This week’s featured artist is very new to me. White Rabbits hail from New York and I was directed their way by Monoxide, a friend from IRC and the PA forums. They have a new album coming out on the 19th of May called It’s Frightening. I was able to catch part of an early release version and I rather liked what I heard.
The first single already has a video. It is called “Percussion Gun†and here it is for you via Pitchfork:
I haven’t been listening to their stuff for long but I rather like it. There is sort of a mix of Sloan and Muse going on. Kind of disparate but they make it work.
Their first album is called Fort Nightly and it has the song The Plot:
I think I may have caught this on The Edge’s Indie Hour. I am kind of a sucker for vocal harmonies (thus Sloan). They’re touring across the US until August this year (no Canadian dates as of yet but I think they would be worth seeing). I have read that they are similar to Spoon (though that doesn’t mean a lot to me, I can’t even name a Spoon song off the top of my head but it may help you).
This is a live version of one of the songs from Fort Nightly. The intro piano is absolutely fantastic and then things move into a driving rock sort of thing.
