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The Morning Clouds’s Josh Wambeke makes songs that are as lush and teenage dreamy as Beach House, as pop and sunny as a lazy Beach Boys single, with the ability to lose themselves in the influence of Nirvana and My Blood Valentine.

Cults’ debut, released in June, is one of my favorite albums of the year. The New York duo share a lot of common traits with Colorado band South Of France, so understandably, I’m really digging their debut, “Kings EP”.

TweetShare This pleases me greatly. Greatly,  I tell thee! Last year the two dudes from Lafayette, Colorado that compromise Gauntlet Hair burst onto the “scene” with the pitch-perfect noise-concoction of debut single “I Was Thinking” and a couple of other jams equally as raucous.  The pair then released the single on vinyl via the newly-minted Forest [...]

TweetShare While on tour, Mumford and Sons stopped by Colorado radio station, KBCO to perform “The Cave” and a new song that is untitled, but has been dubbed “Home” by the listeners.  Mumford and Sons have been on tour for some time now, stopping by the Grammys for a mega-collaboration with the one and only [...]

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TweetShare After impressing pretty much everyone with his debut EP “Boyfriend”, James Nee is back with his trees for the followup, “Girlfriend”. This afternoon the dudes over at Turntable Kitchen premiered “I Don’t Believe In Love”, one of the new cuts from the EP, but now you can hear the whole thing from his Bandcamp [...]

TweetShare When James (the head-honcho) from We Are Trees sent me the demo for “Afraid Of Love” at the start of February, I was under the impression that it’d be on his upcoming EP “Girlfriend”, but not so! He just sent over the first single from that EP and on his Bandcamp page the tracklist [...]

TweetShare I had a long distance relationship once.  Well I say long distance.  I lived just north of the M25 and she lived in the Isle of Wight (both in the UK in case you were wondering).  It lasted about 6 months and then she met a sailor (also called Andy, strangely) and that was [...]

TweetShare Ok, so it’s not new, but relatively few people have heard this as it was the accompanying b-side on their second 7″ single “Out, Don’t..” that was released back in October on Mexican Summer. When I initially got the 7″ I had just a shitty 1979 Light & Sound machine portable turntable that I [...]

TweetShare Late night surprises are extremely rare (at least the good ones anyway), but I got one in the wee small hours of this morning. In my Direct Messages on Twitter was a message from the dude who runs The Leaving Scene linking me to a new Tennis track.  It’s the B-side to their just-released [...]

TweetShare Cory Bannon, the dude behind +VIBES, sent this track to me back at the start of July and I’m only getting around to posting it today. sadface He’s been doing mashups for past 9 months or so out of Boulder, Colorado, and is looking for more of an audience and that’s why I’m here, [...]

TweetShare One of the blogs I frequent and trust with new music is Knox Road. There are a few people who, when posting new music, I’ll always listen to because I trust their taste, and Knox Road is one of them.  Last week they posted about I Am The Dot and before I got the [...]

TweetShare Tennis have been blowing up lately, in large part thanks to Weekly Tape Deck, Gorilla Vs Bear, and then Pitchfork.   Also in large part to them being just straight up fucking awesome and drowning in summer sun and warm winds. A couple of weeks ago I posted two of their songs, then another [...]

TweetShare I owe this guy an apology. 22 year-old James Cooley (or Mesita under his musical moniker) sent me his music a while ago and it’s taken me this long to get it up on the site.  So apologies, James. He’s been releasing music for a couple of years now, most of which is available [...]

TweetShare No sooner had I made my post about Tennis than Patrick (from Tennis) had sent me a mastered version of “South Carolina”, a song that was previously only available as a demo.  He sent it to me yesterday, so I apologise for the delay, but it’ll be worth it. Well now you have three [...]