A tie-dyed riff plays on an infinite loop, inevitably joined by ambient sounds before the entire enterprise succumbs to a tsunami of sound. Such is the state of things with Chicago’s Axis: Sova who channels Cream and Black Sabbath on…
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A jaunty pop kernal, “Mind Your Manors” is the new single from Hamilton, Ontario’s The Bandicoots. The band will release their eponymous EP on 14 April. Answering the eternal question of “Where’s Waldo?” we now know he’s in a Canadian…
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Adopting the moniker Energy Slime, the duo of Jay Arner and Jessica Delisle waste no time on their debut release, New Dimensional. Fitting 10 songs into an economic 13 minutes, all of which reside within the grooves of a 7″…
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Some 20 years too late, “Katydid,” the new single from Missouri’s Cantalouper, would have been an MTV and pop radio staple alongside Nada Surf and Weezer. It’s sad how times have changed. Getting their start with help from David Bazan,…
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Heavy on booze and symbolism, “Brother Comfort” is the latest video from Brooklyn’s Brook Pridemore. Set to issue a video for every song on his 2014 release, Gory Details, “Brother Comfort” is a visual yarn of self-destruction where the only…
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Arizona’s Human Behavior will never be accused of writing uplifting songs. The loose collective’s blend of droning folk tales on their latest album, Bethpage, deal explicitly with depression, religion, politics and identity. The second in a planned trilogy following 2013’s…
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Things will be quiet here this week as I’m busy hanging at Couch By Couchwest. I suggest you do the same.
Moving at a tectonic rate, “Golden Days” is the first single from Seattle renaissance artist Shana Cleveland‘s (La Luz) long-gestating project Shana Cleveland & The Sandcastles. Six years in the making, the group’s debut album, Oh Man, Cover The Ground,…
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Recording under the moniker of The Paper Shades, British duo Jon Rixon and Sarah Dollar have spent the years since the 2012 release of their Where You Lay EP on the road, testing out new material for their planned debut…
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Having premiered Bear Medicine‘s The Moon Has Been All My Life in October, it is with great joy that I can announce the band has issued the album on vinyl. Limited to 200 copies, this one-time release of The Moon…
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