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Surf Rock

Best Coast – “The Only Place” LP Drops May 15 / Tour Itinerary

April 18, 2012

The other news of the week (besides the Sonic Boom announcement of course) is the new album for Best Coast. They too, like Hot Panda, easily scored in my top albums of 2010 with “Crazy For You”. California surf-pop at its finest, I was really hoping this band would find their way to Edmonton this [...]

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Album Review: Dum Dum Girls – Only In Dreams

September 30, 2011

Artist: Dum Dum Girls Album: Only In Dreams Overall Rating: 6.5 Release Date: September 27 2011 Label: Sub Pop Sophomore albums can be a tricky ride. California’s Dum Dum Girls released their second disc “Only In Dreams” earlier this week with much hype in the music media and blogosphere, after a widely-lauded debut album that [...]

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Wavves – “Bug” Video / EP “Life Sux” Out Now

September 29, 2011

California’s indie-surf-rockers Wavves released a new video recently for the track “Bug”. It’s on their EP “Life Sux”, which dropped a couple of weeks ago.

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Colleen Green – Stream “Rabid Love” /

September 15, 2011

Oakland’s noise pop artist Colleen Green will release her newest EP – “Cujo” – October 4th on Art Fag; cover art to the left. We’ve also got a stream of one of those tracks below, “Rabid Love”. I listened to a couple other tracks on Tuesday night, and was just blown away. Crank up the [...]

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Capitol 6 – “Captain Rehab” / LP Out Now On Light Organ

August 11, 2011

I mentioned Malcolm Jack’s primary project, Sun Wizard, yesterday as they’re playing some dates this fall with The Pack A.D. Today I’m talking about another project of his, Capitol 6. Obviously based in Vancouver as well, their debut EP “Captain Rehab” was released yesterday on Light Organ Records. The label itself has an extraordinary roster [...]

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Surfer Blood – New EP “Tarot Classics” Drops October 25 on Kanine

August 10, 2011

Surfer Blood, who we mentioned last September, is set to release a new EP, “Tarot Classics”, on October 25 (Kanine Records). It will be their first EP since their critically successful debut full-length “Astro Coast” in 2010. The EP will include a total of four tracks: “I’m Not Ready”; “Miranda”; “Voyager Reprise”; and “Drinking Problem”. [...]

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Tropical Popsicle – “The Beach With No Footprints”

July 22, 2011

Tropical Popsicle is the stage name for San Diego’s Tim Hines, who has been busy adding other musicians recently to round out the group’s stage sound. I don’t even know how the journey started, or its midpoint, but the other night I ended up at their bandcamp page, where I heard the track “The Beach [...]

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Dirty Gold – “California Sunrise” Video

July 15, 2011

Dirty Gold “California Sunrise” from Sezio on Vimeo. I was trying Hype Machine’s new Fast Forward feature (which plays a quick clip of a song, and below it shows the page it comes from on one of the many music blogs they track) the other night and came across California’s Dirty Gold. The band has [...]