Tortoise bassist and guitarist Doug McCombs is a multi-instrumentalist based in Chicago, Illinois. He's been a part of many notable projects over the years, such as Eleventh Dream Day, Brokeback and Pullman, Most recently, McCombs released an album called Sycamore, a duo effort with inventive guitarist/improvised noise artist, David Daniell.... Read More

Check out the hottest new releases in the country, including: The Besnard Lakes Are the Roaring Night, Broken Bells S/T, Jason Collette Rat a Tat Tat, Jimi Hendrix Valleys of Neptune, The Knife Tomorrow, In a Year, Liars Sisterworld... Read More

Eight albums and nearly three decades into their existence, the Tindersticks have outlasted many of the British bands that got their start in the early '90s. Though the sextet never broke through in the major way that other moody contemporaries like PJ Harvey or Pulp did, they picked up a loyal cult... Full Review

Although their debut as Broken Bells comes out this month, the seeds of this collaboration between the Shins' James Mercer and Danger Mouse — going by his given name Brian Burton — dates back to the Roskilde Festival in 2004. It was at the Danish music fest that the two first met and discussed working together.... Read More