Video for the track “Last Name London,” which is coming off Theophilus London’s forthcoming LP, Timez Are Weird These Days. That LP is getting a July 19th release via Warner Bros. As you may already know, I dug the EP to drop earlier this year a lot.
Download: Vacation- The Do Shit Disc Vacation is a lively new garage punk band from Cincinnati, Ohio. Their first CD release, entitled The Do Shit Disc, was also released on cassette as The Do Shit Tape. Now it’s online for free. Clocking in at just under fifteen minutes, the
Ulcerate’s latest album might not hit the spot for fans of the New Zealand group’s more hectic material, but it definitely resonated with me. The relentless drumming and dissonant guitar passages create an ugly atmosphere that’s ever-evolving. These guys display an extreme level of technical precision on
From New York via New Zealand, Lips is the solo project of Stephanie Brown. Back in her homeland, she played keyboards in numerous groups, but came to the U.S. in ’07 to make a name for herself as a solo musician. She’s got an EP that she dropped
Sleeping Bag by Sleeping Bag Despite a somewhat sloppy presentation, the songwriting and melodies behind Sleeping Bag’s debut LP are sturdy enough to withstand hurricane-force winds. On “Slime,” the drums set a steady pace against a deadpan vocal and downstroke’d guitar. The verses sound almost sleepy, but the
MP3 Hot of the release of two EPs in the past year, L.A.’s Superhumanoids have a new 7″ record out on White Iris. “Mikelah” is a slow-burning electronic jam with a hazy melody capturing that current mid-summer feel. The distant male vocals of the verse’s are counterbalanced
MP3 Although we haven’t heard much from Surfer Blood regarding plans for a new album, the Florida power pop outfit has been keeping busy since the release of its debut, Astro Coast, last year. This past weekend, the group brought their sunny guitar leads and melodies to Denmark for
50’s by House of Wolves When I was first introduced to House of Wolves, I was confused. According to his facebook page, House of Wolves is a solo project of Rey Villalobos, a singer-songwriter from California. Although he’s a man, I could have sworn that the vocals I
While it certainly doesn’t seem as official as John Maus’ video for “Head for the Country,” the eerie and sci-fi movie footage strung together in this video seems pretty appropriate for the track “Cop Killer”–admittedly, one of my favs from Maus’ latest LP, which we’ve got an
BADBADNOTGOOD by BADBADNOTGOOD Last month, I talked up some live videos from Canada’s Bad Bad Not Good, which is a young jazz trio of sorts. I’d call them “jazz fusion,” but that hardly addresses what they’re fusing together. Rather than welding jazz with some rock or funk,
