Switching things up to the other coast now, I got news of another new release from The Snowy Owls. This time it’s a split with Hoax Hunters on Cherub Records for Record Store Day. I’ve done a bit of writing about The Snowy Owls in the…
Trans-Records is releasing a split 7″ featuring “Never Give Up” from Walla and “Incredibly Still” by Sombear on Record Store Day. These are two pretty elegant tracks, with the Walla track (Chris Walla, guitarist/producer from Death Cab For Cutie) being quite a somber piano driven…
The first five or six times I read this band name it was a real tongue twister. Gossip Gospel? Gospel Gospel? Gossip Gossip? Ah! Gospel Gossip! I’m not 100% sure I would have given it a fair listen if it weren’t for the interesting name….
When you think about it, is it technically an album review if there are only two tracks? Maybe I should say “EP Review”? Either way, I figure this way people understand what I am getting at…and what I’m getting at is this band I recently…
Summerays dropped the Toyohashi 7″ two days ago and I’ve been digging it. Hailing from Cleveland, Summerays was originally the vision of Luke Teeters and has since expanded into a four piece outfit that is definitely worth checking out. “Toyohashi” opens with bright riffs and just…
Check it out, there’s a new track from indie co-op The Babies and it’s awesome. “Moonlight Mile” has this hypnotic fuzzy sound, with vocals from Kevin Morby taking the forefront in this track.The ghostly backing vox from Cassie Ramone really give the track an interesting…
San Francisco’s Seatraffic are rapidly approaching the release of the Crimes 7″, which is also coincidentally their first physical release. The duo creates a certain blend of dreamy electronic pop that has regularly managed to find it’s way into my heart. Scanning back through the archives…
Darlingside released the first of their wonderful 7” series to the world today, all in buildup to their upcoming album Pilot Machines which will be completed and released later this year. The good news? As they are in the studio working on Pilot Machines, they are…
It’s been ridiculously warm here in Virginia this winter. I think we’ve had three days of temperatures below freezing, as well as no snow here in the Richmond area. This is unheard of weather. I’m used to November/December/January being below freezing, and at least a…
Gauntlet Hair – My Christ Naming implications of both song and band aside, listen to “My Christ” and tell me you don’t hear magic coming out of Colorado. No, I’m not talking about Tebow time – this is Gauntlet Hair! Sounding in equal parts like…
