I really like Night Riots’ newest single “Spiders.”
The band is playing at the Troubadour on Friday June 7th.
Listen to “Spiders” below — the song starts with a dark distorted snare beat, and the vocals somehow manage to maintain this dark tone while also transcending it in the more hopeful choruses.
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Bora York is a band from Minneapolis that I discovered on Twitter.
Dreaming Free is an amazing album of 11 dream-pop songs like “So Heavenly,” “Ghost Lights,” and “New England Love.”
Listen to the whole album over at Bandcamp.
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Photo Credit: After The Show
Ex Cops played their first ever LA show last night, opening for Bleached at The Troubadour.
The band kicked off their set with “Ken,” followed by “You Are A Lion, I Am A Lamb,” which set the tone for their band as one of controlled energy, dreamy guitar tones, and lush male-female vocals.
Ex Cops (Brian Harding and Amalie Bruun) were backed by 3 other musicians, and they played to a packed house (mostly full of teenagers).
Photo Credit: After The Show
They played a brand new song that sounded good — nice bass line and chord changes. Ex Cops’ penultimate song was “James,” which sounded way too rushed! “James” is such an amazing song but I couldn’t appreciate it when it was played so fast.
Check out: Ex Cops’ official website + Twitter for 2 more LA dates + the rest of the tour.
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“You Know Me” by Air Traffic Controller:
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The Sleep Wells are an unsigned band from the UK.
“Please,” the band’s latest single, is a really solid track. It starts with just vocals and soft electric guitar, and then more vocals come in. The song changes in tone after the 3:00 minute mark, and I’d prefer if the song just ended before that.
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Have you heard of the band Minipop?
Minipop has two great songs — “Generator” and “Someone To Love”:
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Tennis is a husband/wife duo originally from Denver.
Check out their song “Deep in the Woods”:
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I saw the very end of Teeth & Tongue’s set opening for Big Scary and liked what I heard.
Check out their song “Vaseline On The Lens” (it sounds quite licensable):
Big Scary, the Australian duo of Tom Iansek and Jo Syme, played at Pianos last night (Wednesday October 24th).
Big Scary have been a band since 2006, and they released their first songs back in 2008 .
The electric guitar driven “Gladiator” as well as the keyboard driven “Falling Away” were really great live, even for people in the audience who hadn’t necessarily heard the album versions of those songs.
Big Scary ended their set with “Purple” off of their Vacation LP, which sounded a bit out of place (it’s more aggressive, with a spoken word chorus) compared to their other songs.
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“All Boy Band” is a song by Park Ave., a band that featured two members of Tilly and the Wall and Conor Oberst on drums.
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