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You will find traces of any good pop you’ve ever loved with Warm Weather, especially those that come littered with vocal harmonies

The members of WALK have more than demonstrated they can write a killer rock tune without ignoring catchiness and pop sensibilities.

TweetShare Like a gift to our ears from 1976 comes “You Take Time” by Bleached. I find it strange that when brothers create a band more often than not it ends up being some chilled out folk/harmony kind of thing but when sisters get together it’s almost the status quo for them to come out [...]

TweetShare Buy Thundercat’s “The Golden Age Of Apocalypse” – Vinyl / MP3 / CD Los Angeles is currently the best place to be for any artist whose music relies on the aid of an MPC. Are you a rapper? Acts like Blu, Odd Future, and The Far East Movement are popping on a national level. [...]

TweetShare There’s a jangled brush in “The Dive,” the lead track on Los Angeles band Fool’s Gold’s sophomore release “Leave No Trace.” It’s a tightly confined cross-breed of Western African harmonies and contemporary pop aesthetics. That should sound familiar: it isn’t too far off the well-worn path already travelled by Talking Heads and, even more [...]

TweetShare LA four piece Stone Darling are a shoegaze band with a hint of country. Or should I say a country outfit with shoegaze trimmings? It’s tough to say which genre is in the driving seat with this group, especially when their latest seven inch is split so squarely down the middle. “I Stopped Missing [...]

TweetShare Buy the album on Amazon – Vinyl | MP3 | CD Pepper Rabbit, the New Orleans-born but Los Angeles-based duo that consists of Xander Singh and Luc Laurent, are a dreamy yet cerebral outfit.  Their sound and image is almost avant-garde, and their last record and debut LP, “Beauregard,” was a lo-fi, multi-instrumentalist wonder, [...]

TweetShare If you follow us on Twitter you’ll know how excited I got when Jeremy over at Vagrant dropped off Active Child’s debut album “You Are All I See” in my inbox. I was fairly fucking excited, and I ended up listening to the album for most of the night. Over the last couple of months [...]

TweetShare  If The Cure did electro-pop, they might end up sounding something like Letting Up Despite Great Faults. Maybe Robert Smith could get a haircut while he was at it, although I guess that would just be a nicety. Also, I heard that that’s where he gets his power. He’s like a really miserable, weedy [...]

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TweetShare Like Vangelis but not as cheesy or parodied, Active Child’s been making moves lately with the songs he’s been putting up and the hauntingly beautiful soundscapes he’s created in and around them. With “Hanging On”, the last song of his we heard, the sound on said track was slow and rhythmic with gorgeous vocals [...]

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TweetShare Good music is like buses: you go through a slow patch and then a whole bunch comes along all at once. Of course, unlike buses, you don’t have to pick and choose which bits to take, so who’s complaining? Recently-featured D33J turned me on to his old school-mate Hank May, who performs as Rock Dove. [...]

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TweetShare For folks who love alt-country music, or go out to see live bands in the Dallas area, this band needs no introduction. They’ve been going strong since 1994, when they released their first album “Hitchhike To Rhome”. That’s not a spelling error, it’s a little Texan town outside the Dallas/Fort Worth metroplex, population 1967. [...]