Just got two new singles in the mail from Gold Robot Records, I love with this little label is doing.  The first is a split from Colossal Yes and The Good Fear, two bands from two different sides of the country.  The music is pretty different too, the Colossal Yes side is a recorded-with-one-mic piece [...]

It’s not hard to believe that Underwater Peoples have another underground pop-rock masterpiece on their hands, their output to date has pretty much been 100% so far.  Andrew Cedermark used to play in Titus Andronicus, but has since gone solo to play a more introspective (though comparably explosive at times) brand of rock and roll.  The [...]

Romona Gonzalez’s Nite Jewel project is quickly catapulting her to goddess status among hipsters, crate-diggers, future-funk enthusiasts, and music nerds (us).  Her brand of sexy disco dream-pop is easy to get sucked into, it’s pleasant and pretty.  This new EP on Gloriette has six songs, some of which were reworked from past obscure releases, others [...]

Holy hell I would hate for you guys to miss another Hydra Head vinyl release but I’m afraid a color or two might disappear before this gets posted up in the morning. So it goes. You all know about Torche, right? Heavy metal pop music or something like that? Right. This new eight track vinyl [...]

The brothers Ween continue to paint the town brown with a never ending torrent of vinyl reissues. Coming soon on the Chocodog label (as opposed to the Plain label) is the excellent Quebec from 2003. It’s hard for a band to live up to the expectations set by albums like Pure Guava and Chocolate & [...]

Remember the morning you woke up after a night at the sleazy discotheque with a bloody nose, a few chipped teeth, white powder mashed into your pillow, and a loaded gun on your desk?  This record is probably what you were listening to the night before.  Fucking awesome.  The 7″ comes on clear vinyl for [...]

Bathetic Records’ first foray into vinyl is a stunning pair of tunes from Cloudland Canyon.  This is some krauty, poppy, shoegazing rock-and-roll trapped under a blown-out, shimmering blanket of drone.  What I’m trying to say is, you’ll like it alot, perfect summer waves.  First edition is limited to 350 copies, $7 shipped at BatheticRecords.com.

This one’s got the OMGV staff split right down the middle. Mitch hates it, I love it. Depending how you feel about it, you may or may not want to get a pre-order in for the double LP edition from Parlaphone. That’ll run you about $20 at either amazon.com or auralexploits.com. [Audio clip: view full post [...]

Weekly Tape Deck and Gorilla Vs. Bear‘s Forest Family Records have just dropped their third release, a new single from Austin’s SLEEP ∞ OVER.  This is some blown-out, haunted pop, just listen to it, shit will sound beautiful and creep you out at the same time.  They’ve already released tapes on some of our favorite [...]

Remember how awesome that rad little pop record we posted by Tennis was?  Well, they’ve got another single coming out on one of our favorite labels, Underwater Peoples.  “Baltimore” collects another three songs of pure pop magic.  It’s $7 and ships at the end of the month at UnderwaterPeoples.com. [Audio clip: view full post to [...]

Not only are The Fresh & Onlys seriously, unbelievably prolific, but this is the second solo album from frontman Tim Cohen in under a year.  Cohen’s solo work is slower, prettier, and poppier than his F&O stuff, and this new album finds him achieving an even richer sound than before.  The LP is on the [...]

At some point between shit-talking Lady GaGa and tending to her newborn son, M.I.A. has managed to record a new album and give it a search engine defying title (that’s “M A Y A”, I believe). Pop tunes from a skewed universe with undefined cultural and musical boundaries – pretty much exactly what you would [...]

Look, I know this Wavves guy gets hated on by pretty much everyone, you probably think he’s a douche, etc.  However, I dare you to hate this album, it is an undeniably great record, seriously.  Now with a full studio recording, cleaner production, and Jay Reatard’s former backing band, Nathan Williams is making the best [...]

Ponytail founder Dustin Wong just released this refreshing new cassette on WATERCOLOR (big thanks to a reader for the heads up).  “Let It Go” collects 47 minutes of experimental pop and rock music that will sound unlike almost anything you’ve heard before.  It’s an unbelievably fun album that got me more excited than a tape [...]

Who’s ready to give Kevin Barnes another chance? The last Of Montreal album wasn’t a big hit around these parts, but that just means that this one couldn’t possibly be any worse, right? All shit-talking aside, the new song doesn’t sound half bad and the entire album is being produced by Jon Brion. False Priest [...]