting and life-affirming than the first year. We have heard so much great music, seen so many righteous shows, talked to so many cool people and made some … Read more
Video: Knock, Knock by Andrew Maze
I feel like January has been kind of rough so far. Like perhaps we all need a nice bouncy pop song to chase away the still-heavy wintery darkness. Perhaps even a nice bouncy pop song that encourages us to climb mountains and visit Greenland? And comes with a delightful lyrics video? Yes, I think so. … Read more
The Far West, Bitter Drunk and Cold
NTSIBbers, if you haven’t already had the pleasure, please meet The Far West: Lee Briante (lead vocals / guitar), Robert Black (bass), Erik Kristiansen (pedal steel), Alan F. Rogers (drums) and Brian Bachman (guitar). Collectively veterans of music scenes in places like Texas (all of it), New York (upstate and the lower East Side), Massachusetts … Read more
The Parlor Soldiers: Now I Wrestle Every Rhyme
“You’re a little bi-polar,” he tells her, “and you get on my ass about drinking my liquor and smoking too much grass.” She parries. “You know, you’re no Johnny Cash.” “Woman, what’d you say?” “I said, you ain’t the Man in Black, and I won’t be treated this way.” But there is a wry, … Read more
Saturday Matinee: Westway to the World
What? You haven’t seen this fantastic Clash documentary? Well, pull up a chair, son (or… daughter).
Anniversary Giveaway: The Black Keys
How badass is that poster? So badass that, in my excitement to obtain it, I managed to acquire two of them. So, here’s the deal: Now This Sound Is Brave will celebrate two years of existence a week from today. To celebrate this thing we do with the music and the writing and the … Read more