Mikal Cronin :: Mikal Cronin

Considering Mikal Cronin's close association with the shred-happy Ty Segall, I was expecting some serious headbanger's on the former's self-titled debut on Chicago's Trouble In Mind Records. However, while guitars roar, that's merely a sideline distraction in Cronin's nuanced, thoughtful, and highly melodic debut. Songs like the wonderfully upbeat "Again and Again" sound like they were plucked straight out of the British invasion, recalling 1960s UK artists like The Kinks, The Beatles, and The Troggs. The very next track, the acoustic strummed "Hold On Me," sounds like a lost Zombies B-side with its crisp and airy vocal harmonies and ear-catching melody. The intimate and sparsely decorated "Hold On Me" by itself might be one of the better songs of 2011 and its whistled outro one of the better moments, inspiring imagery of a lone hero walking into the sunset in a grainy old spaghetti western.

But the record of course doesn't stop there: each of its 10 tracks are brilliant in their own right, bursting from start to finish with the raw energy of an artist that's clearly psyched to stretch out his creative legs on an LP for the first time. From the soaring opening Beach Boys-inspired harmony on "Is It Alright" to the closing homage to "Martha My Dear" in the killer toe-tapper "The Way Things Go," Cronin manages to pay proper tribute to his predecessors while keeping the mood fresh and the song's inarguably his own. Obviously, Cronin's a music fan at heart, and that love of listening and playing informs and radiates through every hook, bridge, and chorus. Cronin's debut long player is the best kind of album: one made by and for music fans.

Purchase the LP via Trouble In Mind.

Mikal Cronin - "Apathy" (from Mikal Cronin)
Mikal Cronin - "Again and Again" (from Mikal Cronin)

Mikal Cronin - "Hold On Me" (from Mikal Cronin)

Ryan Trott - "Baby Girl"

Ryan Trott of Family Trees—who last year released the fantastic Dream Talkin' 7" on Father / Daughter—finished recording a new solo album this past August called Wild Wonder (that's his dog Daisy adorning the cover). Trott is putting out the album digitally via his own web label Wild Wild Honey. Below, check out "Baby Girl," a short acoustic cut off the album that showcases Trott's sharp ear for vocal melody.

Purchase Wild Wonder on Bandcamp.

Ryan Trott - "Baby Girl" (from Wild Wonder)
Family Trees - "Dream Talkin'" (from Dream Talkin' 7")

Analog Edition Giveaway

In honor of Analog Edition's third release—Stone Darling's white vinyl pressed I Stopped Missing You Today 7"—we will be giving away two complete sets of our catalogue to loyal readers of Everybody Taste. This includes our Blake Mills 7", Breakfast In Fur 10", a copy of the Analog Edition Zine, and the new Stone Darling 7" (plus a kickass sticker of our logo). To enter, please use the buttons below to either 'Tweet' or 'Like' this post and then send an email to matt@analogedition.com with 'giveaway' in the subject line.

Update: Winners have been chosen. Thanks for participating and helping spread the word!

PUJOL :: Nasty, Brutish, and Short

As PUJOL, Nashville-based musician Daniel Pujol writes and records loud and undeniably catchy garage-born pop music. PUJOL has put out records on countless labels including JEFF The Brotherhood's Infinity Cat and Jack White's Third Man, and now continues that prolific trend on October 18th with a new EP for Saddle Creek titled Nasty, Brutish, and Short. There's hints of both the power-pop smarts of The Nerves and the sardonic recklessness of The Replacements here, which creates an irresistible and highly combustible concoction: blazing-hot honey-glazed hooks that feel as if they could implode and fall apart at any given moment. Every song here flys out of the gate as if propelled by rocket fuel, but particularly invigorating is the 1:40-long foot-stomper "Stuff," where Pujol choruses over roaring guitars: "I must be consistent with what I believe in / Or I live a lie." It's a straightforward and simple line, but it's also one that sticks. Pujol's music is fuzzed-out and brash, and if we're being honest, it just wouldn't feel right any other way.

The 7-track 18-minute EP is available digitally and on 10" colored vinyl. Pre-order here.

