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TweetShare With every new song that I hear from Cults, my anticipation-chubby gets that little bit more anticipatory. Does that even make sense? I don’t fucking know, but with the rash of new bands that came out last year and released/are releasing an album this year, Cults and Yuck might be the only two who [...]

TweetShare Meet The Rubbish Zoo. Self-proclaimed cowboys from Cheyenne, Wyoming who moved out to Los Angeles to make it in the big city. Well readers, giddy-yup; we’ve got the golden formula to an indie explosion. Take a bunch of humble hunks and throw their talent into indie-pop hooks and here we’ve got The Rubbish Zoo. [...]

TweetShare Unless you’ve seen Cults live in the last 12 months then this new song is the first in close to a year (except that “Oh My God” one they did with accompanying weird video). This time in 2010 they had only just come bounding onto the scene, layered-guitar-driven-dream-pop in tow.  They had upload three [...]

TweetShare In an effort to try to become more relevant, not necessarily to their name but just towards music in general, MTV have launched (March 16th) a new site called MTV Hive which is aimed at music discovery with a slant towards the indie side of things. Just looking at their homepage you’ll see artists [...]

TweetShare Subscribing to a new band’s Bandcamp RSS feed sometimes has its benefits. Usually they’re dormant, or at least the ones I subscribe too, but every now and again you’ll see them update and boom, an entire new album or EP to listen to for free and you’re one of the first to hear it. [...]

TweetShare Worcester, Massachusetts rockers Dom already made a name for themselves with the release of last year’s “Sun Bronzed Greek Gods” EP. The EP was a stellar collection of poppy, sparkling indie rock tracks. The band is back with a brand new song, “Bowl Cut”. “Bowl Cut” is another shining tune. It features lead singer, [...]

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 Short, sweet, and to the point. Easy tigers, I’m not talking about myself, although I am fairly short and my head does get all pointy at the top like Dan Aykroyd’s.  I’m talking about Shimmering Stars from British Columbia, Canada.  Whilst their sound is upbeat, harmonious, sunny, and can quench thirst at the drop [...]

TweetShare Guards have been one of those acts to get genuinely excited about this year, popping up outta nowhere back in July and then people went nuts for them, mainly because it was so fucking solid. Well “them” is actually just one dude, Richie Follin, who’s the brother of Madeline Follin, the other half of [...]

TweetShare Photography by me. “Rest is not idleness, and to lie sometimes on the grass on a summer day listening to the murmur of water, or watching the clouds float across the sky, is hardly a waste of time.” – John Lubbock I’ve been toying with the idea of putting together a mixtape for a [...]

TweetShare I know next to nothing about this band, other than Cults made a tweet late last night/early this morning saying they were featured on the new EP by a band called Guards and they linked to their Bandcamp page. So check it out I did and I’m glad I did, because it’s pretty fucking [...]

TweetShare I gush, what can I say?  Sorry?  Ok, maybe sometimes a “sorry” is warranted, but most of the time it’s not because I’m not the only one gushing. The latter part of that sentence is definitely true for Cults.  I gushed back in March when they showed up unannounced out of nowhere and turned us all [...]

TweetShare Along with Gauntlet Hair, Sleigh Bells, BRAHMS, and Burnt Ones, Cults round out my top five buzz bands of the year so far. They burst onto the scene back in late February, early March with three ridiculously catchy songs, the biggest hit of which was “Go Outside”.  This is what appears to be the [...]

TweetShare One of my most loved discoveries of 2010 so far is Gauntlet Hair, a duo from Lafayette, Colorado creating catchy lo-fi, layered garage-rock, with a huge beat. I featured them about a month ago and included three of their songs.  At that time they had only just revealed they were releasing their debut single [...]

TweetShare Cults, the mysterious and much hyped band that burst onto the scene a few weeks back have signed with Forest Family Records.  FFR is a brand new record label, founded by Gorilla vs Bear and Weekly Tape Deck, and their first release is a limited 7″ run of 400 copies of “Go Outside” (the [...]