Exit Clov: District Menagerie
Washington DC favorites EXIT CLOV are back with a newer single that was first put out in 2008, and more recently released on the 2010 full length, ‘Memento Mori’. The Lovely Hearts Club blog run by the good folk at…
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Oars: Karats
In the spring of 2008, the unassuming duo Oars (David Bratton and Earl Muehlenbach) began an intensive six months of recording, song crafting and experimentation in a closet-sized Greenpoint [Brooklyn] studio across the street from a fish-smoking plant. Relying on…
Wild Party: Take My Advice
Imagine The Rolling Stones, Talking Heads and Flock of Seagulls got locked into a studio for a week with nothing but their instruments, a disco ball and a healthy supply of grain alcohol. What do you get when you take…
Hop on Pop: Here
From their album Chicken on a Bicycle Building on the critical acclaim of their 2004 debut, As Drawn by Ethan, Age 2, songwriter Todd Leiter-Weintraub and his motley crew of sonic dilettantes return with a new set of ten songs,…
Brave Chandeliers: Madmen
Brave Chandeliers is a Portland, OR band that sounds like Billy Joel’s Porsche (before he crashed it). For such a young band, they come off as old souls, writing the catchiest alt-pop that manages to portray a fully-formed view of…