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TweetShare At first I thought it’s an obscure cover for “Always On My Mind”, but it quickly absorbed into my head and now I can’t get it out from there. Former Simian and Black Ghosts member Simon Lords from London, UK hooked up with Rafter Roberts from San Diego, California and together with a little [...]

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TweetShare So, I think we’re all guilty of using these trendy horrible bullshit genre names that got so big in 2010… glo-fi, chillwave, witchhouse, new new wave, fuckin’ I don’t know rape-wave. These little gems have lit up your local computer screen and salt and peppered their way across the blogs. I refuse to do [...]

TweetShare Hailing from San Diego, California, you would expect Tape Deck Mountain to have fully embraced the omnipresent surf-rock movement that has beset the indie landscape in the last few years.  Hell, their own photos foreshadow such a sound, just see above.  Also, their new EP is entitled the “Secret Serf EP…”  (I am sure [...]

TweetShare It’s been almost five months since I last posted about The Moviegoers, introducing you to their Lo-Fi Summer Pop sound, and now they’ve released a video for their single “Avalanche”. It’s appropriate since it’s cold and a lot of the world is covered in snow at the moment, getting trapped on roads or in [...]

TweetShare With the holiday season upon us, it is important to remember that the best gifts come in the smallest packages. The self-titled EP by TV Girl provides a telling example of this axiom. Self-released on Bandcamp on October 21, 2010, TV Girl could have easily fallen into the digital dollar bin given their relatively [...]

TweetShare When a band can manage to combine the melodies of The Beach Boys, the guitar-noise of mid 90s grunge, and the vocals of Echo And The Bunnymen in one 3:26 song, and make it work seemlessly, chances are that when you get to 3:27 you’re just gonna hit repeat. That’s how The Moviegoers roll [...]

TweetShare Along with Tennis and Best Coast, Lights On are bringing sweet retro-influenced summer pop to brighten up everyone’s day, regardless of what the weather outside is actually like. The four-piece may hail from sunny San Diego, but their new single “Red Lights Flashing” abounds in nods to past Brit-indie acts, from The Wedding Present [...]

TweetShare Dark, brooding, and Gothic, Blessure Grave from San Diego blend music from The Cure, Joy Division and Cocteau Twins into one frighteningly atmospheric and introspected sound that can either instigate a bad mood and get you out of one, but bad moods are awesome (they give you license to be a justifiable dick to anyone!) so [...]