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Download: Goldenboy, ‘Starlight Town’

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Goldenboy’s lush and warm but melancholic indie-pop has been a work in progress ever since singer-guitarist Shon Sullivan embarked on the project while playing in Elliott Smith’s band over a decade ago. Through four albums, Sullivan and percussionist Bryan Bos (now joined in the quartet by Nicole Verhamme and Katy Stone) have put the rock […]

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Video: The Burning of Rome, ‘Norman Bates’

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There’s something – no, there’s a lot – that’s weird and wonderful about the Burning of Rome’s debut “With Us,” an album of gleeful genre-mashing and subversive theatricality that might seem too oddball to take seriously if not for its sharp songcraft. The San Diego-bred quartet of singer-keyboardist Adam Traub, guitarist Joe Aguilar, keyboardist Aimee […]

Ears Wide Open: Song Preservation Society

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With a name like Song Preservation Society, you get the feeling Daniel Wright, Trevor Bahnson and Ethan Glazer are trying to keep their music organic. And that’s true for the most part when it comes to the L.A.-based folk-rock trio, whose acoustic stylings are composed of not much more than three voices, three guitars and […]

Stream: Chad Valley, ‘Tell All Your Friends’

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Seven months later, we remember two things about coming across Chad Valley at SXSW: 1) Our feet were as aching as his music was soothing, and 2) We kept getting Tears for Fears flashbacks. Next week, the Oxford, U.K., electro alchemist’s debut “Young Hunger” comes out. And our feet are much better, thank you, and […]

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Ears Wide Open: Drab Majesty

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Drab Majesty‘s sound is a psychedelic, warped foray into New Wave-influenced shoegaze, and it’s quite the departure for Andrew Clinco who also plays in L.A. band Incan Abraham. Writing music under a persona named “Deb Demure,” Clinco’s debut EP “Unarian Dance” is a cooling amalgamation of his baritone drenched in reverb, swirling synths and driving […]

Ears Wide Open: Rhye

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Ambient electronic soul duo Rhye had anonymous members for a while, but at least one half of the band sounded familiar. The tender, immaculate vocals that carried their first single “Open” back in February offered classical-jazz undertones which is incorporated into much of Mike Milosh’s music. It turns out the Toronto electronic artist Milosh is […]

Download: United Ghosts, ‘Unhypnotized’

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The first song from United Ghosts, last fall’s “Holes Into the Night,” bore only traces of Madchester edginess of singer-guitarist Axel Steuerwald’s great but lamentably overlooked work in Mere Mortals. Owing to the new collaboration with singer-bassist Sha Sabi, United Ghosts conjures up the specters of the dreamier shoegazers of that era. “Unhypnotized,” a delirious […]

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Ears Wide Open: Echoes de Luxe

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Sonic texture seems to be Echoes de Luxe‘s thing, and it’s a good focus to have. The band’s tight ’70s rock sound first caught the ears of producer Pete Lyman (Mars Volta, Death Cab For Cutie) back in 2009, who went on to work with them on their 2010 EP “The Notremonde Demos.” Core members […]

Download: Earlimart, ‘Internet Summer’

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With today’s physical release of their new album “System Preferences,” we get another solid nugget of music from Earlimart. Following up their last single “’97 Heart Attack” and their last live show for a while, Aaron Espinoza and Ariana Murray’s new single “Internet Summer” brims with a palpable energy. Driven by a young, fresh momentum, […]

Download: Kisses, ‘Endeavor’

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Fueled by their fascination with space shuttle Endeavour, Jesse Kivel and Zinzi Edmundson – better known as synth-pop duo Kisses – offer a track off of their forthcoming “Original Planets” EP. Although the song doesn’t actually feature any of those swoon-worthy boy-girl harmonies, the song still fills in all the moody sound pockets like past […]

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