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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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

Mika Miko disbands – last tour date Austin’s Fun Fun Fun Fest. Revisit their Radness with exclusive video and live mp3s

10.18.2009

Bummer to hear the news that our favorite pony funk band, Mika Miko, is breaking up. Sounds like it’s for real, too. Mika Miko’s always had the magic to make boys and girls, men and women, go gaga. It’s in their inimitable personal distinctiveness and the unassuming clobber-whip of punk rock that comes along with [...]

Luxury Wafers Exclusive: The Builders and The Butchers, Live@Chessvolt Studios with Video and Mp3s

10.15.2009

Wild eyed and possessing the qualities of a preacher at a tent revival or one who’s seen the fang-toothed sasquatch monster in the woods, The Builders and The Butchers‘ Ryan Sollee sings to testify. Uncharacteristic of the band’s lurid musical tales, the 5 young men from Portland by way of Alaska appear mellow and norm-observant. [...]

Luxury Wafers Exclusive: Citay, Live@Chessvolt Studios with Video and mp3s

10.12.2009

A motley nine members for San Fransisco’s Citay descended on the studio one day when the band (touring with The Dry Spells) came in for a Luxury Wafers Session, bringing a family vibration and big, layered sounds – diverse, like its members, yet generally breaking down into luscious psychedelic, folk-electric jams. Citay is the lovechild [...]

Luxury Wafers Exclusive: The Dry Spells, live @ Chessvolt Studios with video and mp3s

10.11.2009

The Dry Spells are Tahlia Harbour on guitar and vocals, Warren Huegel on drums, Adria Otte on guitar, April Hayley on violin, tambourine and vocals and Diego Gonzalez on bass. California storm-lined folk-rockers, The Dry Spells (all members, or former members, of Citay) originated as an empowered, all-female gig. Though they let some boys in, [...]

Luxury Wafers Exclusive: The Phenomenal Handclap Band, Live@Chessvolt Studios with Video and mp3

10.06.2009

What happens when you get 8 insanely creative, diversely groovy musical artists coordinated and rocking together as a touring, performing band unit? We got to experience such a sensational event recently when NYC’s one-of-a-kind The Phenomenal Handclap Band arrived for a live Luxury Wafers Session. Their band name sums up their vibe, which in sound [...]

Luxury Wafers Exclusive: Ha Ha Tonka live @ Chessvolt Studios with Videos and Mp3s

10.05.2009

While their signature drink may be sweet enough to spike your blood sugar levels to the point of diabetic coma (orange juice and all kinds of sweet whiskeys and liqueurs), Ha Ha Tonka’s tunes and demeanor are not that. Adventurous and geographically diverse as the Missouri state park for which the band was named, Ha [...]

Luxury Wafers Exclusive: Ben Kweller, Live@Chessvolt Studios with video and mp3s

09.27.2009

Uncanny magnetism marks Ben Kweller, a man of the people and potent old soul who’s been around a while in a young man’s body. All you have to do is mention his name and people light up, falling prone to effusiveness. Ben Kweller?! Everybody who’s been touched by the young legend has a personal Ben [...]

Luxury Wafers Exclusive: Jets Overhead, Live@Chessvolt Studios with Video and Mp3s

09.22.2009

Jets Overhead’s Luxury Wafers session went over like a velvety spa treatment involving the pouring of heated oil across the body’s surface – warm and enjoyable. We learned from Adam and Antonia, whose voices mingle and intertwine loosely with the band’s luscious, mellow pop arrangements causing goosebumps, that they celebrated their recent marriage in the [...]

Luxury Wafers Exclusive: As Tall As Lions, Live @ Chessvolt Studios with Videos and Mp3s

09.17.2009

As Tall As Lions was such a fun session. Transcendent, really. As soon as the guys opened their roadcases and liberated their instruments, extraordinary, joyful chaos took hold. I hadn’t quite expected their wonderful level of soulful exuberance – Daniel Nigro and the band (minus their drummer) were aflame with inspiration – at 10:30 in [...]

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

09.15.2009

Led by Peter Walker on guitar and vocals, Eulogies is a full-band effort fueled also by Drew Phillips on guitar, Garrett Deloian on bass and Chris Reynolds on drums and vocals. Eulogies’ tunes shoot straight-forward in structure, appealing as simple overall. Yet there’s a hidden complexity accompanied by Walker’s intellectually kicked-around lyrics which pervades Eulogies’ [...]

