Seeking to restore harmony with nature, Portland, Oregon’s Johanna Warren questions traditional social mores in her video for “True Colors.” Taken from her most recent album, n?m?n, the video for “True Colors” marries occult ritual and primal urges, delivering a…
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Beach rock without a hint of Dick Dale courtesy of Seattle’s iji. “Eastern Beach,” the new single from the forthcoming Whatever Will Happen, is a sultry, summer trek down the right coast with frontman Zach Burba’s words bobbing along just…
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Returning with their 12th under-the-radar release of irreverent truth, the political father/son band Refried Ice Cream has delivered Cosmic Comic Book. A jazzy cacophony of Miles Davis, Tom Waits and Southern Culture on the Skids with a Texas drawl, “Solar Plane” cuts through…
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Touring and recording sporadically since releasing 2011’s In The Light EP, NY-based experimental artist Shana Falana took a no-second-guesses approach to her forthcoming debut LP, Set Your Lightning Fire Free. A musical Hydra, Falana’s disparate interests have always remained separate,…
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A symbiosis of art school-era Pete Townshend and The Jam’s refined punk, The Wave Pictures‘ “Pea Green Coat” is a quick mishmash of British blues and garage rock elements. The lead single from the trio’s forthcoming album, Great Big Flamingo…
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New Paltz, New York trio QUARTERBACKS will release their self-titled debut LP on 10 February 2015. Covering 19 songs in 22 minutes, the teenage indecisiveness that marks “Center,” the first single from QUARTERBACKS, is a too-true tale told in less…
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Olympia, Washington bluegrass duo The Lowest Pair will release their sophomore album, The Sacred Heart Sessions, on 24 February 2015. The Sacred Heart Sessions — the band’s follow up to this year’s debut, 36¢ — was recorded in an aging…
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