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Featured Artist: Vampire Weekend

Vampire Weekend aren’t your average indie rock band.  This New York City quartet’s songs are vibrant, fun, and deceivingly complex. 
It’s impossible to describe their style in a few simple adjectives, or at least we just didn’t want to try.  But, according to them their music is best described as “Upper West Side Soweto,” whatever that […]

Featured Artist: White Denim

White Denim, a trio from Austin, Texas almost never happened.  I know what you’re thinking.  If you’ve ever seen VH1’s Behind the Music then you, of course know, that any good band ‘almost never happened.’  But seriously.
Frontman, James Petralli, was a baseball player and nearly followed the rest of his family into a professional baseball […]

Featured Artist: Sea Wolf

You’ve probably already heard of Sea Wolf, and if you haven’t, well then shame on  you.
Sea Wolf is the Jack London inspired moniker of Alex Church, a native Californian drawing on local literary legends like London and Steinbeck to create truly unique music. 
   Church studied film at NYU, then moved to Los Angeles and formed the band Irving in 1998.  He soon […]

Black Mountain: Brilliant Interpreters, or Blatant Plaigiarists?

Black Mountain is a Vancouver band garnering much attention from their 2005 eponymous debut and wowing audiences while opening up for Coldplay.  Borrowing from a lost generation of psychadelia, driving guitar-rock, and Pink Floyd-esque exploration, Black Mountain seems to be reviving sentiments of the past while opening a window to the future.  There are some out there, however, that are refusing […]

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