Japandroids News: Japandroids

Japandroids Magazine - news, reviews, videos, photo gallery and free mp3 playlist.

or critics who keep an ear to the rock n' roll underground, it seems inevitable that 2009's year-end accolades will coalesce around a trio of art-rock albums by Animal Collective, Grizzly Bear, and the Dirty Projectors. But as this hot summer wears on, there's no denying whose tunes have been stuck in my head most frequently, and my hipper sensibilities are wanting for an argument against the mathematical evidence of my Last.fm play count. Maybe its sunstroke, but I feel compelled to suggest that two young Canucks trading in sludgy punk-pop tunes may have crafted a rock album that gets...