PUJOL - "Mayday" (from Nasty, Brutish, and Short)
PUJOL - "Stuff" (from Nasty, Brutish, and Short)

Jonathan Wilson - "Can We Really Party Today?"

We're huge fans of Jonathan Wilson over here at Everybody Taste. We even dedicated an entire mixtape to his work as both a solo musician and collaborator, the latter of which has included gigs with everyone from Dawes to Elvis Costello, Jenny Lewis, and The Jayhawks' Gary Louris. Now Wilson is finally getting his much-deserved turn in the spotlight with Gentle Spirit, his long-awaited second solo LP that's been talked about for what seems like ages (Tame Impala's Nick Allbrook called it one of the best albums he's ever heard back in May of 2010), and was finally released this past August via Bella Union.

Gentle Spirit, which features its own array of guests including Chris Robinson of the Black Crowes and Vetiver's Andy Cabic, is an absolute stunner. At turns psychedelic, jammy, poppy, sun-baked, and singer-songwriter driven, Wilson's record plays like a wise old teacher's masterfully performed history of Californian rock and roll. Yet, because Wilson's song structures are so unique and the instrumentals so dynamic, these songs never once feel rehashed, but rather surprisingly fresh. Gentle Spirit is truly an immersive and lingering listening experience. You hit play and the next moment, like a heavy fog, your covered in a wash of warmly recorded analog tones, walking barefoot through the middle of the dessert, splashing in the cold surf, and surrounded by the hills of Laurel Canyon. These songs aren't built for the moment—this is an anytime, anyplace kind of record.

Every song here is a favorite, but in terms of accessibility, "Can We Really Party Today?" is the track I always turn to as an introduction to Wilson. What starts out as a sparse introspective acoustic ditty builds into something else entirely at 4:52, where a rush of organ, handclaps, and a thumping bass crash over the unsuspecting listener in a wave of euphoria. It's the kind of musical moment that hits your right in the gut, and may even raise a few hairs—it's that good. (Photo by Lauren Ward)

Buy Gentle Spirit digitally or on vinyl from Bella Union.

Jonathan Wilson - "Can We Really Party Today?" (from Gentle Spirit)

Feist - "Lover's Spit" (BSS cover)

"Lover's Spit" first appeared back on Broken Social Scene's second album, You Forgot It In People, in 2002. Written and originally sung by founding-member Kevin Drew, the song's got several memorable and sharply visceral lines that have seemingly been permanently imprinted on my brain over the years, like "All these people drinking lover's spit," and "You know it's time, that we grow old and do some shit." Simple, yes, but also classic. In the 2004 B-sides compilation, Bee Hives, the song reappears with Leslie Feist on vocals. That same year, Feist stopped by the Black Sessions broadcast by Radio France and recorded this sparse performance. While it doesn't have the emotional grandiosity of the original, Feist's blunt and tender voice paired with her clean electrified guitar give the song a quiet and disarmingly determined weight.

Feist - "Lover's Spit" (Broken Social Scene cover)

And yes, everybody's favorite Canadian songstress (after Joni Mitchell, of course), has a new album out, Metals, in less than two weeks on October 4th. Listen to a track from the LP below.

How Come You Never Go There by Feist

Coke Weed: Garage Psychedelia from Maine

Bar Harbor, Maine's Coke Weed—who are apparently good buddies with The Walkmen— recently released their first full-length, the aptly titled Coke Weed Volume 1. While Coke Weed takes much of its musical inspiration from 1960s counterculture and rock & roll, it comes across as a sincere and authentic sound thanks in large part to the rawness of the production and recordings. Takes here are loose, jangly, and even unpredictable. The vocals in particular sound like they were all recorded in long single takes—no overdubs or cut and pasting—and that lends a certain imperfect charm to each track. The band describes their sound as psychedelic art garage, and that's not a bad fit, as along with the rawness there's an experimental almost free-form construction to songs. While "Not My Old Man" sounds like a Chan Marshall-led Velvet Underground roaring through soundcheck, "The Frizz" plays like the acid-tongued duet Johnny and June never recorded.

