It seems the whole boy/girl duo creating happy indie pop songs has been done a million times over now with the breakout success of bands like Tennis and Cults. Freedom Fry haven’t changed the formula, but they’ve certainly done a great job trying to perfect it. Here’s their new single “Earthquake” which will be released [...]

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One of my favorite pop-punk acts of last year Half Hearted Hero released a split with Deadhorse to book end 2011. While I first overlooked Deadhorse’s contribution to the 7″ I was taken aback after hearing “New Bones”. The instrumental gem brings to mind mixes of Explosions In The Sky’s epic orchestration combined with Yndi [...]

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I stumbled across One For The Team recently after digging through my Last.fm recommendations. After hearing “Someone Elses Knife” I immediately went out and grabbed their last full-length Ghosts which will be having it’s 2 year anniversary this March. Just like Minnesota natives Now, Now, One For The Team exude a sweet poppy charm that’s [...]

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Museum Mouth’s title track for their forthcoming full-length Sexy But Not Happy wreaks of self-indulgent apathy, meddling through a wall of gain-ey nostalgic surf-rock that takes cues from similar acts like No Age and Wavves. Their formula, much like the aforementioned, takes pride in being jovially sloppy while calmly endearing. The band are set to [...]

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RIYL // TILLY AND THE WALL, FLOWERS FOREVER, WILD NOTHING, SMALL BLACK If your familiar with Saddle Creek, Team Love or Tilly and The Wall chances are you already know Derek Pressnall, who compromises one third of Icky Blossoms. Apparently the TATW guitarist has branched off forming yet another band, Icky Blossoms. After releasing just [...]

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I came across Code Orange Kids after being introduced to last years Cycles EP, which came heavily recommended from my little brother (not the first, not the last time I’ll be giving credits to him). Clocking in at 5 tracks shading just under 10 minutes Cycles is a blistering display of no-frills hardcore, showcasing a [...]

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The amount of quality music that has spawned from Minneapolis youngn’s Now, Now is ridiculous. Last year Jess Abbott introduced her awesome solo project Tancred which made it onto my best of 2011. Now, Now’s drummer Bradley Hale has now followed suit, debuting the first track from his solo outfit Sombear. You can stream the [...]

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For the past few months I’ve been receiving emails from Damien Fairchild a self-described 13 year old kid from my local town who had been recording “14 songs for 14 girls” and was going to release them on February 14th…Which just happened to be his, wait for it…14th birthday If it all seems a little [...]

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Leave it up to Sargent House to do my the dirty work for me. After seeing that Indian Handcrafts were the latest addition to one of the most deadly labels in the scene, I had to check em out. The canadian duo released a self titled EP this past year full of filthy metal hellbent [...]

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RIYL: Edward Sharpe and The Magnetic Zeros, The Black Keys After listening to “Brother” the first track off of Matt Corby’s new Into The Flame EP i’m sitting at my computer a bit aghast to how relatively unknown he is. The 20 year old Australian brings a furious and frenzied onslaught of bluesy, immediate bluesy [...]

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