The Joy Formidable finally releases A Balloon Called Moaning in the US
Finally. The Welsh, indie, noise-pop band The Joy Formidable released their fantastic EP A Balloon Called Moaning in the US last week. It’s been available…
Grey Oceans
Grey Oceans sounds like a night in the desert, which makes sense, as CocoRosie's fourth full length is released after Sierra and Bianca Casady moved…
World Record
Blunt Mechanic is a great name for a band shedding the viscosity of main dude Ben Barnett's basement bawl over gobs of releases as Kind…
The Brutalist Bricks
"If there's one place where you're scared, it's a bunker." So said urbanist, art critic, and political theorist Paul Virilio in an interview in a…
Avi Buffalo
Avigdor Zahner-Isenberg was a Long Beach skateboarder who played a solo set at a local vegan restaurant. Eventually his fear of damage caused by "shredding…
Beach House: Teen dream, indeed
{Photo: Suzi/Spratt 504} Before the band came out on stage Monday night, Neumos looked like a high school gym after a dance- lot's of tinsel. Unlike…
How I Learned to See in the Dark
{Chris Pureka plays next month at the Tractor on May 12th, and in Portland at Mississippi Studios on May 14th. Ramaya Soskin opens both shows.}…
Adrift In The Cosmos
Adrift In The Cosmos is the work of vocalists/guitarists Josh Dawson and Sonny Votolato, keyboardist/backing vocalist Dave E. Martin, Paul Pugliese on bass, and Eric…
Brand new song from Still Flyin
{photo from press release} We're pleased to bring you a brand new song from our favoritist hammjamm million piece San Francisco Band, Still Flyin. Imaginary…
Cracked Love & Other Drugs
It's kind of appropriate that last summer in Seattle hometown kerosine-crunch bashers Unnatural Helpers assisted Billy the Fridge and the other Top Pot celebrities fete…