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Woods : Sun City Creeps
In a city as congested as Brooklyn, NY the vastness of Woods' sound comes as somewhat of a surprise at times. Since the release of last years With Light and With Love the group has been anything but restricted to frontman Jeremy Earl's home studio; ripping through a slew of international gigs as well as quietly piecing together the forthcoming follow-up, City Sun Eater in the River of Light...
Read MoreGUM: Glamorous Damage
Jay Watson is one distinguished dude. Allocating efforts between Tame Impala and POND, he has garnered the privilege of working with innovators of the time because he is one himself. For these other more established projects, expectations based on previous work can sometimes hinder the impressions of new material, but Glamorous Damage operates outside that realm...
Read More[Event Recap] Beach Goth 4
In times as peculiar as those spent those spent at Beach Goth, a fleeting sense of predictability should come as no surprise. Fueled by an eclectic mash of sandy-toed beach rockers, funk phenoms, hip-hop icons, and Pauly Shore... the latest installment served as the most sizable and chaotic to date...
Read More[PLAYLIST] Beach Goth 4
It's Friday, the coffee is brewing, and word has surfaced that WW will be in the building for Beach Goth 4. A good morning it is indeed...
Read MoreCrepes: Size Of Your Town
Blowing in from Melbourne (as many of my current favorites are) while also cozying up with Deaf Ambitions, Crepes lay down tunes as soft and breezy as they come. Their latest effort has the boys taking a seat in front of the old black-and-whites for the steadily strolling piano ballad titled, "Size Of Your Town"...
Read MoreThe Big Moon: The Road
Each tune from The Big Moon seems to be lifting their followers further from earth and closer to that ball of cheese in the sky. Their brief but sterling catalogue has a swaggering indifference to it that adds a dark shine to their melancholy guitar-pop...
Read MoreMarco Vella: Awake From The Noise
Marco Vella’s “Awake From The Noise” has a lingering pertinence this morning as the song sweetly grumbles, “waking up is getting harder…” My honey latte percolates at today’s office (Venice’s Flowerboy Project) while gently strummed guitars match my beverage with a warmth and optimism for what is to come...
Read More[EVENT RECAP] Capitol Hill Block Party
Exploring new places is always a welcomed endeavor, so when these adventures string us through a hotbed of music, food and drink it's easy to feel spoiled. After a morning jog along the water and a brief walk down Broadway Street I found myself in the thick Seattle's Capitol Hill Block Party...
Read More[PLAYLIST] Capitol Hill Block Party 2015
The time for Seattle's Capitol Hill Block Party is finally upon us and we couldn't be more ready. Well, 'ready' may be an overstatement considering we are still packing our bags but as always we had to get our tunes in order first...
Read MoreDay Wave: Headcase EP
While we often look to the Summer months as a time to hang up our worries along with our rain boots Day Wave, aka Jackson Phillips, has taken the time for some inward reflection. With the ocean as his mirror the Oakland-based singer-songwriter has churned out the pensive and aptly title Headcase EP...
Read More[Event] Capitol Hill Block Party
While the list of copy-cat festival lineups continues to gain weight with each passing season Capitol Hill Block Party managed to separate itself from the pack early on. Taking place at Seattle's Capitol Hill between Broadway and 12th Avenue & E. Pine Street and E. Union Street the six blocks will come together in a grid of good times and even better tunes...
Read MoreThe Vliets EP
Welcome back to the Not So New News. This time around we're focusing on The Vliets self-titled 2011 debut. Originally dubbed as an homage to Captain Beefheart's, Don Van Vliet the stoney art-rock jammers have since renamed the group to Dubious Rothschild with an LP due out this year...
Read MoreUnknown Mortal Orchestra: Can't Keep Checkin' My Phone
Unknown Mortal Orchestra have always pioneered a unique sound that is untraceable but at the same time inspired by everything good that has come before...
Read MoreSXSW Official Showcase
This year we're delighted to announce that we'll be presenting our first official SXSW showcase. The show will be held in Bethell Hall, part of St David's Episcopal Church - a historic Church in downtown Austin. We're presenting two artists who we've been championing from their very beginnings - Howard and Kevin Garrett, alongside Oso Leone, Avid Dancer and Emmy The Great...
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