EAR FARM Bands of the Week 2009
Last year, EAR FARM featured 43 bands in our Band of the Week feature… ranging from relative unknowns (such as The Laughing and Bombadil) to interviews with indie-rock legends (see The Wedding Present and

Baroness, Earthless @ Bowery Ballroom – 20 November 2009
In an interview with us earlier this year, lead singer/guitarist John Baizley of Baroness said “We don’t just write records for people to listen to, we use them as a means to get ourselves out on stage. We’ve always considered ourselves a live band…” Indeed, Baroness is a live band. A mighty fucking monster of a live band that’s every bit as nuanced and intentionally

OPP – 11/25 (SXSW, Citay, more)
South by Southwest announces over 200 showcasing bands for SXSW 2010 LCD Soundsystem’s James Murphy has scored Noah Baumbach’s new movie, Greenberg Animal Collective’s Geologist talks with the Vulture blog Members of Coldplay, Mew and a-ha have formed a new band,

Sonic Youth, Dinosaur Jr. @ Terminal 5 – 21 November 2009
With the double-shot of Dinosaur Jr. and Sonic Youth, Saturday may as well have been “indie rock royalty night” at Terminal 5, and though the latter refused to treat the occasion as anything resembling a career retrospective, we sure would have preferred it that way. Let me qualify that by stating that no band I can think of has had a more graceful and vital third act as Sonic Youth has

Hit-or-miss: “Untutored Youth” by The Hives
EAR FARM’s Hit-or-miss is a recurring feature wherein the EF music library is put on shuffle, the song that plays is then searched (using the song title) on Google images and a resulting photo (plus an MP3 of the song) is posted. Listen: “Untutored Youth” by The Hives from Your New Fav