Saturday, September 29, 2012

Thursday, September 27, 2012

Com Truise: Cathode Girls

Com Truise is one of the many personas of producer and designer Seth Haley, born and raised in upstate New York and operating out of a 12' box in Princeton, New Jersey. An admitted synthesizer obsessive, Com Truise is the maker of an experimental and bottom heavy style he calls “mid-fi synth-wave, slow-motion funk”.

Treasureseason: Border Crossing

Treasureseason, currently comprised of duo David Powell and Jess Bartlet, began in San Francisco’s Sunset District, where Powell met and recorded the project’s debut self-titled EP with Swedish musician Ida Olsson in 2012. Structured as something sort of chillwave but built into saturated soundscapes, their music stood out with a combination of lo-fi resampling and the palpable influence of catchy 1980's film soundtracks. 

Wednesday, September 19, 2012

Honeybear: Bottom Over Top

Alter ego of Canadian, Aaron Meyer, Honeybear is a conglomerate consisting of his progression from traditional folk music to incorporating more ambient and pop influences into that. Bottom Over Top opens with a combination of (figuratively) fire crackling and water dripping as one combined sound, and that idea of naturalized harmony is carried throughout as he lonesomely croons about treacherous women and feelings of oppression but always finding balance between light and dark.

Tuesday, September 18, 2012

Jefferson Airplane: White Rabbit

Jefferson Airplanes was a psychedelic rock group formed in San Francisco, California. Jefferson Airplanes was the first of several Bay-area psychedelic rock bands to receive renown, due to the release of their album Surrealistic Pillow as the "Summer of Love" zeitgeist and psychedelic eras were blooming. 

Monday, September 17, 2012

The Lumineers: Ho Hey

This band is a mix between Irish Pub music and college alternative, and it's pretty great. They'll have your foot tapping and singing "Ho Hey" all day!

Ray Lamontagne (cover of Gnarls Barkley): Crazy

Ray Lamontagne spins his own artistic rendering of Gnarls' song, Crazy, taking it an entirely different, smoother direction than that of Gnarls.

The Who: I Can See For Miles

I can't even being to write about The Who, and can only suffice to say that they are perhaps the best live band to ever perform because of their energy and passion. 

Wednesday, September 12, 2012

Alkaline Trio: Radio

This song...should automatically play through the speakers of life anytime that you have a fallout with someone.

Tuesday, September 11, 2012

Purity Ring: Fineshrine

Not everything that comes from Canada is bad. Purity Ring more than makes up for Justin Beiber. 

Wednesday, September 5, 2012

Hello Saferide: Get Sick Soon

As adorable as this song is, it's really creepy. It makes me feel like I'd get locked out of the house in the cold on purpose, just for the sake of becoming sick so I could be cared for, which is COMPLETELY the opposite of what I want. That aside, Swedish Annika Norlin is spectacular, both here and in her other project, Säkert! (completely in Swedish, and slightly more pop-ier).

Tuesday, September 4, 2012

Dam Mantle: Rebong

Jutting from a sea of a genre growing exponentially with each passing week, Tom Marshallsay’s music stands as a beacon of technicolor sound with a rich seam of raw musicality running through it. Marshallsay’s previous exploits are rooted in post-rock and experimental folk; the echoes of these dying beasts in Marshallsay's life have given a blood transfusion to Dam Mantle, an entirely electronic project he dove into as 2009 came to an end. His pieces are infused with a love of music far broader than the just the niche he now inhabits.

Tommy Tutone: Jenny (867-5309)

Classic 1980's one hit wonder.

Monday, September 3, 2012

She & Him: Take it Back

Take it back, I don't want your lovin' anymore. Summers, hot nights, dark country, She & Him