From the monthly archives:

March 2009

Eleni Mandell, Live@Chessvolt Studios

03.31.2009

Coming from a gal originally inspired by the burgeoning LA punk scene of the late ’70s, this collection of live Eleni Mandell recordings is a priceless trove of timeless gems. Stripped to bare elegance – just Eleni’s voice, clear and piercing with suggestive vulnerability, accompanied by guitar strums and Ryan Feves in support on easy-rolling [...]

Premature Trackulation: Israel Nash Gripka, Evening

03.28.2009

Wrapping stories in threads of song, New Yorker Israel Nash Gripka tells sonic tales on guitar and harmonica with a Counting Crows vibe, heavily influenced by CCR and John Cougar Mellencamp. Evening reminds me of Mellencamp’s Pink Houses. It takes its time unrolling a heartfelt ballad filled with ironic hopefulness and disappointment.

Track & Video Of The Day: The Parson Red Heads, Got It All

03.28.2009

Step into peace and love and a warm, fuzzy vibe with The Parson Red Heads. 100% Fresh squeezed and authentic, this musical family, pared down sizewise for their live Luxury Wafers studio recording, is the closest thing out there to a current CSNY. Got It All basks in a sated flower-child glow reminscent of Nash’s [...]

Premature Trackulation: The Mayfire, I’m Sinking

03.27.2009

A hard-edged, grungy splash from The May Fire, I’m Sinking recorded live for Luxury Wafers, offers a good crisp wallow in pleasurable pain. Its NIN-ish screen of intensity blends with drawn-out Nirvana-like riffs, providing just the right level of chaos to keep lead-singer, Kat Tasso – a testy girl version of Sid Vicious – in [...]

Chase Pagan: Gun and the Sword

03.26.2009

photo by Dawneen A new track from Chase Pagan’s upcoming album, Bells & Whistles. Pagan looks like a pretty normal guy, but the falsetto that floats from his insides is chiildlike and girly and magically captivating within his swirling, dramatically pointed concoctions. Gun and the Sword pulsates fabulously, a sort of angry-fun, counter-culture, synesthetic celebration. [...]

Dynamite Walls, Live@Chessvolt Studios

03.26.2009

Rough-and-ready Dynamite Walls hails from San Diego, but their sound on these live tracks, which most closely resembles contemporaries Kings of Leon and Cold War Kids, portrays southern flavored, alt-leaning rock’n’roll with hints of the ’80s and a heavy U2 undercurrent that could easily have been brought up in a small town where boys wear [...]

Those Darlins, Wild One

03.25.2009

No slouches in the frisk department, Those Darlins, the country-punk sweethearts from Murfreesboro, TN, are stirring up a storm of affection with their in-your-face, old-school country ballads charged with surprisingly high levels of testosterone. These 3 pretty things play hard-partying fun. They’ve been all over the place lately – touring with Dan Auerbach (Black Keys) [...]

Give Peace A Chance – 40 Year Anniversary of John Lennon and Yoko Ono’s Bed-In

03.25.2009

What a fantastically kooky couple. Can you imagine? During their honeymoon, John Lennon and Yoko Ono invited the press, the world, into their hotel room at the Amsterdam Hilton to promote World Peace via a week-long Bed-In! The hand lettered signs above their bed read “Hair Peace” and “Bed Peace”. You know the story. Click [...]

Track Of The Day: The Boxing Lesson, Lower

03.25.2009

Austin’s incandescent The Boxing Lesson dazzles with their Moogalishisly lush spacetrip Lower Get more – Read The Boxing Lesson‘s Luxury Wafers Session full review with video and mp3 downloads.

New Track from The Lava Children: The Green Word

03.24.2009

New from Tulsa’s The Lava Children, here’s a fascinating psychedelic journey in a tune, The Green Word coming out on their self-titled Mini-LP on Graveface May 26th. The Lava Children tracklisting: 1. I am a Pony 2. Particles 3. Firefly 4. Troll 5. The Green Word A couple of these tracks are on their Myspace. [...]

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