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

09.12.2009

Cursive sounds like Cursive. After 14 years and 8 records, distinctive and true, Tim Kasher and his Omaha band continue to alchemically pound out intellectual, intensely stormy accounts and contemplations into sublimely vitreous song-drops, the way a tempestuous ocean unfailingly beats jagged rocks into beautifully shiny, smooth stones. Kasher’s graphic lyrics penetrate, perfectly dark. Combined [...]

Luxury Wafers Exclusive: Mia Doi Todd, Live@Chessvolt Studios with Video and Mp3s

09.11.2009

Beautiful, entrancing folk songs in the truest sense roll from Mia Doi Todd – still, patient and fearless – rather akin to Joan Baez. Intimate and clear, Mia Doi Todd’s lovely songs command full attention. It’s in the combo of her perfect enunciation; her subtle variations on guitar which at times evoke natural elements, mostly [...]

Luxury Wafers Exclusive: Jason Diaz, Live@Chessvolt Studios with Video and mp3s

09.09.2009

You don’t have to hear the lyrics to Jason Diaz’s songs to understand the burning, soulful infusion of meaning shot through. Sometimes elusive, the words that do land on your plate of consciousness strike as an intriguing invitation enveloped in mystique. When you catch an entire phrase, the whole meaning in words, if you haven’t [...]

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

09.07.2009

The Moondoggies should come doctor recommended. I’ve been listening to their live session over the past few hours with a profound physiological result: truly, my blood pressure has dropped, my breathing has deepened and I feel dilated in general. The Moondoggies require me to slow down. Their music grows on me, warming from the inside [...]

Luxury Wafers Exclusive: Leopold and His Fiction, Live @Chessvolt Studios with Video and Mp3s

09.06.2009

Dishing out wicked, San Francisco style, old-schoolish rock’n’roll touched by psychedelic haze and even shades of folk, the lion-maned Daniel James on guitar and lead vocals, Micayla Grace on bass and John Sortland on drums and Farfisa are Leopold and His Fiction, a dedicated threesome determined to endear themselves to the masses, even if that’s [...]

Luxury Wafers Exclusive: French Miami, Live@Chessvolt Studios with Video and Mp3s

08.30.2009

Supercoiled intensity. San Francisco’s French Miami packed in a maelstrom to the studio for their live Luxury Wafers Session. We’d already been listening to their gems at damagingly high volume before they arrived and digging the stir of internal storms they inflamed, but we had no idea how much fun French Miami would be in [...]

Luxury Wafers Exclusive: These United States, Live@Chessvolt Studios with Video + Mp3s

08.25.2009

Fresh faced from a day’s video shoot which apparently involved a shaving scene, perhaps a bit of hair-cutting and some fingernail polish, flanked by a few down-to-earth good friends and juiced on special red liquid fuel, These United States visited Luxury Wafers on a recent round through LA. Self-dubbed “Cumulonimbus wordpop for the jangly railyard [...]

Luxury Wafers Exclusive: Black Kites, Live@Chessvolt Studios with Video and Mp3s

08.25.2009

LA’s own Silverlake scene veterans, Black Kites, visited us for a live Luxury Wafers Session. The lineup: Evelyn Reyes on keys and vocals; Alan Petherick on guitar and vocals; Nicki Nevlin on bass; Gabriel Fernandez on drums. The lovely songbird, Evelyn, has since migrated east back to Miami, so Black Kites is now but a [...]

Luxury Wafers Exclusive: Rural Alberta Advantage, Live@Chessvolt Studios (Videos and Mp3s)

08.19.2009

Nils Edenloff of The Rural Alberta Advantage poignantly portrays life from an earthy, poetic Alberta, Canada perspective through masterfully crafted, heartfelt indie-folk rock songs. With characteristic Albertan optimism, Edenloff states, “…mostly the songs just try to embrace the advantage of growing up in Alberta.” When we met Nils, he was glowing with wide-eyed openness and [...]

Luxury Wafers Exclusive Appetizer: Rural Alberta Advantage’s Nils Edenloff shares about new song, Barns’ Yard, Live on video plus live Mp3

08.17.2009

Wholesome, humble, personable and rousingly talented, Canadian Americana singer/songwriter Nils Edenloff of The Rural Alberta Advantage shares on-camera about his song, Barns’ Yard. Rural Alberta Advantage – Barns’ Yard Story – Luxury Wafers Sessions from Luxury Wafers on Vimeo. Listen to the Exclusive Live Track: Barns’ Yard [mp3] Keep tuning in for more RAA [...]

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