Here’s a really sweet acoustic ditty from Spencer Livingston, lead singer of the Alternates. A la AA Bondy or Jeff Tweedy. Listen and melt:

Now go listen to Livingston’s band. Just back in LA from a NW coast foray, Americana rockers, the Alternates, have a killer new EP out called Spiders and Webs. (Check out the fab cover art by Livingston’s sis, Hailey).

>>Listen:

:: The Modern Way (mp3)

:: Stream the entire 6 song EP HERE

Upcoming The Alternates LA shows:

July 5th- El Cid- Los Angeles- Los Angeles, CA
July 17th- House Of Blues (FREE)- Los Angeles, CA
July 19th – Hard Rock Cafe – Hollywood, CA
August 27th- House of Blues- Anaheim, CA

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Sonic Snacks – A Motley Mix of Recent Favorites

05.17.2011

:: Country Mice – Festival mp3 :: This one grabbed hold of me like a stickaburr from the hill country. Rustic rock brought to you from Brooklyn via the Midwest. Look forward to their debut album, Twister, in June. :: Hunx and His Punx – Lovers Lane mp3 :: Naughty but clean here, Hunx injects [...]

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Propellerhead Home Sessions: Amber Rubarth, Courtney Jones + Peter Malick

02.16.2011

This was fun. Even before the ‘Pie and Tart’ home studio was built out and put together, our good friends from Propellerhead suggested the kind of 2-day bash we can really dig: freeform recording with friends who are top singer-songwriters and players. The equation, which produced good times and two awesome new songs (listen and [...]

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Crystal Antlers: reflections, refinements, and now what?!

02.04.2011

While sorting through cyber-mountains of files during re-entry to the Luxury Wafers atmosphere, I ran across this video of one of my all-time favorite sessions: Crystal Antlers. Oh man. Awesome. Details of the session are blurry in my memory. From the calendar, I know it was late afternoon in July of 2009. I do remember [...]

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New Iron and Wine … and while we’re at it, Sufjan too

01.21.2011

Iron and Wine, the band formerly aka simply Sam Beam, has expanded to Beam and friends in their latest release, Kiss Each Other Clean (which actually doesn’t drop ’till 1/25/2011 – pre-order here). You can listen to the album in its entirety on the aesthetically groovy player below, courtesy of Iron and Wine/Team Coco. (Catch [...]

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Hello again, dear Wafer lovers!

01.12.2011

Hola! Que tal? Where to begin?! I’ve missed you, friends. It’s been so long. There was a time when I was exhausted and nauseated. Then I swelled to unbelievably enormous proportions. Then, after the passing of numerous moons, I sprung a new little Waferlet. She’s 5 months old now and, happily, she happens to dig [...]

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Luxury Wafers Exclusive: Butch Norton and Peter Malick, Live @ Chessvolt Studios with Videos and Mp3s

05.14.2010

Butch Norton and Peter Malick are longtime friends and lifelong players. When the two get together it’s always shenanigans of the best variety. Part mad scientist, part steady mountain, Butch (Eels, Lucinda Williams) enlivens anything from a standard drum kit to fancy specialized percussion instruments to appliance parts. With inexhaustible awe, Butch hears opportunity for [...]

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Luxury Wafers Exclusive: The Most Serene Republic, Live@Chessvolt Studios with Videos and Mp3s

04.30.2010

The Most Serene Republic, a 7 piece collective from Ontario, Canada, smooths rough edges with their exquisitely fluid pools of pop buoyed by piano, guitar, bass and drums, animated by Adrian and Emma’s dreamy voices and elegantly embellished with brass and banjo. Altogether, the band pours out enchanted, imaginative blurs with plenty of moving parts [...]

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Luxury Wafers Exclusive: Davila 666 live @ Kingsize Soundlabs with Video and Mp3s

04.23.2010

Puerto Rican garage-punk, party rockers, Davila 666, dropped into Kingsize Soundlabs for Luxury Wafers back in October, loaded with cavalier flair and magnetic machismo. For this super fun session, the notorious group of 6 left off their hallmark exotic dancers and theatrical props to do live studio recording with us. Even without their sensational live [...]

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Luxury Wafers Exclusive: Wye Oak, Live @ Chessvolt Studios with Videos and Mp3s

04.14.2010

What I love about the young, old-sounding souls, Wye Oak from Baltimore, is the womb they create. Between Jenn Wasner’s mesmerizing, melty voice – like warm poured liquid – plus heavily enveloping guitar and Andy Stack’s arrangements, which include crashing cymbals, pounding drums and keyboard drones, there’s a wall of insulation erected that begs escape [...]

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