All in all, Street Worms is the most engaging sludge garage record I've heard in a long, long time. Check out the video for track #3 "Sports" and decide for yourself. Then go adopt yourself a wiener dog.
Monday, October 15, 2018
Viagra Boys: Street Worms Quick Review
All in all, Street Worms is the most engaging sludge garage record I've heard in a long, long time. Check out the video for track #3 "Sports" and decide for yourself. Then go adopt yourself a wiener dog.
Wednesday, October 3, 2018
Papercuts Shares New Single "Sing to Me Candy"
Papercuts is back with a sixth LP and has a new home at Slumberland Records! The new LP comes out on Oct 19th and is called Parallel Universe Blues. Take a listen to the preview track "Sing to Me Candy!" The band recently wrapped up an east coast tour opening for longtime pals and collaborators Beach House and has west coast dates in November.
Be sure to check out Papercuts Facebook and Instagram!
Friday, June 13, 2014
Download Seatraffic "Precious Stones"
San Francisco post-punk duo Seatraffic return this week with new single "Precious Stones" as the first sampling from their forthcoming full length debut Beauty in the Night set for late summer 2014 release. The new collection of sweeping, synth heavy tracks were recorded in fall 2013 at Different Fur Studios with Nic Pope (STS9, Bob Mould, The Morning Benders), the same fantastic team behind the project's beloved 2012 Crimes 7".
Seatraffic formed in 2011 when Mark Zannad added drummer Brandon Harrison to his then fledging solo project based in San Francisco. Together the duo wrote and recorded their self-titled EP merging together synth minded, layered pop with Harrison's background in northern California hardcore.
Following the initial EP the duo began recording at Different Fur Studios with Nic Pope in 2012 and released a string of singles as well as their Crimes 7" which included a handful of solid remixes.
As the project began to gain momentum Zannad headed out to Seal Rock, Oregon in the summer of 2013 and set up shop for 6 weeks writing and arranging tracks that would eventually become material for their forthcoming full length debut Beauty in the Night. Returning to Different Fur Studios that fall the duo incorporated elements of synthesizer drone, 80s post-punk and dreamy soundscapes to the new collection of tracks.
Keep an eye out for Beauty in the Night due out late summer 2014.
Seatraffic formed in 2011 when Mark Zannad added drummer Brandon Harrison to his then fledging solo project based in San Francisco. Together the duo wrote and recorded their self-titled EP merging together synth minded, layered pop with Harrison's background in northern California hardcore.
Following the initial EP the duo began recording at Different Fur Studios with Nic Pope in 2012 and released a string of singles as well as their Crimes 7" which included a handful of solid remixes.
As the project began to gain momentum Zannad headed out to Seal Rock, Oregon in the summer of 2013 and set up shop for 6 weeks writing and arranging tracks that would eventually become material for their forthcoming full length debut Beauty in the Night. Returning to Different Fur Studios that fall the duo incorporated elements of synthesizer drone, 80s post-punk and dreamy soundscapes to the new collection of tracks.
Keep an eye out for Beauty in the Night due out late summer 2014.
Tuesday, June 10, 2014
Papertwin "Arco"
Papertwin has been playing music together since 2009, formed by Max Decker after narrowly escaping a lucrative career as a landscape painter. After two homespun EPs, the band is set to release their first studio collaboration, Vox Humana, on June 17.
Recorded under the guidance of producer Abe Seiferth (Yeasayer, Eleanor Friedberger, Turing Machine, DFA's Plantain Studios), and mastered by Joe Laporta (Vampire Weekend, Beach House), Vox Humana escalates the band's unique brand of synth-pop to new heights. Dreamy, dark, and nostalgically sci-fi, the EP features analog synthesizers, driving percussion, and reflective vocals. Drawing on influences from The Cure to Gillian Welch, Vox Humana builds upon the band's previous recordings Porcelain (2011) and Peru (2012).
Papertwin is comprised of Max Decker (vocals, guitar, synth), Francis Cardinale (drums, programming) and Nick Shopa (synth). They are friends, and have been for a while. Before forming Papertwin they were valet car parkers, land surveyors, piano tuners, landscape painters, denim tailors, movie popcorn poppers...and sometimes still are.
Beta Frontiers "Undone Things"
Wednesday, May 21, 2014
Tuesday, May 20, 2014
Watch Glass Animals Video "Pools"
Monday, May 19, 2014
Stream Parquet Courts "Instant Disassembly"
Friday, May 16, 2014
Arcade Fire - We Exist Video!