You can snag Coke Weed's entire album for free here.

Coke Weed - "Not My Old Man" (from Volume 1)
Coke Weed - "The Frizz" (from Volume 1)

Video: Allah-Las - "Long Journey"

Simply put, Allah-Las are one of the best bands going right now, and their "Catamaran" 7"—produced by San Francisco's vintage R&B purveyor Nick Waterhouse and released via his Pres Records—might just be the best 45 to come out in 2011. These California surfers eschew the current musical landscape in favor of the decidedly warmer analog glow of 1950s and 60s rock and roll: specifically the kind played in a garage with gritty amplified guitars, grooving bass lines, rawly recorded vocals, and foot-stomping, hip-twisting percussion. "Long Journey," the B-side to "Catamaran," gets the music video treatment below via what looks like home-recorded footage of the band road-tripping about in their awesomely green van.

Watch the video after the jump.

Review: Moss of Aura :: Wading

Instrumental music rarely makes a blip on my radar. Sure, I spin the occasional jazz record—the good stuff, classic musicians like Jimmy Smith, Ahmad Jamal, and Miles Davis—but I can't remember the last contemporary instrumental album I played from start to finish. Perhaps that's why I'm surprised how head-over-heels I am for synth maestro Gerrit Welmers' Moss of Aura LP Wading: there's no lyrics, no singing, just one dude playing an assortment of keyboards, synths, and drum machines—and it's one of the most captivating listening experiences I've had all year.

The Spanish Candles - "The Story of My Wife"

Here's a little pepper for your paprikash: "The Story of My Wife" by fiery riff-punk up-and-comers The Spanish Candles. The track is a deliriously fast dance of shredded guitar lines, shout-sung vocals, and snappy percussion that race off into oblivion like a greased-up freight train down a mountainside. You can snag the Nashville trio's 2010 EP On Camels from Rad Frnds via Bandcamp.

The Spanish Candles - "The Story of My Wife" (from On Camels EP)

Twin Sister - "Stop"

Twin Sister's capacity for unearthing vintage and occasionally cheesy tones and reworking them into compelling contemporary pop frameworks is incredible. This is a band that clearly belongs in the studio. Sure, the band's songwriting is ace, but it's their creative sonic palette that really separates and elevates Twin Sister's music into real fad-free unstuck-from-time originality. "Stop," one of the more inviting and instantly accessible cuts off the band's debut LP In Heaven, features guitarist Eric Cardona taking a turn on lead vocals with Andrea Estella providing harmony over it's killer chorus. But what really stands out here is the sincere soft-rock quality of the instrumentation: emotive and melodramatic strings, pillowy keyboards, silky smooth guitar lines. Yet these tones never once feel contrived or out of place. While fellow soft-rock purveyors like Washed Out tend to blend their different instruments into one mass of sound with fistfuls of reverb and echo, every melodic line and synth-produced sheen in "Stop" is as clear as a perfectly focused photograph. Now that's refreshing.

Twin - "Sister" (from In Heaven)


Stream the entirety of In Heaven—out 9/27—after the jump.

Bleached DJ Set on Aquarium Drunkard's Sirius XMU Show

You know writer's block? I consider listening to music a creative endeavor and, yes, sometimes I get stopped up: stuck in the same overplayed playlists, the same favorite artists, the same stacks of vinyl. Sometimes I need a spark to inspire my listening. Jennifer Clavin of Los Angeles band Bleached—who I've raved about here and here—packed fistfuls of dynamite into my eardrums during the second half of Justin Gage's always classy Aquarium Drunkard show on Sirius XMU Friday with hard-hitting cuts by some of my all-time favorites: The Exploding Hearts, The Misfits, Johnny Thunders. Clavin also introduced me to a few new gems, like the all kinds of perfect punk number "Bikeage" by Descendents, the experimental pop of "Godstar" by Psychic TV, and "Give Me Some Time," a lesser known track from power-pop purveyors The Nerves. Clavin's playlist acted as a musical laxative of sorts, expunging all the self-conscious lo-fi music I've been listening to lately down into the netherworld and replacing it with foot-stomping classics. Now it's time for you to expunge your demons: download a taste* of the set below.

