Total Warr – I Don’t Need Your Friendship (Unouomedude Remix)
I featured Total Warr sometime back in October, which you can refer to here. Hi-Scores have just dropped this remix of I Dont Need Your Friendship by Unouomedude and it’s quite the weird one. Have a taste: Purchase directly from Hi-Scores here.
Cloud Nothings
Dylan Baldi is Cloud Nothings, the kinda guy who doesn’t wait around for his friends to form a band with him – he went on to do it himself with just a guitar and a laptop. It wasn’t long before people caught on with his brand of pop, Wichita signed him on, and he’s currently...
Girls Names / Brilliant Colors Split 7″
Anything Tough Love throws at me, I’ll post quickly. Tough Love has grown to be one of my favorite labels, always hits, no misses. If you havent caught on yet, it aint too late. These time them guys threw me a split 7″ preview between Belfast’s Girls Names and Brilliant Colors from San Fran. While...
Total Warr
Experimental indie pop kids, Total Warr from Paris has got a new release out on boutique label Hi-Scores. Entitled Cascades, the ep’s full of lazy indie-pop with lazy fuzzed out guitar leads made better with layers and layers of sometimes bouncy electronic sounds. There’s too many layers of textures for this for this to be...
Weed
Not the drug. Weed is Brooklyn-based bedroom artist, Willy “Flip” Anderson. This is so lo-fi its hurting my ears – in a good way. Cody is my favorite track of his new release, DC Hope. It’s a typical surf americana track, but awashed with a kind of rawness you don’t normally expect from a supposed...
Hocus Tocus
You can’t really surf in Brighton. The pebbled beach turns me off and the water’s too cold. But that doesnt stop these two kids from dreaming the surf city dream. Sam “Tiger Man” and Mike White are the cousins behind Hocus Tocus, the band who first got my attention from that TEETH remix. What TEETH...
Bleeding Knees Club
More chillwave /surf pop to get you to chill the fuck out. Bleeding Knees Club are two kids presumably with nowt else to do, from warm and sunny Australia and they do a simple set up of guitars and drums and that’s it. More punk than pop, Bleeding Knees Club have released a sweet demo...
Elite Gymnastix
Its kinda hard to focus when all night I’ve been distracted by demos from early 80s post punk bands. Broken Faith anyone? Sip my coffee and pay attention. Elite Gymnastix regard themselves as chillwave. Except for the distant vocals calling out from the other side of a hollow memory, the occassional sampled loops from early...
Sunbirds
I featured Sunbirds about a year ago and was really into their laidback jangly guitars and psych-surf sound. By now they’ve shared the stage with Best Coast and are back with some new material for their debut EP and an awesome new video. River Run sees the band’s sound developed fully – the guitars that...
Coasting
The moment I heard Coasting, the comparisons to Finally Punk, the Dum Dum Girls and Vivian Girls come to mind. I have friends who went to see the Dum Dum Girls at the Brudenell Social in Leeds and the one word that keeps comin up is that the Dum Dum Girls are stuck-up “knobheads“. I...
The Young Friends
Summer’s almost here, and we’ve got the perfect song for this year’s summer playlist. The Young Friends are Andrew McKee and Brant Stuns who set out to make lo-fi surf pop, having spent time at San Diego’s beaches during one inspiring road trip. The Young Friends has got a new album out, which was recorded...
