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The Morning Benders are pop music with a twist of lemon. Nice. Above, the Berkeley band visit Carson Daly’s Last Call for a short interview and a performance of Big Echo’s “All Day Day Light”, likely from their most recent stop at LA’s Music Box on October 14.

In the above teaser for Blogotheque’s latest ‘Soirees De Poche’ (coming to the site in October), The Morning Benders debut beautiful new song, “Virgins”, in an incredibly intimate acoustic setting that is likely someone’s living room. Chris Chu points out that they’ve never played it live before, making it all the more perfect. (@YT)

The Morning Benders‘ “All Day Day Light” season changing vid corresponds well with September 1. Clap. Clap. Clap. (Stereogum)

I’m well aware that the halfway mark of a year occurs at the end of June. However, it’s only July 23. Calm down! I don’t usually do my Best Songs of the Year in this format (I prefer less stressful, unnumbered playlists), but I felt compelled on my flight to NY last week to put [...]

The Morning Benders are good, huh? The San Francisco band are offering up Big Echo B-side, “Go Grab a Stranger,” as a limited tour only 7″, but the psychedelic Grizzly-Bender could have easily been an album highlight on their Best of the Year ish. Track it down at one of the band’s upcoming shows (including [...]

If you managed to stop playing The Morning Benders’ “Excuses,” on repeat (the lead-off track from their Top 10 worthy Rough Trade debut, Big Echo), you might have made it to “Promises.” Check out the Focus Creeps directed video featuring 10 year old alcoholic bank robbers, ‘The Morning Benders,’ above. The band recently landed the [...]

The Morning Benders looked and sounded like a seasoned veteran band last night at the Troubadour in LA, despite not looking a day over 16. I’m actually not sure how old they are (18?), and for the most part, it couldn’t have mattered less. Lead singer and guitarist Chris Chu, though still adjusting to the [...]

The Morning Benders’ Big Echo is quickly becoming a top 10 contender for Twentyten. It’s already been decided that “Excuses” is the song of the year (after all 10 Teen Dream tracks, of course). Stream the entire sun kissed, Chris Taylor produced Rough Trade debut on their site. It has been heavily Grizzly Beared, and [...]

Berkeley’s The Morning Benders are gearing up for the release of their album, Big Echo, on March 9 via Rough Trade. Last Friday, the band gave away their lovely single, “Excuses,” for the price of an email address on their website, where you can also stream the abundantly Grizzly Bear’d track “Promises” (the album is [...]