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Keep Shelly In Athens have covered The Jesus And Mary Chain’s classic “Just Like Honey” for charity.

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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 [...]

TweetShare At some point I was arm-twisted into watching “Clueless”. I deny all allegations that I secretly quite enjoyed it. It did have two saving graces: first, Donald Faison; second, a surprisingly good soundtrack. One track featured on it was “My Forgotten Favorite” by Velocity Girl. The point of this story, insofar as any of [...]

TweetShare Seapony got some attention around blog parts with their debut single “Dreaming” last year. I personally loved their hazy-yet-poppy sound and have been looking forward to their debut full length since that song dropped. Well, now “Go With Me” is here and “Dreaming” is the lead track. It’s as cute as ever, and should [...]

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TweetShare I make no secret of loving early ’90s music, so I’m being totally spoiled by this shoegaze revival that seems to be under way at the moment. I mean, obviously I’m one of the people who would say that it never went away, but for once the rest of the world seems to be [...]

TweetShare Some bands seem to lead a charmed life, they form, hit the big time, part as friends and then ride off into the sunset. For every band that happens to though, there are dozens of bands that end up as a clash of egos ending in splits and acrimony. Occasionally however a band breaks up [...]

TweetShare Brooklyn lo-fi poppers, Vivian Girls, are going to be bringing you some more of their classic garage-rock and girl-group inspired tunes this Spring. The trio has announced that their third album, “Share The Joy”, will be released April 12th on Polyvinyl Records (this is their first release for the label) and they’ve offered up [...]

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 So yesterday when I posted Cloud Nothings’ new track from his/their upcoming self-titled album it got the attention of Kevin Greenspon. If you’re a fan of Cloud Nothings then you’ll know who he is, but if not, they released a split album earlier this year comprising of five songs each, and he also released [...]

TweetShare Yet another fine song from Indianapolis’, soon-to-be-San Franciscan three-piece Burnt Ones. Last week….or was it the week before……I can’t remember, I’m posting so much about these guys lately it’s difficult to keep track. Ok, it was last week I posted a live video of them taken at the end of June and last weekend [...]

TweetShare Last night (Saturday July 10th) saw Burnt Ones release their highly anticipated, sure-to-be critically acclaimed debut album “Black Teeth & Golden Tongues”. They only released it in Indiana last night, with a national release coming on August 10th via Dodge’s new label Roaring Colonel Records.  Below there’s an excellent video of them performing their [...]

TweetShare I’ve been harping on about these guys for a couple of months now (are you tired of it yet?) and the more I listen to their handful of available songs the more and more their debut album “Black Teeth & Golden Tongues” becomes one of my most anticipated albums of the year. Back then [...]

TweetShare Indianapolis three-piece Burnt Ones describe their sound as “a broken radio with a tape-deck full of magic mushrooms”, and they’re pretty spot on.  Their four publicly available songs switch between Glam, Surf, Garage, and Lo-Fi, interspersed with all manner of fuzzed-up bass riffs by Brian Allen, reverberating drum beats by Amy Crouch, and the vocals [...]

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 [...]