This week, London-based quartet, The Boxer Rebellion, release their highly-anticipated fourth studio album, Promises. Since their 2009 breakthrough album, Union, you’ve probably heard their music in movies, TV shows and commercials. Their brand of atmospheric alternative rock is pushed to greater heights on the new album. The Album of the Week is now available on [...]
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Kings of Leon Debut New Music at Bottle Rock Festival
The Kings Of Leon played a brand-new song during their set at the Bottle Rock festival in Napa, California this weekend. The track is called “It Don’t Matter,” though many YouTubers are calling it “Always the Same.” Frontman Caleb Followill booms on the song’s catchy chorus of this uptempo rocker that is reminiscent of Queens Of The Stone Age. There’s [...]
Festival News: ACL and EDC Lineups Prove Bigger is Better
Two of the American festival season’s biggest events revealed stacked lineups full of top tier artists and expansions to make room for more people – proving that music addicts’ favorite time of year keeps getting bigger and better. Austin City Limits Reveal Lineup and Additional Weekend Festival favorite Austin City Limits revealed a fully loaded [...]
Vampire Weekend is Slacker’s Artist of the Week.
Vampire Weekend have been the subject of so much hype and critical attention- both positive and negative- that it’s hard to believe that their new album “Modern Vampires of the City” is only their 3rd effort. While they will always be the poster boys for a culture of Wes Anderson films and prep-school kids discovering afro-pop [...]
Five Alternative-Indie Artists to Watch in 2013
Indie-alternative rock music is fast-becoming popular on the music scene–even under hipster protest. The historically elusive genre, or rather bucket of genres, just can’t help itself. We blame/thank all the fabulous music festivals, like Coachella, for shedding some light on some undeniably talented indie rock artists. We would be remiss not to thank skinny jeans, [...]
New Weekly Series Spotlights Artists With On-Demand Music
We have a few new additions to our weekly spotlights here at Slacker that we are extremely excited about. Our Artist of the Week station has been such a big hit that we decided to also spotlight an album as well as a few songs we have on heavy rotation each week. Best part? ALL [...]
