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Koalacaust: The Woods

Before San Francisco band Koalacaust broke up in October, they left us a few new releases of excellent well formulated material, namely the full length ‘Smiles Shine Like Broken Glass’ last August and the December 2010 split EP with Big…

Forrest Day: Sleepwalk

The song you are listening today comes a little late for Halloween, still we want you to meet Forrest Day. The rhythms of hip-hop provide a placemat for nervously melodic splendor and a melting pot of genres. What are we…

The Downer Party: Blue State

“Blue State”, the Downer Party’s second release this year and first 7″, is the perfect follow-up to their spring EP “Cities”. As an ongoing theme, much of the groups lyrics and songwriting describes places and locations (more so than people…

Birdmonster: Yuma

Today marks our third feature of San Francisco based band Birdmonster here on the Network, with a spitfire of a track from their late 2009 release ‘Blood Memory’.  It was produced up at Hyde Street Studios by Tom Schick. You…

Weekend: Hazel

After spending the bulk of the past year on the road in support of last November’s excellent “Sports” LP on Slumberland Records, Weekend have also been hard at work on their followup record. Prior to their European tour in July,…