From the monthly archives:

October 2009

Juicy Junk Culture: West Coast EP and mp3

10.30.2009

Our neighbors have been filling us with ionized water and enthusiasm, which is promoting a general high around our house and stirring up late-night sprees on dark chocolate desserts and Junk Culture. West Coast [mp3] – Junk Culture Fuzzy and crackly, Junk Culture’s Deepak Mantena lays down a funky beat adorned with gold brocade samples [...]

Wild Beasts freak me out: Two Dancers, Booty Calls and All The King’s Men

10.30.2009

All The King’s Men [mp3] – Wild Beasts From the “Auld Grey Town,” Kendal, England (known for mint cakes, snuff and limestone grey buildings) indie-pop, 4-piece boy band, Wild Beasts recently released a dramatic, sometimes Wham!-reminiscent, 10 song album, Two Dancers (9/8/2009, Domino), filled with freak-haunt falsetto and repetitive dance rhythms that aim to entice [...]

Luxury Wafers Exclusive: Throw Me The Statue, Live @ Chessvolt Studios with Video and Mp3s

10.28.2009

I like Throw Me The Statue. A lot. My original take on their tunes was ahh – easy, gentle. A little blurry. Palatably opioid. After our session with TMTS, I revisited the band’s available info and found the clencher: an ingenious Huey Lewis cover of If This Is It. Huey Lewis. Really?! You can hear [...]

Luxury Wafers Exclusive: Dawes, Live@Chessvolt Studios

10.26.2009

Well nurtured acorns, Taylor and Griffin Goldsmith, fell from a family musical tree to fertile soil in Malibu, where they grew and played and rapidly sprouted strong legs and chops and friendships that would someday carry them all across this grand country and beyond. While all four Dawes members grew up on a diet of [...]

A little bit of trance for late saturday night: West Indian Girl, Tape Deck Mountain, Bexar Bexar, Dengue Fever, Field Music

10.25.2009

If you’re still up, check ‘em out. Otherwise, fear not. These songs are gentle enough for morning after Saturday night and probably go along just fine with your cuppa joe, greasy fare and twin advils. Beach [mp3] – West Indian Girl Super groovy churning vibe. Great late night. From their We Believe (7/09, Origami). kt [...]

Wait. Think. Fast. : Video Demo of ‘Trouble’ from their upcoming so-Super-New-It’s-Not-Even-Recorded-Yet album

10.24.2009

Cien Fuegos [mp3] – Wait. Think. Fast. From Echo Park, LA, Wait. Think. Fast. is Matthew Beighley, Jacqueline Santillan Beighley, Apolinar Quintero and Thomas King. Led vocally by saucy Argentinian, Jacqueline, the group concocts a surly, woozy and enchanting world of languid yearning dotted by occasional epiphany. The name’s so catchy, WTF, they’ve always reminded [...]

Luxury Wafers Exclusive Interview with Ryan Lenssen of The Most Serene Republic

10.23.2009

Heady and ensconsed in a thickly artistic and principally operated, philosophical world, Ryan Lenssen comes to the table relaxed and ‘as is’. We’re off the record, and dialogue is a comfortable free-flow between us. We agree we both like interviews this way. Of a special crop, Lennsman is outspoken – a veritable nonstop train of [...]

Luxury Wafers Exclusive: The Donkeys, Live@Chessvolt Studios

10.23.2009

A group of us were in conversation at the studio recently, talking about various music and bands. The usual. I don’t even remember who or what the topics were exactly. I do remember, though, that my nine-year-old, who was quietly absorbing the talk nearby, piped up when she heard mention of the Grateful Dead. This [...]

Old Canes: Feral Harmonic – Little Bird Courage (mp3), Trust (mp3)

10.21.2009

Little Bird Courage [mp3] An energetic, percussive anthem loaded with horns reminiscent of Old Mexico. Uplifting, happy and fearless. Trust [mp3] A poignant song of warning to a young one that emerges from love and protection tinged sad by hints at experiences of ugly betrayals in the world. Rather than heavy, the vibe remains almost [...]

Luxury Wafers Exclusive: Matteah Baim, Live@Chessvolt Studios with Video and Mp3s

10.20.2009

Lusciously layered guitars induce a trancelike state in Matteah Baim’s Blind Man’s, a song evoking the infinite, playing the razor’s edge of beauty and starkness of being. Such is the character of Matteah Baim‘s darkly poetic songs. They’re serious, best taken at night by candlelight and paired with a goblet of tannin-heavy wine. Matteah Baim [...]

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