Portland’s BRAINSTORM just returned from a tour to SXSW, Treefort Festival and back. We were fortunate to have the PDX trio join us for our own Cascadia SXSW showcase. One of their jams that’s been stuck in my mind since Noise Pop in February is “She Moves”, embedded below. Now the equally excellent “She […]
Los Angeles’ group Bleached will drop their latest album Ride Your Heart this Tuesday, 4/2. But the full album is now streaming. Have a listen below and you can pre-order it from Dead Oceans here.
On May 21, Radiation City will release their new album Animals in the Median. I, for one, am really fuckin’ excited about this. Having caught caught the PDX quintet a handful of times from Rickshaw Stop to their sold out Independent show with Pickwick to SXSW, I’ve been fortunate to enjoy the new album tracks in […]
Bay Area tune bird Mikal Cronin has a new album titled MCII comin out 5/7 on Merge. I caught Mikal opening for Thee Oh Sees at SXSW, which makes sense considering the narrowing degrees of separation between the former, Ty Segall and the latter. Mikal dropped a new track titled “Weight” today. Given Mikal’s past work […]
Philadelphia’s Verbatum Jones, self described rapper with his “Bill Cosby on with the sweater”, hit me up this morning with his new video for “Nappy”. It’s produced by bahwee and apparently marks the first release off Jones’ upcoming .winter project. I’m new to the dude, but dig what I’ve heard so far. Check out the video plus […]