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WATERS – ” Whats Real “

Posted: March 26, 2015 in MUSIC
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The New Album ‘What’s Real’ Available April 7th, 2015, “What’s Real” sees the San Francisco band pull together one of the catchier indie rock songs I’ve heard in a little while. The end result is something demonstrably “their own.” The group churns out frenetic pop anthems like nobody’s business, and though they’ve moved to Los Angeles, We’re only 8 days away from the release of Waters’ album What’s Real (not that I’m counting or anything), and to celebrate, the San Francisco quintet have unveiled the title song. Frontman Van Pierszalowski recently said that he wanted “What’s Real” to feel “almost gospel-like in the verses, and then explode into the choruses.” Sure enough he achieves exactly that on this explosive power pop anthem, which Pierszalowski added was “about separating from your fake friends and finding real ones” – something I’m sure many of us can associate with.

The group is heading out on tour with Matt & Kim this spring in the US , but not before announcing their newest release via Vagrant Records,

“I wanted to write songs about heartbreak, about finding clarity about feeling stuck in your hometown,” says front man Van Pierszalowski about the album. “And I wrote it with the hope that people connect with it in a visceral way. In an emotional way.”  That’s a notion prevalent in WATERS sound it’s real, and sometimes it’s written in anguish, but that doesn’t mean you can’t dance along to it.

“Stupid Games” below, is a prime example of that. Listen below, and grab the album when it drops April 7.

and some more songs from the album “Whats Real”

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AVID DANCER – ” An Introduction To Avid Dancer “

Posted: March 19, 2015 in MUSIC
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Los Angeles resident Jacob Summers makes music under the moniker Avid Dancer, with a sound that’s got one foot in a David Lynch movie and the other on tour with Lou Reed in 1973. (Both require a leather jacket.) Avid Dancer releases his new EP, I Want To See You Dance, and we’ve got the premiere of its closing track, an acoustic demo of “Medication,” which you can stream, along with the rockin’ title cut and a few other songs, below. The EP came out in October 2014 via Grand Jury.

Avid Dancer

 

Avid Dancer will be on the East Coast next week for a few shows, including a couple in NYC during CMJ.

THE BLACK RYDER – ” Santaria “

Posted: March 18, 2015 in MUSIC
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The Black Ryder are Los Angeles based ex Aussies Scott Von Ryper and Aimee Nash with a heavy shoegaze sound, their debut album in 2009 “Buy The Ticket Take The Ride” received lots of critical praise the band are back with a new album about to be released, this is the first single “Santaria” which features an ethereal drone and pounding drums building something sublime to a overwheming wave of gorgeous noise,

The COLD and the LOVELY – ” Radio “

Posted: March 16, 2015 in MUSIC
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The cozy sonics of the 90s—replete with vast reverb, driving basslines, and lush, girlish vocals—continues to appeal. What can we say? Nostalgia comes packaged in many forms, but none is more sweetly affecting than when you get swooped sideways by a song. And so it is with The Cold and the Lovely new track, “Radio,” premiering above: familiar but fresh.

The duo says of the EP, “The Ellis Bell is the vision that we had for the Cold and Lovely from the time the band was just an idea. The sound has been compared to some of our favourite bands, such as Lush, Garbage, My Bloody Valentine, and Silversun Pickups.”

Made up of Meghan Toohey (The Weepies, Lenka, Schuyler Fisk) and Nicole Fiorentino (latter-day Smashing Pumpkins, Veruca Salt), the LA duo will release heir new EP, Ellis Bell Deluxe, on June 17th. Ellis Bell, an EP by the Los Angeles-based shoegaze duo

 

 

LORD HURON – ” The World Ender “

Posted: March 15, 2015 in MUSIC
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Pre-order Strange Trails & get “The World Ender” instantly as a free download
Out 7th April 2015. “Fool For Love” opens with a delicate wash of humming bells, a distant organ drone and a few carefully plucked strings. It’s a beautiful, meditative mix that shimmers with the kind of hope and determination that only a new day can hold in its earliest hours, just after waking, before the inevitable letdown.
What unfolds after it is a sepia-toned story song from another time, when honorable men resorted to fisticuffs to win a woman’s heart. “I’m leaving this place behind, and I’m heading out on the road tonight,” sings frontman Ben Schneider. “Before I commence my ride, I’m askin’ Lily to be my bride.”

As Ben Schneider tells his tale, the music kicks along with cocksure resolve, punctuated by ringing guitar riffs and shuffling rhythms. It swells and ebbs like a sighing heart, heavy with the weight of love. But there’s a melancholy undertone to it all, as if he knows, down deep inside, he isn’t really going to get the girl, or if he is, it’ll never live up to his expectations. Sort of like the strange, uncertain looks Dustin Hoffman and Katharine Ross give each other at the end of The Graduate.

Based in Los Angeles, Lord Huron will release their sophomore full length, “Strange Trails”, on April 7th. It comes three years after the folk rock group’s 2012 debut, “Lonesome Dreams”.

GIRLPOOL – ” Jane “

Posted: March 15, 2015 in MUSIC
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Quickly rising Philadelphia-via-Los Angeles duo Girlpool gave their self-released debut EP a re-release on Wichita Records last year, and now they’re set to put out their first full length on the label. It’s called “Before The World Was Big“, and is due out on June 2nd. Their first single “Ideal World” is out now and you may recognize this one if you’ve seen them live. 

