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Ok, I know I’ve been super lazy, but it’s only because I’ve been super busy.  Forgive me!  Here’s part two of my end of the year thingamajig.  Enjoy! 10) The Drums – The Drums Yes, I know there are haters out there.  I know the band uses the same beat and gimmick over and over.  [...]

The Genre of Loft-Rock

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There is a new genre forming, and I’ve been trying to come up with a name for it.  Just as chillwave came about a few years ago after a number of bedroom pop acts exploded from their homes, a group of bands today seem to be influencing each other’s sound in the same direction.  These [...]

BLOWING UP: Wildlife

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Wow, this band came out of nowhere and is fantastic.  They have the same expansive indie sound that Local Natives and Arcade Fire are famous for, which I’m sure makes for a completely amazing live show.  Their debut album just came out and is call “Strike Hard, Young Diamond.”  Hailing from Toronto, Canada, Wildlife seems [...]

Wow this show was great.  Local Natives were killer awesome, and the openers didn’t take away anything from the experience whatsoever.  All of the bands played in the same vein of epic reverb-laden joyous rock, the one that I personally believe is going to be identified as its own genre in five years.  I’ll write [...]

GROUPLOVE – “Colours”

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I’ve had this song for a few weeks, but it came up on shuffle today and the resulting noise through my headphones completely blew me away.  Wow, this song is well written, to the point I’ve become obsessed within minutes! GROUPLOVE is a band from Los Angeles and they play something that sounds like Danielson [...]

Mondays by definition suck, so get yourself out of that funk with this mood altering track… Suckers are from Brooklyn, which is weird because you really don’t find that many bands from Brooklyn anymore.  Seriously, though, they are very good and have earned their place as the East Coast version of Local Natives.  They released [...]