Album Review: Keane

June 18, 2012, 7:17 am

KEANE's new CD is more a "Wonderland" than a "Strangeland." The English alternative rock band still doing what they do best.

Hacienda

June 11, 2012, 3:11 pm

Before the release of Black Key's 'Brothers' album, Dan was doing solo stuff. Met up with Hacienda and invited! them to tour with him as his backing band. See? Dreams do come true.

Album Review: The Lumineers

June 4, 2012, 10:09 am

It's a perfect lift-off for The Lumineers first album says Cynthia Orland0.

Wintersleep

May 31, 2012, 8:00 am

Wintersleep interview and live performance in the Bing Lounge at 101.9 KINK.FM.

Ten years ago, the members of Wintersleep began working on songs in a small apartment in Halifax, NS. This is the second most notable thing about this particularly drab apartment complex next to the fact that, due to an oversight by the architect, if the pool on the roof was ever filled – the building would tip over. The songs they created were strange, full of rural ghosts and forgotten landscapes.

Jerry Douglas - Traveler

May 30, 2012, 4:00 pm
Jerry Douglas calls his newest record a "travelogue" as the recording process winds its way from New Orleans, to Nashville, up to New York, then to London. Jerry says what came out was something he never dreamed of making.

Song Download: Rebecca Ferguson

May 29, 2012, 11:34 am

Rebecca Ferguson’s “Nothing’s Real But Love” is the iTunes “Free Single of the Week”.  Get the song here.

JD McPherson in Bing Lounge

May 28, 2012, 10:00 am

JD McPherson will swing by the Bing Lounge at 101.9 KINK.FM for an interview and live performance on Saturday, June 2nd at 1:00 p.m. (PDT).  Login to the KINK Community for a chance to be in the audience.  Contest ends 5/31/2012 at 8:00 a.m.

Hailing from Broken Arrow, OK, the former art teacher and his band traveled to Chicago to record Signs and Signifiers at Hi-Style studio, which is housed in the attic of producer/bassist/studio owner Jimmy Sutton’s home and is 100% analog. “I have recorded this style of music in the digital realm, and it just doesn’t quite “sing” as much. Slamming that ¼” tape really hard produced the most beautiful distortion I’ve ever heard,” says McPherson.

GroupLove in Bing Lounge

May 25, 2012, 6:00 am

What this GROUPLOVE thing has going for it is an undeniable zest for, well, everything.