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Ernest Gonzales (AKA Mexicans With Guns), previously poprokking with a remix of AnCo’s “My Girls” earlier this year, has himself another bloggable track with his take on A Sunny Day in Glasgow’s “Shy.” The bi-continental experimental pop band recently released their beautiful watch-the-sunset-to-me sophomore record, Ashes Grammar, and Gonzales’ version brings out the songs best qualities [...]

Long Beach’s Avi Buffalo and I found ourselves in the same place at the same time tonight. The newly signed Sub Pop band spent their Monday opening up for Vampire Weekend, who kicked off their Random California City Tour at an independent movie theater on East 4th Street in The LB (more on this later). [...]

Besides singer-songwriter Finn Andrews, London indie band, The Veils, have had a revolving door of members since their inception in 2001. This spring, Andrews and the latest incarnation released their 3rd LP, Sun Gangs, produced by Graham Sutton (Jarvis Cocker, British Sea Power). Though not as critically praised as their previous record, Nux Vomica (one [...]

The Deadly Syndrome’s “I Hope I Become a Ghost” is almost two years old, but after getting a recommendation for The World’s Greatest Dad, a dark comedy and 2009 Sundance film directed by Bobcat Goldthwait and starring Robin Williams, I can’t get enough of the soundtrack highlight. The movie has some limited release in the [...]

Shawn Chrystopher has been making the rounds on the hip hop blogs in recent months. His new mixtape, A City With No Reasons, caught my ear this morning while skimming his site. Chrystopher calls the release the “most artistic project of the year” (I love your big…ego). All of the tracks are co-produced by Chrystopher [...]

I never got turned on to The Vivian Girls, which is mostly due to the fact that I’m not big into girl bands and think there’s only been one great one (this one) (and mine), but is it just me or this kind of a lot better than anything on their debut? “The End,” a [...]

Currently doing the summer festival circuit in England on the strength of 3 demo recordings, Animal Kingdom (have fun Googling that one) recently released their first official single, “Tin Man,” via iTunes UK and their website. Trying to find things not to love here. The band’s dreamy, catchy, latter day Brit-pop circa Travis’ heyday is [...]

With the incessant fog, rain, and clouds of the past few weeks, I’ve inadvertently reverted back to my winter self. I’ve spent this time jogging to Radiohead records, and watching Coldplay Youtube videos of b-side performances. I’ve already described ad nauseam how I feel about Coldplay. So I’ll try my best not to repeat myself. [...]

What do the two members of Discovery have in common? Well, they both released OK albums in 2008 (I’m kidding, they were f*cking awesome), and they’re both from New York. Kinda. Also, Vampire Weekend (who are working on their sophomore album) keyboardist Rostam Batmanglij and Ra Ra Riot lead singer Wes Miles have been making [...]

“Rollin” is either by Kid Cudi featuring Jackie Chain or by Jackie Chain featuring Kid Cudi. Either way, I really like it a lot. The song samples Robert Miles’ “Children,” the trance hit from the 90′s that for some odd reason reminds me of summer camp. Jackie Chain first released the single last summer, but [...]