Courtesy of The Vaccines' Russian website. Rewind to Outside Lands 2011. I was 16, just barely a young adult. My best friend and I braved the festival wholeheartedly, taking in every moment of our music-filled surroundings. That and some second-hand...
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The Current: Stream of Consciousness on Music Streaming
When I first started listening to what I define as “good” music, I would find a lot of new bands from Pandora Internet Radio. I'd plug in a song I liked and then some sort of computer algorithm would be employed and find me a bunch of other sick songs similar to...
Deerhoof, "La Isla Bonita" (Polyvinyl)
With nothing more than ten days of jam sessions, contemporary indie giants Deerhoof release one of their best efforts in years. There's something so impressive about fluency. When a studio artist doodles out of boredom and produces a beautiful portrait, when your...
Cooly G, "Wait ‘Til Night" (Hyperdub)
Commanding nocturnal blues.The title to Cooly G's latest full length effort, Wait 'Til Night, should be taken as a command as much as you should take it as simply a title, as this record seems only to exists between twilight and the break of dawn. There's a...
East India Youth, "Total Strife Forever" (Stolen Recordings)
Catharsis in a closet.This is just one of those times when the album art doesn't match the music. In my opinion at least. Whereas the cover is the stuff of traditional melancholy, an array of blues molding a somber face, Total Strife Forever (someone's bitter) is...
Deptford Goth, "Songs" (Pias)
A follow up album worth the listen.On his sophomore LP, British producer Daniel Woolhouse moves forward from his somber debut of 2013 toward somewhat of a sense of resolution. While his first record was weak trembling, Songs is lightness with a glaze of groove. What...
Son Little, "Things I Forgot" (Anti)
Neo-blues with all sorts of unique elements.Soulful and bluesy, Son Little's “Things I Forgot” gives a new twist to 20th century blues by adding in rock and indie elements. Little's vocals are one of the most impressive aspects of this album, and can be heard in...
Algernon Doll, "Omphalic" (Struggletown)
Slightly pop-y 90's alternative rock-inspired tunes.Algernon Doll would probably fit snugly on a bill with any 90's alt rock outfit. That isn't to say that they sound generic though; in fact, solo artist Ewan Grant has skillfully taken the recognizable sound and...
Filmstrip, "Moments of Matter" (Exit Stencil)
The twang and jangle of indie-country.Moments of Matter is everything a stereotypical indie-country album should be (if a genre such as this exists). It has the jangly guitars, some fiddlers, vocals with a southern twang, and lyrics expressing the importance of...
HAERTS, "HAERTS" (Columbia)
Glittery indie-pop overload.In early October 2013, the indie pop band known as HAERTS, released their first EP entitled Hemiplegia. Their upbeat 80's synth style mixed with shimmery guitar melodies and smooth female vocals helped to establish their sound and earned...