From the monthly archives:

April 2010

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

New Deer Tick: The Black Dirt Sessions; 20 Miles [mp3]

04.09.2010

Deer Tick offers up the first mp3 from their upcoming June release on Partisan, The Black Dirt Sessions. This song conjures the experience of walking alone down an ungroomed dirt road under midwestern beating sun and clear skies – just you and some mosquitoes – while wearing a hundred pound backpack and tattered shoes, only [...]

Luxury Wafers Exclusive: Adam Green, Live@Kingsize Soundlabs with Videos and Mp3s

04.08.2010

Adam Green, son of a neurologist, brother of an astrophysicist, and former Moldy Peach with Kimya Dawson (their Anyone Else But You was featured in Juno), is wide open, funny in a dry way, super comfy and very friendly. He’s happy to sit and chat for a bit about two young female musicians he followed [...]

Rad Chicks and Bad Dudes: Kill Rock Stars SaMpLeR!!, Mexicans With Guns, Amanda Fucking Palmer, We Are Wolves, Regrettes and Brunettes

04.07.2010

First things first, go and download the KillRockStars Best Sampler Ever. 21 songs from some of your already faves and perhaps some new ones, too. Go. Do it. HERE. Next, Amanda Fucking Palmer is up to something dramatic. What’s new. Dresden Doll and current punk cabaret queen, AFP is newly free from label, Roadrunner Records, [...]

Family of the Year: Chugjug [mp3], Chrissy [mp3] plus new tour and EP

04.06.2010

Funny thing. On yesterday’s rainy cool LA morning, I stumbled across a golden new Family of the Year track: Chugjug [mp3] from their new 5-song EP Through the Trees (Hero, Chugjug, The Barn, Stairs, and The Princess and The Pea) which even sports a reggae-flavored piece with contribution from friend and LW veteran Willy Mason. [...]

Luxury Wafers Exclusive: The Living Sisters, Live @ Bright Street with Videos and Mp3s

04.02.2010

Luscious layers of vocal harmony spiced with doe-eyed friskiness mark the timeless songs of The Living Sisters, the exceptional trio of already individually accomplished LA singer-songwriters: Inara George (The Bird and The Bee), Eleni Mandell and Becky Stark (Lavender Diamond). Substantive yet refreshing, soulful yet light-hearted, The Living Sisters’ songs lure irresistibly. Because they’re sung [...]

Cursive: Discovering America and Playing House of Blues in LA Friday

04.01.2010

Cursive plays LA Friday, April 2nd (that’s tomorrow) at House of Blues with Alkaline Trio.  Their recent album, Mama, I’m Swollen, came out 3/10/09 on Saddle Creek. Cursive‘s newly released single, Discovering America, benefits the American Indian College Fund. Listen below: Discovering America [mp3] We loved having the guys in for a live Luxury Wafers [...]