Besides deliberate misspellings and prodigious capitalization in band names, we hope that one of the trends people will note about the music of 2013 is the ascendency of female voiced indie pop. CHVRCHES, HAERTS, HAIM (okay, a few bands fall into both categories!) as well as London Grammar, Lorde, and many other girl-led groups are proliferating radio charts and tastemakers' playlists this year. New band Lucius, though, is a breed apart. Most strikingly different, the Brooklyn based group features dual vocalists Jess Wolfe and Holly Laessig, who sing in constant harmony, immediately bringing to mind girl groups of the 50's and 60's, even as the songs on their debut LP, Wildewoman, traverse a range of influences and styles, from dusty folk pop to dynamic indie rock, and through gentle melodies to barely controlled blow-outs. More than support for the girls' luscious voices, the guys - drummer and producer Danny Molad, guitarist Peter Lalish, and multi-instrumentalist Andrew Burri - interweave their parts through the vocal harmonies and provide backup, all while dressing sharply. And that's a huge part of their appeal: Lucius looks, sounds and dresses like a band, even as they're acting like wilde-women and men! Check out their amazing in-studio performance, proving it's never too early to harmonize, live on the Morning Show with John Richards:
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Known to many as the band who introduced the “post-dubstep” era, Mount Kimbie have always defied expectation. After meeting at college in London and bonding over a shared love of electronic music, the UK duo of Dominic Maker and Kai Campos explored the spaces around the popular dance music of 2008 …
Since Lake Street Dive's stunning performances during the last two years at Pickathon, fans in the Northwest have been clamoring for a new full-length from the Brooklyn based soul peddlers. Fortunately, they won't have to wait much longer, as Bad Self-Portraits is due February 18, 2014. In anticipa…
