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I promise I won’t make any Portlandia jokes — I’ll just skip straight to the rub and say I dig Portland’s Youth. They’ve got a moony, sparkly, slanted & enchanted pop vibe. Here’s a couple tracks off their older EP (or maybe it’s just a digital 7") Everything /...
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Another sweet classic from New York’s Beat Radio: the hard times go, part 1 album. Since this is part 1, I’m supposing there will be a part 2. Perhaps 3? Maybe a fantastic trilogy of hard times, getting harder & harder with each outing until the final showdown with...
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Night and day, right? That’s the difference between Pete Feigenbaum’s solo project Blizzardo and some of his other gigs, including Dinowalrus. Blizzardo is straight synthesized sugar cereal. Music for late late late night parties at the houses of people you don’t know, in towns you’ve never been to. Kinda...
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A while back I wrote up the Go Primal EP by Atlanta’s Nomen Novum. The EP had the strange & unusual quality of being both very experimental and very listenable. Usually it’s one or the other. But the layers of textured aural collage & found sounds were so seductively...
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MMM-MMMP3s is not much for posting covers or remixes. Even less for the Lana Del Rey thing. But we’ll make an exception for Vacation, a New York-based outfit who we’ve covered extensively in this column. In fact, I think we’re becoming the foremost web authority on Vacation. We can...
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This s/t EP from Eau Claire’s Adelyn Rose is a year or so old, and she’s put out more recent stuff, but I’m digging it right now. So if you haven’t heard her stripped down indie folk stylings, get on it now. If you listen to a lot of...
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The American Leagues LP (2010) is in the rearview mirror for the West Coast band LA Font, a righteous Pavement-meets-Q and not U foursome, who are busy prepping for a new album. But it’s worth taking a look back to remind ourselves of the band’s pop chops, and, hopefully,...
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Radar Eyes, one of my favorite acts around Chicago, has a s/t debut LP coming out at the beginning of February on HoZac Records. The band has ascended through the ranks & jumped all the regular hurdles: regular gigging at one-offs & fests, a cassette release on Plus Tapes,...
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Until I hear something that demonstrates otherwise, I’m gonna go ahead & think of the Movie Star imprint as a sort of Ariel Pink Fan Club. The artists on board have an effervescent, amorphous pop sensuality a la His Holy Meltdown, and that suits me just fine. Paula is...
I promise I won’t make any Portlandia jokes — I’ll just skip straight to the rub and say I dig Portland’s Youth. They’ve got a moony, sparkly, slanted & enchanted pop vibe. Here’s a couple tracks off their older EP (or maybe it’s just a digital 7") Everything /...
Another sweet classic from New York’s Beat Radio: the hard times go, part 1 album. Since this is part 1, I’m supposing there will be a part 2. Perhaps 3? Maybe a fantastic trilogy of hard times, getting harder & harder with each outing until the final showdown with...
Night and day, right? That’s the difference between Pete Feigenbaum’s solo project Blizzardo and some of his other gigs, including Dinowalrus. Blizzardo is straight synthesized sugar cereal. Music for late late late night parties at the houses of people you don’t know, in towns you’ve never been to. Kinda...
A while back I wrote up the Go Primal EP by Atlanta’s Nomen Novum. The EP had the strange & unusual quality of being both very experimental and very listenable. Usually it’s one or the other. But the layers of textured aural collage & found sounds were so seductively...
MMM-MMMP3s is not much for posting covers or remixes. Even less for the Lana Del Rey thing. But we’ll make an exception for Vacation, a New York-based outfit who we’ve covered extensively in this column. In fact, I think we’re becoming the foremost web authority on Vacation. We can...
This s/t EP from Eau Claire’s Adelyn Rose is a year or so old, and she’s put out more recent stuff, but I’m digging it right now. So if you haven’t heard her stripped down indie folk stylings, get on it now. If you listen to a lot of...
The American Leagues LP (2010) is in the rearview mirror for the West Coast band LA Font, a righteous Pavement-meets-Q and not U foursome, who are busy prepping for a new album. But it’s worth taking a look back to remind ourselves of the band’s pop chops, and, hopefully,...
Radar Eyes, one of my favorite acts around Chicago, has a s/t debut LP coming out at the beginning of February on HoZac Records. The band has ascended through the ranks & jumped all the regular hurdles: regular gigging at one-offs & fests, a cassette release on Plus Tapes,...
Until I hear something that demonstrates otherwise, I’m gonna go ahead & think of the Movie Star imprint as a sort of Ariel Pink Fan Club. The artists on board have an effervescent, amorphous pop sensuality a la His Holy Meltdown, and that suits me just fine. Paula is...