Mixtape Monday: Summer Rain
The Savage Blush – Heartbreak Hunter Ice Balloons – The Wasp Magnetix – Living in a Box A. Savage – Winter in the South Magenta Placenta – Moon Dial Dame – Charm School El Silver Cabs – Figurine Count Vaseline – Cascade
Mixtape Monday: Tracks In Your Town
Genuine Leather – Found a Face Processions – Solipsist Monk Parker – Gaudy Frame Leather Girls – Arabian Daze Ruby Fray – Honor Holiday Music – The Energy Frosty Palms – Blur Guest Rooms – With Me
Music Review: Ride’s “Charm Assault”
In the last five or so years, something wonderful has happened. Bands from many people’s youths have appeared on the scene, whole, intact, and emerging to crowds of fans who have waited their whole lives just to see them play one more time or for the first time ever. My Bloody Valentine, Slowdive, Lush,...
Technicolor Hearts’ “Would You Come Back to Me?”
Austin presents a warm home to creative electric dream-pop darlings Technicolor Hearts. Comprised of songwriter and vocalist Naomi Cherie and multi-instrumentalist Joseph Salazar, Technicolor Hearts knows how to weave soaring soundscapes and dazzling imagery into their music videos, as shown in their most recent “Would You Come Back to Me?”. Their video has a...
Divine Dreamscapes: Pale Dīan
Harnessing the surrealism of David Lynch and the soprano of Cocteau Twins’ Elizabeth Fraser, Pale Dīan certainly evokes a transcendental experience when it comes to their aesthetic and live performance. Initially forming in Dallas, Texas, guitarist Derek Kutzer and vocalist Ruth Smith established new ground in Austin this past summer, as well as a...
Wildhoney Takeover!
Wildhoney You may want to think twice before hastening to place a label on Wildhoney – often referenced as shoegaze or along the same ilk as My Bloody Valentine and Slowdive, the band would rather express their song-writing and music as genre-free. The band, consisting of vocalist Lauren Shusterich, drummer Zach Inscho, guitarists Joe...
La Casa Al Mare Brings Shoegaze Reverb From Rome, Italy
Rome’s shoegaze and dream-pop band La Casa Al Mare (which translates best to “The House By the Sea”) came to fruition in 2008 as guitarist and vocalist Alessio Pindinelli’s solo project, but later turned into a fleshed out band with Marco Poloni on bass and Paolo Miceli on drums. The band members met through...
Dear Tracks Takeover!
“Dear Tracks comes to ones ear as a nebulous, sugar coated enigma. Focusing on sweet melodies and dreamy guitars evoking warm feelings of a radiating sun.” – Indie Current Dear Tracks is a dream pop band based out of Grand Rapids, MI formed by Matt Messore. Messore used to play in a band...
Omega Vague’s ‘Reveries’
Seems like everyone and their grandma is a musician these days. In a world of beats made on laptops and “help me record my debut album!” Kickstarters, it’s easy to miss truly good self-recorded/produced music while you’re trying to avoid all the “experimental” garbage out there. Luckily, I’ve got a pretty solid homemade-ish album...
Mixtape Monday: SXSW 2014
Mixtape Monday: SXSW 2014 from anonmagazine on 8tracks Radio. Blouse – Into Black Diarrhea Planet – Ugliest Son Heavenly Beat – Tradition Ty Segall – The Hill Dum Dum Girls – Lost Boys And Girls Club Coachwhips – You Gonna Get It Kurt Vile – Girl Called Alex Kelis – Jerk Ribs Saint Rich – Officer Ex-Cult – Knives On Both Sides The Coup...
