Rec Center
Veteran Tampa Bay Area indie-scene singer-songwriters Susie Ulrey(Pohgoh, The Maccabees (U.S.)) and Michael Waksman (The Washdown, Zillionaire) have turned a longtime casual collaboration into a gorgeous collection of compelling, thoughtful and artfully composed tunes that balance wistful maturity with a certain earnest and eternally young expression. Not quite pop, not quite anything else, these songs feature an amazingly comfortable [...]
Violens
I found myself turning back to Violens’ latest album over and over again ever since I got it earlier this week. Slumberland Records has done it again with this 80′s shoegaze inspired band. Violens – True sampler by Slumberland Records
California Wives
California Wives recently signed with Vagrant Records. The four piece from Chicago has a sound that mixes nostalgic 80′s reverb-charged vocals and dark new-wave synth lines that would make for a perfect back-drop to any John Hughes storyline. CaliforniaWives are currently in the midst of wrapping up their debut full-length album (release date and title still to-be-announced). California [...]
Cheers Elephant
Dubbed, “Chew It Up, Spit It Out, Rock And Roll,” Cheers Elephant is a raw, rootsy, psychedelic pop rock quartet from Philadelphia, PA. Digging deep into three-part harmonies and arranging songs that’ll make your dad’s toe tap, your mom’s hip shake, and your sister’s heart throb. A style reminiscent of The Kinks combined with a sensibility [...]
Laura Welsh
Laura Welsh has released a new video for her song Call To Arms. Be sure to check out the video. It’s really good. Then when you’re done, you can head download the song from the Soundcloud link below. Call to Arms by laurawelsh
Alvin Risk
I could never say that I’m a fan of dubstep, but it’s impossible for me to ignore truly talented artists no matter what genre they’re in. Alvin Risk is one of those guys. I listen to his style of dubstep and it makes me re-evaluate my opinion of the genre. But what gets me really excited [...]
Warships
The Warships is a five piece band hailing from LA. Their Americana rock sound reminds me a lot of Band of Horses. When you listen to their songs you can tell that even with their debut album they quickly got the attention of some talented help, like Local Natives producer Raymond Richards and engineer Darrell Thorp [...]
Midnight City Edit
The Knocks reworked Midnight City. This time they took Mandy Lee’s vocals of the song and mixed it with Eric Prydz’s killer remix. This is a really good version of the song. I think it definitely competes with the original version from M83. Midnight City Edit (Eric Prydz vs. Mandy Lee vs. The Knocks) by [...]
Johnny Bertram & The Golden Bicycles
Bertram’s sophomore effort sees the Portland songwriter and his backing band, the Golden Bicycles, stepping away from the predominant acoustic/folk instrumentation of their debut record, Days That Passed, and plugging in their gear for a more rocking affair. Tracks like “Out of the Darkness” and “Mistake” show Bertram moving into moodier, more energetic material than the [...]
King Of Prussia
Nearly three years in the making, King Of Prussia’s album, Transmissions from the Grand Strand, was titled after a outlandish thought that consumed songwriter and singer Brandon Hanick while entrenched in the recording process at Sea Note Recording in Myrtle Beach, S.C. (the principal city of the Southern Atlantic coastal region known as “The Grand Strand”). [...]
