From the monthly archives:

April 2009

Go West Young Man, Chinatown

04.29.2009

From their live session at Chessvolt Studios, Go West Young Man‘s Chinatown Check out their self-titled record (OneCell, 2009). Read the full review and download more tracks plus video at Go West Young Man’s Live Luxury Wafers Session.

Nite Jewel, Weak For Me

04.29.2009

Trance. Did I say that or was I only thinking? Mmmm, cheetos. So thirsty. Why do you sound like you’re talking from the bottom of a can? Ahh, Nite Jewel. Whoa. Weak For Me. I think I’ll just go lie down for a few minutes….

The Pains of Being Pure At Heart: Young Adult Friction, Come Saturday, Everything With You

04.28.2009

The Pains of Being Pure at Heart fashion a dreamy popscape, right on the money for the genre, wielding the contemporary iconic largesse equivalent to Pretty in Pink of its day. Listen to Young Adult Friction, which cops a wheedling refrain, “Don’t check me out.” Also from their new, self-titled album, The Pains of Being [...]

Mika Miko, We Be XUXA, Download: I Got A Lot & On The Rise

04.28.2009

For real? Yes, they will eat you up. Victor Fandgore (Jennifer Clavin), Jet Blanca (Jenna Thornhill), Michelle Diane Suarez, Jessica Clavin and now a boy, Seth Densham, make up LA-based punks Mika Miko (PostPresentMedium/KillRockStars). We’re stoked to have Mika Miko in the studio for a Luxury Wafers Live Session the day before the release of [...]

Chase Pagan Downloads – Life Garden, Gun and the Sword

04.28.2009

Chase Pagan spews rough wisdom and inspired experience through crisply produced folk-pop, chock-full of intriguing substance, delivered via a young, potentially twisted girlie-boy voice. Life Garden Gun and the Sword The new record: Bells & Whistles (Esperanza Plantation, June 9th 2009).

Ana Egge, Bully of New York and Farmer’s Daughter – Exclusive Downloads

04.28.2009

Two tracks, recorded Live@Chessvolt Studios for Luxury Wafers, from Ana Egge’s recent release, Road To My Love (Grace/Parkinsong,2009): Farmer’s Daughter Bully of New York Ana Egge, exceedingly modest and of a gentle nature, commands her surroundings when she lets loose on the guitar she built at age 15. Her strong confidence and skill are notable [...]

Austin Hartley-Leonard, Angelyne & Golden Opportunity, exclusive downloads

04.28.2009

Sal, Matt and Austin Hartley-Leonard in the StudioFrom Austin Hartley-Leonard’s full band live session at Chessvolt Studios for Luxury Wafers, two exclusive new folk tracks: What can I say? I’m a sucker for a well-done acoustic love song: Angelyne Banjo, bass, keys, and drums plus Austin’s guitar and vocals round out a Cat Stevens style [...]

The Duhks, Mighty Storm and Everybody Knows

04.28.2009

Canadian grown The Duhks (sounds like the animals that go “quack”) combine hillbilly-soul with environmental sustainability like no other band out there. Touring a festival circuit on biodiesel, The Duhks just played Stagecoach in Indio. We’re happy to have them for a live session in the studio this week before they continue on their quest [...]

The Felice Brothers, Yonder Is The Clock + 2 mp3 downloads

04.25.2009

Listen to the tracks (option/click to download): Run Chicken Run Penn Station The Felice Brothers- Yonder Is The Clock (Team Love) Release: April 7th 2009 By Benham Jones Over the last three or four years, contemporary Americana has reemerged in a big way, two-steppin’ towards the mainstream with an edginess that hasn’t been tapped into [...]

Rademacher, Live@Chessvolt Studios

04.25.2009

Malcolm Sosa will be the last man called sissy. He might have been the kid you’d find outside playing trucks in the dirt, fingering a football rather than a dictionary, figuring things out by dismantling and examining them, or imagining, hands-on, with action figures. Sosa conducts serious, sweaty boy energy like silver conducts amperes, readily [...]

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