Seatraffic impressed me a few weeks ago at SFStation + BAMM.tv‘s SFLineup show. Their single for “Speed Limits” was the first (and only) song I heard from these guys, and needless to say… I was won over. It’s something about that slowcore shoegaze sound that gets me, especially if it’s done right. It was...
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Sometimes I completely forget that radio friendly music exists. That’s not to say I don’t listen to the radio (I think I might be one of the last out of my friends to listen to the radio) but the world of radio music and the music I usually write about never seems to mingle....
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Something I’ve been lacking has been the home towners. The Bay Area is vastly underrepresented on this website, which is completely bogus seeing how 1) the headquarters is here in SF, 2) the majority of us grew up in the Bay Area music scene and 3) we all still live here. Aside from Finley...
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That band you saw in some bar? Yeah, they put out albums. Some bar bands are definitely better than others. I remember once I saw this guy Alexis Harte and his band play at Aroma Roaster’s in Santa Rosa, California once (coffee shops count too, right?) and he blew me away. Ended up buying...
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I mean… you could just guess this was going to be another one of those indie beach jams. I mean, “beach” is in the title. And the first track had that Chevy Bel-Air flavor to it, which didn’t hinder the stereotype. But something strange happened on this album half way through the first track....
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The hip-hop underground scene has melded into slam poetry put over a ghetto beat. Folks like Sage Francis and Aesop Rock have made their way into a more “visible” underground by doing it really well. The Wine Thieves both have the voices to pull off a decent record, their flow is decent, but the...
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Speed the Plough definitely caught me off guard. At first listen, it’s not different. Some might consider it refreshing or a throwback… but I mean, call a spade a spade. It’s sort of dated. But for some odd reason… it’s infectious. I sat at my computer for a few minutes trying to figure...
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Valter (Paul Pitkin) is a singer/songwriter who released this EP in a less traditional way than his previous. According to his biography, he decided to go with the flow and not necessarily stick to traditional song structure. For this EP, I’ll be doing a track by track review to trace some of the things...
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This is technically indie, right? I mean, Cake has been through the gauntlet of record label disputes, ultimately creating their own label. This is the first “original content” from Cake’s Upbeat Records. Their last major label release (and last full length release), Pressure Chief, was years ago (seven to be exact) and failed to...
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Of Montreal is an amazing band. So amazing that at one point in my life, I “ghost-rode” my whip down the street to “St. Exquisite’s Confessions”. My girlfriend thought I was crazy, but you try to sit still while listening to their music. A Sample Pros After you get to “L’age D’or” you will...
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