Beach Pigs are a quartet of melodic noise popsters out of Auckland, New Zealand who have been making waves with their early single releases and their self-titled EP . You can order their releases direct from their label, the most excellent Arch Hill Recordings . Dahnu Graham:Vocals Daniel Kerr: Guitar Suren Unka: Drums Billy Robertson:Bass Guitar. Continue reading ds recommends: Beach Pigs
Sydney duo Valar have been making a name for themselves with their dreamy, hypnotic indietronica. If you are in Sydney you can catch them at the Paddington Uniting Church this Thursday but in the meantime check out a live in studio video of them performing Anoesis and listen/buy last year’s The Belly of the Whale and other releases over at Bandcamp. Continue reading ds recommends: Valar
Adelaide’s Bad//Dreems are making moves of the dark, twisting, post pop and jangling nostalgic kind. They’ve hooked up with the sympathetic production ears of Johnny Mackay and Jack Farley (Twerps, Beaches, Love of Diagrams, Bitch Prefect, Scott and Charlene’s Wedding etc) for their debut single Chills which is due out March 1st. They’re also venturing interstate for a few shows, catch em if you can. Tour Dates … Continue reading ds recommends: Bad//Dreems
Here are some dark swirling swaggering sounds coming out of Miami, FL. Psych rock, garage pop/ rock etc. These guys have a nice angle on the sounds of yesteryear all rolled up into one psych stew. Grab their stuff over at lildaggers.bandcamp.com and check them on FB. Continue reading ds recommends: Lil Daggers…
Pure X hail from Austin, Texas check out the track Twisted Mirror from their debut album Pleasure due out July 5th on Acephale Records . Think slow, jammy, druggy, spaced out jams that meander and rattle. They kinda feel like Kurt Vile on downers but with some fantastic melodies sparkling beneath the foggy gauze of sound. Continue reading ds recommends… Pure X
Want some crunchy metallic psych pop? Tweak Bird do it so well with their 60s vocals reminding me of Red Kross with a great heavy sludge of rock heaving away underneath. Caleb and Ashton Bird are the band (guitar/drums) and they released their 2nd and self-titled album in 2010 (their 1st was Reservations) on Volcom featuring the production work of Dale Crover (Melvins). Check … Continue reading ds recommends… Tweak Bird
Melbourne’s Iowa sound great… heavy, chunky distorted guitars that come in waves like Dinosaur Jr and Crazy Horse soaked in shoegaze. Indecipherable vocals moan and yearn with just the right amount of angst and ache and you get that warm sense of familiarity comforting and invigorating your ears. They have a new red 7″ of Lose Yourself/Reasons out now and you can order it or … Continue reading ds recommends… Iowa
French trio Prismo Perfect sound decidedly un-French with their noisy pop sound that threatens to at first be yet another electronic bore before the guitars crash in all shoegazey under the shouty, exuberant indie vocals. You can download their EP Out of Nowhere for free below while watching the cuddly video for Wired Feelings. FREE EP DOWNLOAD Continue reading DS recommends: Prismo Perfect
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