Reminiscent of so many bands of yesteryouth, muddled with our generation’s lazing indie spirit, Adventure Galley strikes a certain note of dance party agelessness. A monolithic keyboard facade made of an old radio stands boldly centered at their live show, the one steadfast bolt amidst wildly flying notes, dancing fans and soaring singalong melodies that [...]
Bare bass lines and synthy reverberations provide the perfect floor for the dirty dancey lyrics of Reverse Dotty. With 1977 grit and 1985 keyboards, their latest release Licorice Whips will whip you into beatbound fervor only to be danced away. Pick up this album and melt away into the night!
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And here it is. From the great land of bubble machines, nostalgia, a lot of tangled ribbon, and Teddy Ruxpin singing along with the Fresh Prince, comes the perfect tape for your days off, your ride to work, or for impromptu dance parties in your living room. It’s Mixed Ape Number One, from the tapiest [...]
THE BQE- A Film By Sufjan Stevens from Asthmatic Kitty on Vimeo.
On the wave of his most recent project, The BQE, which celebrates the magnanimous Brooklyn-Queens Expressway, the sultan of folk cacophony, Sufjan Stevens, is embarking on a tour so fitting of an album celebrating transit. From Montreal to Portland to Los Angeles to New [...]
I remember guarding my Fisher-Price tape deck like it way the Holy Grail. The eraser on a No. 2 Ticonderoga was less about erasing my horrible math and more about making sure I could listen to Oingo Boingo’s “Dead Man’s Party” just one more time before the sea of brown ribbon took over my room. [...]
Somewhere between epic build-ups, a booming church choir, and imploding indie instrumentation hide the songscapes of Drew Grow. Drew Grow & The Pastors Wives, of Amigo/Amiga Recordings, have been steadily releasing song after song over the past few months, and the vinyl has finally spun full circle to their self-titled first full length album! Pre-orders [...]
Secretly energetic and underwhelmingly chill, Moon Visionaries mix a toe-tap with a guitar riff, a tambourine shake with lulling vocals, and you don’t know whether to fall into its smooth recesses or just get down! This London four piece vibrates secret dance music under a veil of indie rock, channeling the likes of Phoenix and [...]
This came back up on my mp3 music player when I was riding around downtown LA trying to score some fireworks that have high flying colors brighter than the law would allow. Broken Bells is the fantastically delightful mind-child collabosky between James Mercer (Shins) and Dangermouse (Gnarls Barkley’s beat making half). This super [...]
I just listened to Mount Wittenberg Orca EP and I think Bjork just cast a spell on my mind. This collaboration between The Dirty Projectors and Bjork is 21-minutes of insane vocal madness that started from a benefit show in Manhattan’s Housing Works Book shoppe. Bits of electronic/noise and instruments but that’s really [...]
DC Philly piano-pop Trio, Jukebox The Ghost, are rolling out their Sophomore, Everything Under The Sun, in early September! Don’t you love indie pop songs? Yes we do too. This is the band that people always compare to Ben Folds which is great cause I love Ben Folds but these guys have [...]
Göteborg indie crooner, Mikael Carlsson, has called it a day. The Honeydrips project has run it’s last course with the single Höstvisa which has Mikael singing over “a recording of Tomas Blank conducting Göteborgs Symfonietta”…it’s beautiful. Needless to say we will miss all the beautiful songs of Here Comes The Future. Get [...]
One of the illest NYC quartets got a new video for their debut single White Night. The Postelles have an EP out right now called White Night and also have a debut coming around October. Get a track here. The single is below! And be sure to check them late [...]
What up world! Okay we got hecka sports up on your tv! World Cups and NBA championships! It’s crazy! Sports is one of the things that hold us together as a world…I think…and it’s one of the very few things. Music is the other huge one. Y’all are gonna [...]
Having escaped from the desertous Southern California, I’ve had to rethink my yearly music festival expectations from my ever-loved Coachella to myth-christened Sasquatch!, and outside of missing Gorillaz this year, I think the Pacific Northwest’s amazing summer music festival had the up and up. Fewer stages (so you get to see more [...]
I hate it when I see the impressive trailers of films at the next prestigious film festival and court off a feeling of utter anticipation…then the harsh reality lands on my brain, knowing full well that these eyes won’t ever see the film grain of nearly 3% of them. That’s down to the percent [...]
