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In less than two and a half minutes “Doppleganger” showcases these guys out of Lafayette, Indiana’s ability to combine angsty lyrics with a seventies psychedelia that is an emotional roller coaster between tense intensity and spaced out atmospheric bliss.

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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 [...]

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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 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 Vacation Club are a four-piece from Lafayette and Indianapolis, Indiana,  comprised of Sam, Brandon, Jered, and Jacob.  They make infectious garage rock tunes, tinged with 50s doo-wop melodies and jangly guitars. I was turned onto them by Burnt Ones’ Facebook page, and since Burnt Ones make such good music themselves I had to trust [...]

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 [...]