Girlpool are touring this year, including a run opening for Waxahatchee that hits NYC . They’ll also be at SXSW this month, where they’ll play a few shows including Speedy Ortiz and with  Metz, Mitski, Chastity Belt and more.

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The BLACK RYDER – ” Seventh Moon “

Posted: March 13, 2015 in MUSIC
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Official music video for “Seventh Moon” by The Black Ryder  a collaboration between Australian duo Aimee Nash & Scott Von Ryper now based in Los Angeles. Their debut album ‘Buy The Ticket, Take the Ride’ was released through Mexican Summer (USA) in September 2010 & EMI Music / The Anti-Machine Machine (Australia). Rolling Stone Magazine Australia included the album in their Top Albums of the Year. The much anticipated follow up to their acclaimed debut due for release February 2015, ‘The door behind the door’ transforms The Black Ryder’s kaleidoscopic sound and vision into something even more vivid, uncompromising, and sublime, bringing in new textures and emotions and moments of catharsis and transcendence.
New album – The Door Behind the Door – February 24th 2015

TALK IN TONGUES – ” She Lives In My House ” and ” Mas Doper “

Posted: March 12, 2015 in MUSIC
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Embracing the new wave of psychedelia, Los Angeles foursome Talk in Tongues definitely has it figured out. Though these guys only started practicing in early 2014, they have already made waves playing Noise Pop and Indigo Fest, as well as opening for Surfer Blood and Phantogram. With production from Kevin Augunas (Cold War Kids, Edward Sharpe), their full-length debut, “Alone With a Friend”, this May via Fairfax Recordings. They could be your favourite psych rock band check out “Talk In Tongues” 

 

NIGHTMARE AIR – ” Icy Daggers “

Posted: March 10, 2015 in MUSIC
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NIGHTMARE AIR is a rock band from Los Angeles, California, fronted by the dynastic duo of Dave Dupuis (guitar, vocals) and Swaan Miller (bass, vocals). As Nightmare Air, Dupuis, a veteran of L.A. shoegazers Film School (Beggars Banquet) and Miller, whose stark early-2000s acoustic album on Important Records melted hearts and faces everywhere, meticulously layer indie boy-girl harmonies, psych noise loops, fuzz-ripped bass and howling rock power into a fresh, upbeat sound all their own. With Detroit-raised heavy hitter Jimmy Lucido on drums, Nightmare Air put on a live show that’s earned them heaps of praise at home — “possibly one of L.A.’s loudest band” awesomely epic layered sounds In their many combined years of touring, these road veterans have supported heavyweights from Smashing Pumpkins to The Jesus and Mary Chain, Swervedriver to TV on the Radio. The summer and fall of 2012 saw Nightmare Air on an ambitious 3 ½ month world tour across the US, UK, and Europe playing festivals alongside The Buzzcocks, The Crocodiles, The Duke Spirit, Ice Age… as well over 40 club dates of there own. Also in 2012 in their hometown the band held support slots for Sonic Youth member Lee Ranaldo, UK legends The Wedding Present, as well as The Cult at their SXSW showcase. On the heals of the band’s 2010 EP Nightmare Air were chosen to headline four nights of Toronto’s Canadian Music Week, earning spins on the BBC and holding Top 10 status on college and indie radio in the US, Canada and the UK. Nightmare Air have recently completed their debut studio full-length coming out in early 2013 on Saint Marie Records worldwide with exception to Vinyl Junkie releasing the album in Japan. The record was mixed by Dave Schiffman (Nine Inch Nails, Black Rebel Motorcycle Club, The Mars Volta) with mastering by Howie Weinberg (Nirvana, Sonic Youth, The White Stripes). The album, still untitled and as-yet-unreleased, has already gotten its first kick of momentum — landing the track “Escape” featured on Under the Radar’s sampler CD and in Filter Magazines “Discovering the Undiscovered”

CHELSEA WOLFE – ” Lull “

Posted: March 8, 2015 in MUSIC
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the ocean waves of your chest are lulling me to sleep the ocean waves of your breath are lulling me, you’re lulling me to sleep

i’ve found a place for me to rest my head and sleep Lulling me, you’re lulling me to sleep,

the ocean waves of your chest are lulling me to sleep , have never been so content like a small child in peaceful dreaming, lulling me, you’re lulling me to sleep

Chelsea Wolfe is an American singer-songwriter from Sacramento, California, currently based now in Los Angeles. She is known for her “specific brand of drone-metal-art-folk”,characterized by experimental guitar playing, hazy vocals, and surreal soundscapes.. Wolfe debuted with her album The Grime and The Glow (2010),] released on an independent label, Pendu Sound Recording, followed by Apokalypsis (2011), which gained her recognition from indie critics as well as an underground following. In 2012, Wolfe released Unknown Rooms: A Collection of Acoustic Songs (2012) which featured a more folk-oriented sound as opposed to her earlier work, which had been heavily centered on droning guitars and distortion.

Wolfe’s fourth studio album, Pain Is Beauty, was released September 3, 2013. An album trailer was released alongside this announcement, as well as a North American headlining tour in the fall. The song “Feral Love” was featured in the trailers for Game of Thrones season 4 .

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