Trivial Shields release their second single Enough, in anticipation of their forthcoming EP Invisible Winter. The song was recorded to tape at esteemed SF studio Tiny Telephone by Bay Area luminary Robert Shelton (DRMS);...
Mortar & Pestle...
posted by Stuart Morrison
U.V. is the first single from the upcoming debut self-titled album by Oakland, California–based trio Mortar & Pestle, scheduled for release on May 7th, 2013 from the Post Primal...
Foxtails Brigade: Th...
posted by Stuart Morrison
Foxtails Brigade just dropped a new single called “The Unloved”, the first from their new album Time Is Passed, which was released this week. The song is an Eleanor-Rigby-esque look at the lonely and forsaken,...
Saint Motel: 1997
posted by Stuart Morrison
From their debut abum “Voyeur” Available NOW for pre-sale: Here “With sophisticated savvy and singularity, the Los Angeles quartet Saint Motel has built a formidable reputation on the back of inventive...
Hella: Headless
posted by Stuart Morrison
From Tripper, their newly completed fifth album, due out August 30th, 2011 on Sargent House. After a four year hiatus, the duo featuring drummer Zach Hill and guitarist Spencer Seim has returned. Stripped back down to the...
Letting Up Despite G...
posted by Stuart Morrison
After taking last summer to record new music, Los Angeles based Letting Up Despite Great Faults, has hit the road again this month. Joining Future Sound’s Rumble Tour, the band played a string of FREE west coast dates...
Steve Cowgill: Every...
posted by Stuart Morrison
“Steve Cowgill is the lead guitarist and occasional singer of acoustic surf rock favorites Bag of Toys. Fresh from San Francisco, Bag of Toys is a four piece acoustic surf-rock band now based in Wilmington, NC. The...
Voxhaul Broadcast: L...
posted by Stuart Morrison
Voxhaul Broadcast are currently on the East Coast leg of their national tour and anointed NYC with a blistering set on Wednesday evening at Fontana’s in the Lower East Side. Voxhaul Broadcast has pretty much taken...
Shadow Shadow Shade:...
posted by Stuart Morrison
From their self-titled album. Shadow Shadow Shade is a Los Angeles based septet that occupies a psychedelic space somewhere between a mass spectacle, marching band and Wagnerian opera. Shadow Shadow Shade is an ambitious...
The Shimmies: Belove...
posted by Stuart Morrison
The Shimmies give regards “To All Beloved Enemies” on debut album Still maturing from a childhood project that combined brothers Sean and Jimmy Galloway’s first names, The Shimmies have created a self-appointed genre...
Finest Dearest: 99
posted by Stuart Morrison
From their album Good Enough In early summer of 2004, San Francisco’s Finest Dearest began practicing in a basement bedroom, hashing out concepts and ideas. After a series of musical chairs in the lineup, the band emerged...
Tera Melos: Frozen Z...
posted by Stuart Morrison
Tera Melos to unleash their Rats. Not literally, but Patagonian Rats the band’s first proper full-length, which is packed with wily melodies and scurrying rhythms. Tera Melos formed in 2004 as a quartet, releasing...
Sea of Bees: Marmala...
posted by Stuart Morrison
From the album Songs for the Ravens Julie Ann Bee is an epically rare musician who has crafted Songs For The Ravens, her first LP and follow-up to Sea of Bees’ debut Bee Eee Pee EP, with the kind of intuitive knowing...
Echoes de Luxe: The ...
posted by Stuart Morrison
Some retro sounding 70s influenced Rock on the Daily Dose today. Best of all, the album The NotreMonde Demos by Los Angeles’ Echoes de Luxe is available as a free download from Bandcamp For those who miss the era...
Big Light: Monster
posted by Stuart Morrison
From their just-released album Animals In Bloom on Reapandsow Inc Big Light is a rock band from San Francisco. Formed in 2007 as a vehicle for singer/guitarist Fred Torphy to get his songs into the world, the band...
House of Broken Prom...
posted by Stuart Morrison
From their Album Using The Useless just released on Small Stone Records and IODA Resurrected from the remnants of Unida (the John Garcia-fronted stoner band post Kyuss and Slo Burn) HOBP erupts in a cataclysmic blast of...
Brookhaven: Out on t...
posted by Stuart Morrison
From their new album ‘When the Chorus Walks’, which is the follow-up to 2005’s ‘Transitive Verses’ BROOKHAVEN began in 2000 as the home recording project of Sonny James, a certain hybrid of...
The Littlest Viking:...
posted by Stuart Morrison
From their debut full length album Labor & Lust From San Pedro, California, The Littlest Viking are: Christopher Patrick Gregory- Drum solos/What? Ruben Jesse Cortez- Guitar/delusions of grandeur We...
Geoff Ereth: An Unli...
posted by Stuart Morrison
From his recently released album “Drunk With Translation” Geoff Ereth is a singer-songwriter and multi-instrumentalist from Fountain Valley, CA. His music has been described as orchestral folk due to the...