2009, Blackest Rainbow
"OK, so there's been much talk about this tape. Best Coast is the debut solo release from Bethany Cosentino, who was formerly known as one half of Pocahaunted. Here Bethany heads solo style with some super sweet summertime lo-fi beach pop gems. There are some slight touches of Pocahaunted memories in there, with Bethany's total killer relaxed vocals and simplistic guitar jamming sounding as great as ever but in the new setting of late evening red sky beach bum bliss. 5 songs in just under 15 minutes to blast on the beach on your 80s ghetto…

Hole Class is a "Collaboration between Beth Murphy of Times New Viking & Rob Enbom of Eat Skull, which doesn’t really sound like either band, while at the same time working within a vague aesthetic spectrum common to both bands. …"
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Video for the new single by The Twilight Sad, I Became a Prostitute.
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"Terror Bird is Nikki Never from Vancouver's Modern Creatures solo outlet. One of the finest recordings released in any format on Night People, Terror Bird is honest, heartfelt, nostalgic pop music, layered in touches of dark ambiance and glittery sheen."
SOUNDS LIKE
…"Kate Bush making out with Morrissey." Or Zola Jesus making out with Jeremy Jay. Or whatever. Sounds great.
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…Sneakers' sound definitely brings Cave to mind, altough it's more punk and raw sounding with vocals somewhere between Wavves' Nathan Williams and the guy from Mi Ami.
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Grass Widow is an all-girl band from San Francisco. They play some catchy post-punk.
I first noticed them on last year's Yeti 6 Comp, which means they managed to stand out among acts like The Clean, Blank Dogs, Crystal Stilts etc. I'd tell you to buy the new record but the label site says "We just ran out of the Grass Widow LP…"
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Stream two new tracks below, an untypical Jay Reatard jam and an I-don't-know-if-it's-typical-because-I-don't-really-listen-to-them (Sorry!) track by Thee Oh Sees. Altough I think it might be kinda typical. Also, I wonder if the name of that Jay's song is supposed to be some sort of reference or critique or whatever. Hah.

So we caught up with Patrick Flegel from Women a couple of nights ago at one of their shows and decided to ask him a couple of questions.
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"We're planning like a whole phase two of the band that would be totally different. We're planning on overhauling the whole operation."
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whoa

A new video for the song Monte Alban from Palms' interesting debut album, It's Midnight in Honolulu, directed by Brett Milspaw with Tina Tyrell. "A stream of images, drawn from a prism of fantasias and melting, Dali-like, over the sharp corners of this so-called reality." Yay.

"…Though various sorts of processed sounds work their way in and out of the picture, the band’s aesthetic is built on a basic foundation of guitars, drums and vocals. Talk Normal are clearly working within a dark, neo-now wave framework, yet there‘s some variety, too. They can sound both hyper and dirgey, calling to mind heat-soaked basement shows and cold moldy practice spaces alike."
Also, Marnie Stern named their previous release one of her favourites of 2008.
You can order the EP from their Myspace page.