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The Petticoat Tearoom: Love Isn’t Gone

While most residents enjoyed hot dogs and beer watching the Baltimore Ravens play in the Super Bowl last February, The Petticoat Tearoom were busy recording their sophomore self-titled album at Baltimore’s Wright Way Studios. “The city was on fire. There…

Access Royale: Hide

Washington DC’s Access Royale are an indie rock band that discovered each other via Craigslist in early 2011 and soon found themselves flying west to LA to shoot their first music video for today’s featured single, Hide. The band’s debut…

The Funk Ark: Hey Mamajo

That crazy funkadelic track Hey Mamajo propelled me through the high desert, past the ever-glowing live online casino malaysia and up into the Sierras this past weekend, keeping me awake as I arrived in the small mountain community past midnight,…

Dot Dash – The Color and the Sound.mp3

Those of us lamenting the breakup of Julie Ocean after only one zippy, breathless LP can take heart… Dot Dash positively radiates in rushing hooks… matched to a kinetic, elastic post-punk drive… [the] singing is more manic, subtly stretching notes…