The latest installment of INCHES is now live on West Coast Sound (via LA Weekly). Click here to read about new vinyl from Long Beach folk-pop crew Avi Buffalo, New Wave revisionists Psychic Powers, scuzz-surf garage “group” Nerve City, and Stones Throw beat etherealist Koushik. Free MP3s and glorious photos accompany each, of course. Dig in!
Avi Buffalo, "What's In It For?"
Last week I broke the news (via West Coast Sound) that Long Beach band-of-teens Avi Buffalo had signed to Sub Pop. This week, the LA Weekly has published my feature on the band, which goes a bit more in-depth on the group’s extremely talented leader, Avi Zahner-Isenberg. Read “Young, Gifted and Slack” here, and watch Zahner-Isenberg perform “Jessica” below.
INCHES012 is here! Find out what it’s all about for yourself. You won’t be sorry.
No Age's "Losing Feeling"
Quick bloggy bits from around the L.A. underground (and up):
(via West Coast Sound, via LA Weekly)
*If you like it, then you better put a tweet on it.
Quick bloggy bits from the L.A. underground (and up):
(via West Coast Sound, LA Weekly)
Blitzen Trapper, Black River Killer (via The A.V. Club)
Grade: C+
[Click here to read an interview with Blitzen Trapper’s Eric Earley — via Decider.]
On it’s recent Sub Pop debut, Furr, Portland band Blitzen Trapper tows a wonderfully weird line between Pavement, Beck, Bob Dylan and Led Zeppelin. In this interview, singer/songwriter Eric Earley talks plainly about ripping off Dylan, tweaking the format by adding a little Neil Young, and his more literary lyrical influences (i.e. Cormac McCarthy).
Also, the video for “Furr.”
Seattle-based Sub Pop soloist Tiny Vipers, a.k.a. Jesy Fortino, specializes in a particularly dooming brand of barebones folk. Her new record, Life On Earth, is the kind of thing that rattles around your head for weeks on end — welcomely, I might add. Visit A.V. Club Denver to learn just how Fortino creates her haunting compositions, and what she thinks about huge magical castles.
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