The Walkmen - "Agoraphobia" (Deerhunter)

In London last winter for Rockfeedback, The Walkmen played a few cuts from their stunning 2010 LP Lisbon along with a cover of "Agoraphobia," a track off Deerhunter's 2008 album Microcastle. Like much of The Walkmen's recent output, it's a sparsely decorated performance that makes all the difference in what's not played—those open spaces where it's just the groove, and as a listener, you're just along for the ride.

The Walkmen - "Agoraphobia" (Deerhunter cover)

Alabama Shakes - S/T EP

The Alabama Shakes—formerly the Shakes, whom I wrote about back in early August—released their debut EP on Tuesday. Fans of sweaty heart-on-the-sleeve soul music and southern-fried rock will find a wealth of musical riches here from the Brittany Howard-led Athens, Alabama group. While bands regularly channel 1960s soul music—here specifically, the Stax Records sound—few do it with the raw, hard-edged, and nearly reckless sincerity heard in this EP. And while Howard's resonant soul-stirring vocals are clearly the difference-maker here, the Alabama Shakes fire on all cylinders: from the riff- and hook-heavy guitar work to the steady bass grooves and splashy drums, this is a dynamite young quartet on the rise.

Pick up the Alabama Shakes debut EP via Bandcamp.

Braids - "Peach Wedding" / Purity Ring - "Belispeak"

On October 10th, two of 2011's breakout acts will be releasing a split 7" under the Fat Possum umbrella. On one side, you've got the ghost-voiced future-pop of Purity Ring, who've already dropped one of the best tracks of 2011 in "Ungirthed." While "Belispeak" adds little new to the duo's arsenal of sound, it's nevertheless another consistent and provocative entry in the group's small but promising collection of singles. On the flip side, Braids—the young Canadian act behind hypnotic heartbreaker Native Speaker— drop another bit of their signature ambient, slow-burning, and emotive pop music in "Peach Wedding." "Peach Wedding," already a signature of the band's live set, captures Braids in top form: an otherworldly cocktail of sounds lush, vibrant, and intensely captivating.

Pre-order the 7" at Fat Possum.

Purity Ring - "Belispeak" (from Split 7")
Braids - "Peach Wedding" (from Split 7")

Scenes That Pop :: Bottle Rocket :: The Rolling Stones - "2000 Man"

Today, I'm introducing a new series: 'Scenes That Pop,' where Everybody Taste highlights moments in cinema where pop music and film seemingly converge into one perfect art form.

Anthony: "Dignan, you know what's going to happen if you go back there."
Dignan: "No, I don't. They'll never catch me, man… because I'm fucking innocent."

The penultimate scene in Wes Anderson's 1996 debut film Bottle Rocket is soundtracked by "2000 Man," a track taken from The Rolling Stones' divisive 1967 psychedelic outing, Their Satanic Majesties Request. As the Stones only self-produced record, critics often dismiss the LP's experimental leanings as drug-fueled self-indulgence. However, if you stick The Rolling Stones in a studio for 8 months—especially a young almost in their prime version—the band will inevitably churn out a few memorable and perhaps even classic songs. "She's A Rainbow" was one. And "2000 Man" was another. With its off-kilter backbone of drumming, acoustic picked verse, and incredible organ-blasted shifts in mood and tempo, "2000 Man" is as unpredictable a track as it is a wildly creative and exciting one. In other words, it's the perfect fit for Dignan's (played by Owen Wilson) haphazard, erratic, and inevitably doomed attempt at post-robbery escape.

New Release Day :: Go Buy Vinyl

A handful of the strongest records of 2011 were all released simultaneously this morning, including Neon Indian's staggering synth opus Era Extraña, St. Vincent's dark masterpiece Strange Mercy, and Girls' highly touted and ambitious Father, Son, Holy Ghost. Along with that holy Trinity, we've got promising new LPs by The Drums, Blitzen Trapper, Mates of State, Holiday Shores, Wild Flag, and an EP by Toro Y Moi. If you collect vinyl, please head out to and support your local record shop today (our favorite DC stores: Crooked Beat, Red Onion Records, and Som Records). If you aren't in the vinyl game, digital retailers like iTunes and Amazon have you covered, the latter of which has Strange Mercy for only $3.99.

