Republic of Letters: Help Me
Rather than recycle songs into Best of Lists at year end, I wanted to keep bringing fresh music, as new releases don’t stop coming our direction at the end of the year. The Lost Ark Studio recently helped direct our…
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Sentinel: Baby Please Come Home
Merry Christmas to all from the IR family! You caught us just as we are unwrapping our final gift from California Bay area dreampop band SENTINEL. After getting in the holiday spirit close to October, the band put the finishing…
Saint Motel: Benny Goodman
(…) it was at the Palomar Ballroom in Los Angeles, in his darkest hour, when his band was nearly broke, that they finally hit and Benny became the King of Swing. What could have been the end turned out to…
A.K.N.U: Owe Me Love
A-new. That’s how you should read it. But it means A Kind Never Understood. And you should remember them as the trio that writes and play their music, and also create their own choreography, with talent. Otherwise we wouldn’t be…
Lavinia Slaughter: Sinner
I first heard this song on DJ AmperDan’s Monday Night Pop Show on Radio Valencia FM. (DJ AmperDan is AKA Dan Hooper, some time host of IR: San Francisco). There is very little information about Californian artist Lavinia Slaughter on…