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If you don’t know Cool Runnings, get on that shit now homie. The Knoxville-based band is one of my favorite listens lately, as I eagerly await the Kickstarter-born vinyl release of the full length Dracula Is Only The Beginning. We’ve got a little post on it here to catch...
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Canada’s Happy Trendy caught me off guard with this new EP Die Young. The brainchild behind HT, a kid named Dylan, has another project Kumon Plaza. QRO has written up both projects, dug both projects, but it seemed like Kumon Plaza — a 64-bit electro slow jam cult —...
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Hype up-tempo southern-fried disco is served up all-you-can-eat style by Orlando’s TELETHON. Their new EP Ow Nix Golly is scary, compact fun. Part haunted house meandering, part post-apocalyptic electro: all fun, all the time. I’d love to see these guys live — I can picture raucous shows. GVSY meets...
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A quick post on Chicago’s Está Vivo, the brainchild of Ryan McMahon, which has material coming out on MJ MJ Records. Keep an eye out for laidback, strummy, stone cold indie grooves on the Está Vivo/Gracie split, due some time in December. Hit em up at Facebook & Bandcamp...
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LA-based artist David Shane Smith shows a light touch on his 3-song EP Shampoo. Deft, whimsical, electro rock meditations. Music for mowing your lawn to in the 22nd Century. Title track "Shampoo" plays it pretty straight. But "Actor" opens up a big can of art-rock whoopass, located somewhere between...
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I ran across Farewell Republic after doing a mmmmp3s post on Fantasmas. Someone from FR produced Fantasmas, and you can hear the heavy raucous crossover between the two ensembles. I dig it. Nothing’s better than stumbling upon not just one, but two, kickass bands in the same neck of...
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Toronto-based 5-piece 1977 serves up surfy, synthy diamond-cut pop ballads. They’ve released an EP called So Is The Sea as a prelude to a full length LP due in 2012. So enjoy a little appetizer before the main course. Most of these tracks are upbeat-ish, but I’m leading off...
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Straight outta Florida, the one-man band Owsley Brothers stirs up the sweatlodge blues, gator rhythms, psychedelic suntan lotion. The new EP Pure Lust has some nice Creedence vibes, 13th Floor Elevators buzz, revved up with contemporary White Stripes pop minimalism. You miss some of the impromptu flavor that comes...
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After the break-up of QRO’s beloved Pela (QRO spotlight on), guitarist Nate Martinez (QRO interview while in Pela) went his own way as the alt-country Thieving Irons with the classy This Midnight Hum (QRO review), which at its best could match even the gold standard for alt-country, Wilco (QRO...
If you don’t know Cool Runnings, get on that shit now homie. The Knoxville-based band is one of my favorite listens lately, as I eagerly await the Kickstarter-born vinyl release of the full length Dracula Is Only The Beginning. We’ve got a little post on it here to catch...
Canada’s Happy Trendy caught me off guard with this new EP Die Young. The brainchild behind HT, a kid named Dylan, has another project Kumon Plaza. QRO has written up both projects, dug both projects, but it seemed like Kumon Plaza — a 64-bit electro slow jam cult —...
Hype up-tempo southern-fried disco is served up all-you-can-eat style by Orlando’s TELETHON. Their new EP Ow Nix Golly is scary, compact fun. Part haunted house meandering, part post-apocalyptic electro: all fun, all the time. I’d love to see these guys live — I can picture raucous shows. GVSY meets...
A quick post on Chicago’s Está Vivo, the brainchild of Ryan McMahon, which has material coming out on MJ MJ Records. Keep an eye out for laidback, strummy, stone cold indie grooves on the Está Vivo/Gracie split, due some time in December. Hit em up at Facebook & Bandcamp...
LA-based artist David Shane Smith shows a light touch on his 3-song EP Shampoo. Deft, whimsical, electro rock meditations. Music for mowing your lawn to in the 22nd Century. Title track "Shampoo" plays it pretty straight. But "Actor" opens up a big can of art-rock whoopass, located somewhere between...
I ran across Farewell Republic after doing a mmmmp3s post on Fantasmas. Someone from FR produced Fantasmas, and you can hear the heavy raucous crossover between the two ensembles. I dig it. Nothing’s better than stumbling upon not just one, but two, kickass bands in the same neck of...
Toronto-based 5-piece 1977 serves up surfy, synthy diamond-cut pop ballads. They’ve released an EP called So Is The Sea as a prelude to a full length LP due in 2012. So enjoy a little appetizer before the main course. Most of these tracks are upbeat-ish, but I’m leading off...
Straight outta Florida, the one-man band Owsley Brothers stirs up the sweatlodge blues, gator rhythms, psychedelic suntan lotion. The new EP Pure Lust has some nice Creedence vibes, 13th Floor Elevators buzz, revved up with contemporary White Stripes pop minimalism. You miss some of the impromptu flavor that comes...
After the break-up of QRO’s beloved Pela (QRO spotlight on), guitarist Nate Martinez (QRO interview while in Pela) went his own way as the alt-country Thieving Irons with the classy This Midnight Hum (QRO review), which at its best could match even the gold standard for alt-country, Wilco (QRO...