A Quick Word from the Author: It's been raining pretty consistently the past week, ruining my plans to do everything and accelerating my agenda for doing nothing. Rain depresses me, at least in the winter time when everything's already fairly gloomy, but there's always music out there to take your mind off of things. Thusly, this week of the Sabbath is a bit more uppity than usual, and non coincidentally my favorite mix since Week 26. In other news, I've moved in to my new abode and it just so happens that we do...
Brooklyn’s Beach Fossils came onto the scene with their guns cocked for their debut 2010 self-titled LP, adding new elements to the common surf-rock sound that was all too common for the time. The band then went on to put out 2011’s What A Pleasure EP, which amplified some of the ideas explored on the first album with the addition of bass-propelled tracks by John Peńa of Heavenly Beat. At the time Beach Fossils were making quite a name of themselves with an energetic live show where they were playing at faster...
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Like most of us, Beach House have been busy reflecting on the year we just put behind us. Like some of us, they've got a whole lot to be proud of. To celebrate an unequivocally successful 2012, the duo assembled a few video clips from their recording session at Sonic Ranch Studios in Tornillo,...
The darker season may tend to draw our eyes to more natural sights -- evergreens, snow, the moon -- but there's no rule against waxing poetic about the artificial ornaments on our wintry landscapes. On single "Halogen Moon," Melbourne-based songwriter James Wallace (who sings under the seasonally...
Christmas bells are a powerful weapon. They can be wielded to inspire mid-season gift-slacking guilt, to grate at the ears of weary mall shoppers, or to strike dread into young adults who just realized they're going to have to hang out with their parents for the better part of a week. They can also...
Gliss is starting to get noticed again. While the band's next record Langsom Dans hasn't yet seen the light of day, its lead single has already crept onto the new ABC series 666 Park Avenue. And for good reason--the Copenhagen/Los Angeles trio have cultivated an iridescent brand of hook-friendly...
If you haven't heard of the group Odesza, it's time you should have. Odesza is the fusion of two producers: Catacombkid and BeachesBeaches. Each respectively have a sound that aims towards a feel-good electronic dreampop style, which is exactly what Odesza is all about. Luckily for them, their...
Talk about taking me back in the day. Fresh off touring with XXYYXX in Europe, San Francisco producer Giraffage's remix of The Dream's "Shawty is Da Shit" (or "Shawty is a 10" for you censored folk) is a great tune to take me back to 2007 and get my morning started. The intro starts off similar to...
