The Neighbourhood, in case you haven't gotten the memo, are one of the hottest tickets in music; the heir(s) apparent to the indie-rock throne. Their singles have floated around the net like a celebrity's hacked cell-phone pictures: everyone was talking about them, no one was sure where they came from, and their quality indicated that they were;t the product of some amateur operation. The Neighbourhood's sound is, well... New. Not "new" in a redundant way, though. "New" in a way that makes sense; rich in its...
KO KO's music is built for summer. The southern California dream-pop duo, consisting of brothers Ryan and Taylor Lawhon, have "never known winter;" their debut EP, Float, is every bit as pleasant and consistent as the 75 degree weather that the Lawhon boys are accustomed to. The single and title track "Float" has generated a fair amount of buzz since it's release earlier this year and has garnered interest from the likes of RCA, Capitol Records, and UK-based Parlophone. You can grab "Float" below, as well as a link...
John Eriksson, drummer and one part of the beloved indie-whistling trio Peter Bjorn and John (he's John), has been keeping busy. June 4 will mark the debut release from Eriksson's new project and alter ego: Hortlax Cobra. Hortlax Cobra's music was spawned on the keys of a child's Casio keyboard,...
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Full transparency: this song came out two months ago, and it's not free on our site. Typically, if one of those two facts were true about a post on our site you'd probably say "fuck this." But, you know what? We know that. And still decided that this track was worth sharing with...
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Los Angeles indie-rockers The Neighbourhood have finally emerged from the shadows with the release of their first EP, I'm Sorry..., coupled with the release of a third single, "Wires." Wires is consistent with the group's overall feel. Lead singer Jesse James Rutherford's hip-hop background...
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LA's genre-bending funkmaster Harlan is back with another video, this time utilizing a medium which has fallen into neglect with the advent of/increasing viability of "CGI" animation (computers, you guys). The video is claymation, and it was directed and animated by Jessica Jule, about whom we...
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I hate to sound hyperbolic here, but everything about The M Machine is epic. I'm not going to spend a ton of time re-phrasing what's been written about them, so I'll give you a bulleted list of a few reasons why it's time to start getting excited: They're signed to Skrillex's relatively new...
Field Report, otherwise known as songwriter Chris Porterfield of Eau Claire, Wisconsin, has released another track, "Taking Alcatraz." This is presumably a cut off of Field Report's debut album, the title of which remains unknown, due out sometime this summer. Porterfield was formally of...
