Tag: San Diego

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New Video: The Donkeys’ Shoegazer/Psych Rock-Channeling New Single “No Need For Oxygen”

In order to build up buzz for their upcoming cross country tour, which includes an early August stop at Baby’s All Right, The Donkeys released a live video performing their moody and stunningly gorgeous, shoegaze-leaning new single “No Need for Oxygen” which has the band pairing shimmering keyboard and guitar chords, propulsive drumming, a with plaintive and aching vocals in an expansive song structure that owes a debt to classic psych rock as it does to prog rock and held together with an impressive and gorgeous guitar solo.

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New Video: Introducing the Old School Sound Sound of San Diego’s Rebecca Jade

Two time San Diego Music Award-winning soul/pop/R&B artist Rebecca Jade can trace the origins of her music career to growing up in an extremely musical home — her mother, was a professional jazz singer in Puerto […]

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Live Concert Photography: Shark Week, Christines, and Crocodiles at Union Pool 4/29/15

Live Concert Photography: Shark Week, Christines and Crocodiles Union Pool April 29, 2015 Last week I was at Williamsburg’s Union Pool to catch the Washington, DC-based Shark Week, the New York-based Christines and the San Diego, […]

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Comprised of Brock Potucek, Sarica Douglas, Zach Van Benthuzen, Christian O’Reilly and Billy Belzer the Kansas City-based slacker punk quintet of Lazy has recorded and released material though a variety of labels including Moniker Records, Manic Static […]

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The UK-based pop act THUMPERS have received quite a bit of love on both sides of the Atlantic after the release of “Unkinder (A Tougher Love),” the first single of their debut full-length Galore. And once you […]

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Released last August, by Brooklyn-based indie rock label, Frenchkiss Records, Crimes of Passion is the follow up to the San Diego, CA-based band Crocodiles’ critically praised, Endless Flowers,. And through both effort,s the band has […]

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Glow and Behold, the London-based Yuck’s sophomore album was critically well-received. And while playing sold out venues across the US and in their native London, the band stopped in the studio to record an EP […]

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http://www.npr.org/templates/event/embeddedVideo.php?storyId=264894944&mediaId=264895919 When Zach Gray’s (vocals and guitar) and Tom Dobrzanski’s (piano and vocals) previous project, Lotus Child ended, the duo continued onward as the Zolas, and with their latest project, the duo of Gray and Dobrzanski have continued a […]

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Fronted by siblings, Robert and Rachel Kolar, the quintet of He’s My Brother She’s My SIster have won quite  bit of attention for a sound that’s happily genre-defying. In some way, this live footage of […]

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San Diego-based band Crocodiles will be releasing their forthcoming new album, Crimes of Passion later this month. And although the band has developed a reputation for an explosively loud, scuzzy sound (catching them live, is a testament to […]

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Damp Face is the latest EP from the Seattle, WA-based quartet of La Luz. “Sure as Spring” is the latest single from that EP, and when you listen to the track, it should remind you of […]

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San Diego-based band Crocodiles will be releasing their forthcoming new album, Crimes of Passion during the summer. And although the band has developed a reputation for an explosively loud, scuzzy sound, lead singer Brandon Welchez enlisted the […]

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Bay Area retro-punks Shannon and the Clams latest album, Dreams in the Rat House sees it’s official release through Hardly Art Records today. “Rip Van Winkle” is the second single from the new album, and although […]

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Sub Pop Records will be releasing the London-based duo, Still Corners’ sophomore effort Strange Pleasures on May 7th. “Berlin Lovers,” the first single off the album has the band gently expanding their sound with a greater emphasis […]

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“Zombies” is the second single from the Portland, OR-based band Radiation City’s upcoming Tender Loving Empire Records release, Animals in the Median, and what i love about this song is that it sounds like it was […]