Thursday, May 15, 2014
Ludwig Persik - Willow Video!
Wednesday, May 14, 2014
Pains of Being Pure At Heart "Until the Sun Explodes" Shazam Experiment!
Straight out of a dream and onto the screen... The Pains of Being Pure at Heart share a Jem and The Holograms inspired anime style music video today for "Until The Sun Explodes" which you can watch exclusively via Shazam. Here's how it works: play this 15 second video clip, and then using your mobile device, tag it using the Shazam app and it will unlock the full-length video.
Days of Abandon is out now via Yebo in North America and via Fierce Panda in the UK/EU on June 2.
The band is currently on tour and will wrap its North American run of
shows with a homecoming gig at Bowery Ballroom. In case you missed it,
check out the video for the album's first single, "Simple and Sure."
The album was recorded at new Greenpoint studio House Under Magic which is owned by longtime Pains cohort Danny Taylor (ZaZa). Produced by Andy Savours (My Bloody Valentine, Patrick Wolf, Cloud Boat) and mixed by Charlie Hugall at London's Engine Room (Swim Deep, Florence And the Machine), The new record is the band's most musically sophisticated to date, channeling the gilded pop optimism of bands like Aztec Camera, The House of Love and The Lightning Seeds, while maintaining The Pains' penchant for earworm melodies and emotional candor.
"This album was a chance to push beyond Belong's universal style of songwriting into something that was far more personal and true to my ideals," says Kip Berman. "I wanted the music to be joyful, lush and full of possibility, even if the subjects were often more painful to confront."
The album artwork prominently features the work of newly celebrated South Korean artist Lee Jinju's work The Material of Mind.
Stream Gold-Bears - "Yeah, Tonight"
In the past two years since Gold-Bears released their debut album "Are You Falling in Love?," main Bear Jeremy Underwood gathered a new crop of friends to carry out his fuzz-filled visions. "Dalliance" is more focused and abrasive than that 2011 debut, combining their noise-pop influences from forebears like Boyracer and The Wedding Present with shades of the post-hardcore, emo and post-punk on which the band all cut their musical teeth. This is not to say that Gold-Bears gave up impossibly catchy song-writing, just that their signature indie punk anthems are now even sharper, the guitars even more slashing, and the songs even more harrowing and heartfelt than ever.
"Dalliance" opens with the anthemic "Yeah, Tonight," a proper pop song featuring a duet between Underwood and Emma Kupa (of the defunct London indiepop band Standard Fare) that sets the agenda right away — sharp melodies and even sharper guitars, all whizzing by in less than three minutes. “Chest” rushes in almost immediately after, barely two and a half minutes of punk energy and fizzing feedback.
The stomping "From Gainesville to Tallahassee" features a gnarly feedback guitar solo and backing vocals from Black Tambourine's Pam Berry. “Punk Song No. 15” is as described, a blazing flash that condenses the history of UK noisy pop into just over one minute. “I Hope They’re Right” and the lovely, jangling “Hey, Sophie” show how much the band have expand their range, slowing the pace, turning up the jangle and taking on the big subjects.
Gold-Bears cover a lot of territory, musical and lyrical, in "Dalliance"’s 32 minutes and by the time that we reach the miniature epic of closer “Fathers And Daughters” we realize that we’re watching a band and a song-writer hit their stride, turning in an album that’s exciting, thoughtful and infectious.
Monday, February 17, 2014
Carsick Cars - 15 Minutes Older - Free Track Download!
Carsick Cars is one of the most established indie rock bands in China. Their much anticipated third studio album 3, produced by Sonic Boom of Spacemen 3 and Hamish Kilgour of The Clean, in New York, is set to be released on February 28th, on Maybe Mars.
Y . O . U - Heavy Crown
'Heavy Crown' is the first official release from Manchester based Y.O.U (Your Own Universe) out via Tigersushi this spring.
Thursday, February 13, 2014
T.W.i.N.S. - Republic Of Banana - Free Track Download
New EP 'T.W.i.N.S' our March 3rd via Split Records.
Papercuts - Still Knocking At The Door
Life Among The Savages due out 5/6 on Easy Sound Recording Co.
Tuesday, February 11, 2014
WOODS - Moving To The Left
From the upcoming Woods album, "With Light And With Love" out April 15th on Woodsist Records.
Monday, February 10, 2014
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