After the jump, watch the two best music videos of the year courtesy of the wildly creative minds of Neon Indian and St. Vincent.

Glass Candy :: Warm In The Winter 12"

Whether it's with the Chromatics, Desire, or Glass Candy, Portland producer Johnny Jewel crafts the most shimmering and effervescent of disco jams. Unlike the majority of contemporary electronic-centered artists, he also does it without the help of a computer: this thoughtful, intricate, and highly danceable funk is played by hand on a range of vintage drum machines and keyboards that date back to the 1970s. Even before Ida No's vocals kick in on these two new Glass Candy tracks, Jewel's cascading synth-dripped melodies and ominous growls of bass have my ears glued to the speakers with a compelling magnetic force. Clearly, Johnny Jewel was put on this planet to do one thing: play music.

Look out for the Warm In The Winter 12" in the Italians Do It Better store. It's also available digitally now on iTunes—just click on the iTunes icon below.

Glass Candy - "Beautiful Object" (from Warm In The Winter 12")

Glass Candy - "Warm In The Winter" (from Warm In The Winter 12")

The Walkmen channel Johnny Cash for KEXP

The Walkmen recently played a handful of songs they learned from Johnny Cash over on Seattle's KEXP radio station. Particularly fantastic are the band's renditions of "Darlin' Companion"—a Lovin' Spoonful original and live favorite of Cash's—and "Wanted Man"—a song Cash wrote with Bob Dylan in Nashville in 1969. Listen to the two covers below, then head over to One Thirty BPM to hear the rest of the Walkmen's set.


The Walkmen - "Darlin' Companion" (Live on KEXP)
The Walkmen - "Wanted Man" (Live on KEXP)

After the jump, watch Cash play "Darlin' Companion" and "Wanted Man" live at San Quentin State Prison.

Blouse - "Videotapes"

Portland band Blouse were picked up by Brooklyn label Captured Tracks after posting just two demos to their Bandcamp page. Not bad, right? To date, the woozy electronic warehouse-based group has released two singles: the "Into Black" 7" on Captured Tracks in March and the "Shadow" 7" on Sub Pop back in May. Blouse is now slated to put out its debut LP on November 1st—the Stumptown trio's third release of 2011 and second on Captured Tracks. We have the first taste of that long player in the beautifully hazy, 80s-colored, bass-thumping gem "Videotapes." If the band's string of releases are any indicator, it appears Blouse is on one hell of a creative roll. Get caught up with the goods below. (via)

Blouse - "Videotapes" (from Blouse)
Blouse - "Into Black" (from Into Black 7")
Blouse - "Shadow" (from Shadow 7")

Forest Fire - "Mtns Are Mtns"

Forest Fire have released a second song from their forthcoming LP Staring At The X, due out on October 18th via FatCat, and it's a real beaut. "Mtns Are Mtns" commences with emotive and intimate vocals over a strummed acoustic guitar—standard singer/songwriter fare—but then opens up with brightly colored flashes of male/female harmony, a couple chords from a grand piano, colossal airplane engine-recalling guitar buzz, and a fantastic saxophone solo. Speaking of saxophones, are than excess of sax players in Manhattan right now? As it feels like I've heard more sax solos this year than I have in the last ten. Not that I'm complaining.

Forest Fire - "Mtns Are Mtns" (from Staring At The X)
Forest Fire - "Future Shadows" (from Staring At The X)

Those Darlins to release new 7"

Back in April I reviewed Those Darlins' Screws Get Loose and wrote: "While the songs on Screws Get Loose are all colored with the boozy and tattered astringency of time spent on the road, the mood is never weary but rather brazen and unrelenting. Those Darlins are a band that's hungry for more, whether it's success or simply kicking ass, drinking beer, and shredding guitar. From the first wail of album opener and title-track 'Screws Get Loose,' it's clear this is a band that one day may be, if not already, truly great." And now that rip-roaring title track gets the 7" treatment via an all new extended version, which will be pressed and paired with the Nikki Darlin sung "Prank Call"—a fiery and fast-talking gem leftover from the LP's studio sessions.

