Listen Before You Buy

Check out Gauntlet Hair’s new 7″ single lead-track “My Christ”.

Watch the new video for Gauntlet Hair’s song “Top Bunk”, taken from the album “Gauntlet Hair”.

TweetShareWatch the new video for Gauntlet Hair‘s song “Keep Time” below, taken from the album “Gauntlet Hair”.

TweetShare Listen to the debut self-titled album by Gauntlet Hair below. Who has two thumbs, likes Gauntlet Hair (the band, not the style), and has waited a year and a half for this debut? This dude, right here.  Gauntlet Hair‘s debut album has been a long and agonising wait for myself and a host of others too [...]

TweetShare This new track from Gauntlet Hair is taken from their much-anticipated debut album “Gauntlet Hair”, out via Dead Oceans on October 18th. The album’s been a long-time-coming, especially after falling in love with the band about a year and a half ago, that’s a long-assed time to wait. While their sound isn’t for everyone, they do [...]

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 All of the songs listed below were personally chosen by the artist or blogger above. I got in touch with a lot of artists and bloggers who were all kind enough to get back to me and take part in Desert Island Discs. If you’re unaware of the concept behind Desert Island Discs, check out the [...]

TweetShare You know what, fuck it; I’ll just say it. MAKE OUT MUSIC. Nobody Wave are just two dudes, Chris Kokiousis and Greg Kestenbaum, from LA (represent!) that are making good ol’ fashioned lo-fi surf-inspired rock. I think it’s so easy to love this music because I feel like I know these dudes; c’mon, we [...]

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 When Jordan (J. Irvin Dally) first introduced himself to me back in July, I fell in love with his music almost instantaneously. As I described his music back then, he embodies the spirit of Jeff Buckley and the passion of Cat Power, his two-tone voice layered like a cake over the delicately plucked guitar [...]

TweetShare If Gauntlet Hair released a new jam every week they’d still be six jams short of my Gauntlet Hair satisfaction quota, the one that can only be quelled by new tunes every day of the year. Because I know the chances of that happening are somewhat slim, I’m resorted to waiting (impatiently) for whenever [...]

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 If you’re unaware of what Music Monday is, it’s a Twitter recommendation system where users of Twitter share their favourite music, artists, genres, etc in order to not only find new music themselves but help others find new music too.  Using the hashtag (#) followed by “MusicMonday” you can easily find new music posted [...]

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 If you’re unaware of what Music Monday is, it’s a Twitter recommendation system where users of Twitter share their favourite music, artists, genres, etc in order to not only find new music themselves but help others find new music too.  Using the hashtag (#) followed by “MusicMonday” you can easily find new music posted [...]

TweetShare Another recent signing to the newly created label Forest Family Records is Gauntlet Hair, who now share the label with “Cults”, the excellent new Indie-Soul duo from San Diego. Gauntlet Hair are two BFFs (Andy and Craig) from Lafayette, Colorado who’ve been making music together since they were 15 and it shows, their sound [...]