Thursday, January 26, 2017

Tacocat - Lost Time (2016)


One, this band is awesome.  Two, this band has the most legit name I've ever heard combining two of my favorite things ever.  Three, the first song is a straight up dedication to X-Files front-woman Dana (Katherine) Scully.

Friday, July 1, 2016

Wolf Parade - Apologies to the Queen Mary (reissue, 2016)



I haven't listened to the b-sides on this one yet, but it doesn't matter since the original album rules so hard.  Still a staple.

For realz

Time to start posting again...

Tuesday, July 26, 2011

Toro Y Moi - Underneath the Pine (2011)



Hopscotch chill-wave. Add this dude to the list of people from South Carolina that doesn't suck.

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Monday, July 25, 2011

Reading Rainbow - Prism Eyes (2010)



Another hopscotch band that I am super fraking excited to see, and at the hive none the less. American indie-pop-rock at it's finest.

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Friday, July 22, 2011

Beach Fossils - What a Pleasure (2011)



I think I'm going to start posting more Hopscotch bands. Beach Fossils are one of the top bands I want to see this year. Perfect mix of indie rock and shoegaze.

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Thursday, July 21, 2011

$K$E$H$A$ - IATDC + ICYTD (2011)



Is it ridiculous that I can't find this girl on Spotify without actually typing $.

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Wednesday, July 20, 2011

Metronomy - The English Riviera (2011)



Hot damn I love this band! This new album is so much more refined then "Night's Out." Don't get me wrong, I love that album too as it encompasses a raw electro-indie-i-just-had-my-heart-broken-but-let's-dance-anyway kinda thing. This album takes that, and bakes it to perfection with slightly less teenage angst.

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Tuesday, July 19, 2011

DOM - Sun Bronzed Greek Gods (2011)



AND I'M BACK FROM SUMMER VAY-K!!! Ok, so I definitely still have a note on my desk from 3 weeks ago telling me to check out this DOM character, which i just got around to yesterday.... A MAN WAS I MISSING OUT! In a recent interview Dom declined to share his last name, and blurred the line between fact and fiction so nonchalantly that it became hard to know if anything he said could be believed at all. Supposedly the basis for his anonymity is seeded in the many debts he owes to a wide range of sinister individuals.

Dom makes sunburned guitar pop with fat hooks and stargaze synths that sound triumphant, heartbreaking, and totally immediate.

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Wednesday, June 22, 2011

Bon Iver - Bon Iver (2011)



I really don't have to say anything about Bon Iver. You are most likely already aware of their awesome sauce.

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Monday, June 20, 2011

Friday, June 17, 2011

Battles - Gloss Drop (2011)



New Battles. Somehow they lost a dude and got even better. I believe that's called the subtractive property of unequally-more-awesome-now. Sorry Tyondai Braxton.

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