Thursday, August 23, 2012
Friday, December 09, 2011
PACIFICUV
ARTIST / BAND: PACIFICUV
SONG (MP3): Funny Girl
ALBUM: WEEKENDS
FILE UNDER:
LABEL: Mazarine
INFO: pacificUV was formed in the late 1990’s in Athens, Georgia. Half the band wanted to sound like a psychedelic Jesus and Mary Chain tripping on Nyquil, while the other half wanted to play one chord for 45 minutes to determine its color. Somehow, what emerged from these disparate goals was their critically acclaimed, 4 years in the making, self-titled debut album, pacificUV that Rolling Stone called a “masterpiece”. The perfect mixture of noise and melody, the first L.P. was a sprawling ambient landscape that revealed a myriad of influences, from shoegaze to 60’s rock, to slow core to post-rock. read more from the source...
Monday, September 05, 2011
Friday, December 10, 2010
Braids
ARTIST / BAND: Braids
MP3: "Plath Heart" / "Lemonade"
ALBUM: Native Speaker
FILE UNDER: Indie, Psych Pop
LABEL:Kanine
INFO: BRAIDS’ was formed by four best friends in their last year of High School in Calgary, Alberta. Convincing one another to skip university, they stayed in the garage all year and practiced obsessively, even while their fingers froze during the cold prairie winters. Then, at only 18 years old, they took the bold step of moving across the country together to Montreal, where they began crafting their self recorded/self produced debut album Native Speaker.
Saturday, November 27, 2010
Cosmo's Academy
Cosmo's Academy is a band from the West Coast who just got done listening to the Dark Side of the Moon and eating frozen pizza. Our interests include philosophy, hiking, bean bag chairs and weed. We're really just trying to make the world a better place.
Tuesday, October 05, 2010
Bird By Snow
ARTIST / BAND: Bird By Snow
MP3s: Friends In The City / There Is A Marriage
ALBUM: Common Wealth
FILE UNDER: psych-pop, indie pop
LABEL: gnome life records
INFO: Place is important. Bird By Snow was formed in the weather, wild, and little towns of Northern California. Cold water, dark woods. Fog in the branches, sunlight through a Pelican-wing. Abundance in all directions. This is theplace that has informed the aesthetic of the whole Lo-fi, Pacific Northwest Indie Scene. Bird By Snow can be seen there too, but not limited to one view, instead at home in the limitless, expanding west. --- You’ll find genres bent as if light through a prism. Song-craft as ritual, where themes of primitivism, pagan meditations, and transcendent dronings breathe deeply. Only one constant member: words, tunes, recording and much playing by Fletcher Tucker.