The Fresh & Onlys' music is known for being hazy. Taking cues from San Francisco's historic psychedelic music scene, the band layers an aura of cloudiness on top of what essentially are good 'ole pop tunes.
Brainchild of songwriter Alex Pulisci, At Our Heels released their acclaimed self-titled EP two years ago. For their debut album, Pulisci enlisted former Light This City drummer and current Heartsounds frontman, Ben Murray, to man the drums. The...
Grass Widow primarily play an anonymous brand of surf-tinged garage rock, and the ten tracks that make up Past Time do not stray far from that foundation. However, the group is adept at adding just enough textural variance to keep the songs from...
Warm Slime is the latest nugget of psychedelic garage sludge from the Bay Area’s Thee Oh Sees. For years, this quartet of tripsters have been alchemically fusing ’60s pop, dirty Detroit-style rock, and homegrown Bay Area psych into a...
Before I jump into the video, I just have to say.. who on Earth would name an indie pop rock band Stomacher? What is WRONG with you?? Luckily, they have good taste in video, so at least they’re not completely hopeless. There’s...
There’s an episode on Season One of The Mighty Boosh where Vince Noir declares that it’s impossible to be unhappy in a poncho. I’ve yet to test this theory, but I have doubts as to its validity, based on some photos I’ve seen...
The path that led Francesca Lee to her musical career markedly sets her apart from other soft-spoken female musicians toting a piano or guitar. As the daughter of a Polish mother and Korean father, she scraped together money herself to attend...
New video for Foreign Born’s “Early Warnings.” In its ’80s-esque summery treatment, random plants, flowers, and animals are identified almost scientifically, but I don’t think any of them actually exist in our current...