High Times is the third EP from Los Angeles indie group Blonde Summer. Continuing with the warm and bright slacker-pop sound, singer Chris Pope delivers stories of deadbeat burnouts, and tattered 90’s beach rats. ...
Vintage Moon: Tyro
posted by Stuart Morrison
Vintage Moon are a new band out of Silverlake Los Angeles and they just released Tyro, the first single off their upcoming EP which they plan to release in November/December. They say of themselves: “We play retro...
Blonde Summer: Robot...
posted by Charles Stepczyk
Blonde Summer is a band of Los Angeles natives, led by singer/guitarist Chris Pope. Their sophomore EP, Slow Daze, plunges to new depths, exploring the limits of indie-pop infused California surf-rock, and their warm weather...
Holmes: Mosquitoes
posted by Charles Stepczyk
Holmes can often be found buried under a mountain of vintage recording gear in his cozy Silverlake, California home studio, cooking up tracks for himself, other artists, television and film. Roy Shakked, under his moniker...
IR: The SoCal Sessio...
posted by Charles Stepczyk
Today’s primarily Los Angeles based show slowly crept upward from 6 tracks, doubling in size as we gradually realized that we had an oversharing problem. While this can swifly turn to embarrassment in social...
Yours Til Death: Hel...
posted by Charles Stepczyk
Yours Til Death began as the brainchild of songwriter/singer/guitarist Adam Ross. Having just finished touring the world as guitarist for multi-platinum artist Rihanna, Ross assembled Yours Til Death to record their debut...
New Madrid Faults: L...
posted by Charles Stepczyk
You may remember Los Angeles indie pop outfit Gertie Fox, and if so, you may also recognize some similarities shared with the new Bethlehem, Pennsylvania indie five-piece ‘New Madrid Faults’. Apparently Matt...
Insomnia Radio #161 ...
posted by Charles Stepczyk
No, we didn’t win the mustard yellow belt this past year, but we accumulated so many tracks last year and through the first few weeks of 2009, we’ve felt over-gorged on music and wanted to start sharing some with...
AMPed New Music Week...
posted by Charles Stepczyk
This week’s host: George Smyth from Eclectic Mix Show: The DarkCompass Metal Show Song: Tonight (Sanguine) Show: PC Podcast with Pete Cogle Song: Matador (Sky Larkin) Show: Ourobouros Podcast Song: Lazy Fat Stupid...
IR: SoCal Spotlight ...
posted by Charles Stepczyk
Based in Los Angeles and formed in 2002, Summer Darling began as a three piece indie pop band with an interest in songwriting and melody. Comprised of vocalist / songwriter Ben Heywood, drummer / guitarist Dan Rossiter and...