After the jump, watch Those Darlins play "Prank Call" live along with the excellent animated video for "Red Light Love."

T. Rex - "Baby Boomerang"

Is there a better label than Oxford, Mississippi's Fat Possum right now? I'm not so sure. Aside from their string of 2011 homeruns—Tennis, Yuck, Youth Lagoon, Sonny & The Sunsets, Unknown Mortal Orchestra—the one-time blues-centric label has also been excelling in the reissue game, putting much of T. Rex's catalogue back out on vinyl. As a bonafide Marc Bolan junkie, I've been diving into these reissues headfirst, though none is more satisfying than Bolan's 1972 romp The Slider. Though The Slider followed the more iconic Electric Warrior, the former was T. Rex's most successful record State-side and featured a more consistent arsenal of Bolan's signature groove-heavy, hip-shaking, and electric guitar-drenched glam rock. It's been a great year for Bolan fans, thanks to Fat Possum and Ty Segall's long sold-out raucous and ramshackle lo-fi covers album, Ty Rex.

If you're in the vinyl game, head over to Fat Possum for the goods.

T. Rex - "Baby Boomerang" (from The Slider)
Ty Segall - "The Slider" (from Ty Rex)

Video: Wye Oak - "Holy Holy"

Baltimore's Wye Oak released what may be their best LP to date in this year's Civilian. None of the records' 10 tracks are particularly immediate nor even resemble traditional pop structures. Civilian is instead a true long player: a lingering record thats best moments are uncovered with time, repeated listens, and just the right atmosphere. Recently, Jenn Wasner and Andy Stack's subtly building cathartic rock has proven its worth in the visual world with an especially moving spot soundtracking the zombie-infested and apocalyptic world of The Walking Dead. This week, we get another visual pairing with a video for the band's "Holy Holy," here in the form of a straight-faced ride on a boardwalk's seaside roller coasters. So what have we learned? Next time you see a zombie or ride a roller coaster, make sure to throw on Civilian.

Watch the video after the jump.

Selebrities - "Surrounded By You"

Brooklyn's Selebrities channel a bit of The Go-Go's 80s spunk on "Surrounded By You," a B-side and self-described "summer jam" taken from the band's May-released LP Delusions. While Selebrities often bask in a New Wave menagerie of twinkling synths and Factory Records-inspired dance instrumentation, "Surrounded By You" is more of a straight guitar, drum, and vocal sound—and it's all the more refreshing for its simplicity. A blissful concoction and absolute charmer that gets better with each repeated listen. (via)

Selebrities - "Surrounded By You" (from B-Sides)

Selebrities - "Sunset" (from Delusions)

White Denim :: Live At Third Man 12"

If there was ever a band and album that deserved the live treatment, it's White Denim and their jam-packed jazz-rock fusion record D. Thankfully, Jack White and his consistently tasteful Third Man Records imprint are ahead of the curve here. The Austin band cut 9 live tracks from D along with "Shake Shake Shake" and "Say What You Want" straight from tape to acetate with White as producer. There's no digital version of these recordings, so if you want to get your fix, head over to Third Man to purchase a piece of 12" vinyl, the first 300 of which will be colored in black and blue. If you need convincing, whet your palette with a taste of the band's fiery and dynamic live sound below. (via)

White Denim - "At The Farm" (Live at The Ghost Room)
White Denim - "Street Joy" (Live at Sirius XMU)

Neon Indian - "Hex Girlfriend" & "Arcade Blues"

Two more tracks have surfaced from analog synthesizer guru Alan Palomo's newest Neon Indian LP, Era Extraña. With the driving buzzsaw fuzz and swirly Atari 2600-recalling blips of "Hex Girlfriend" and "Arcade Blues," Palomo again proves his distinctive ability to craft organic and hook-laden pop music out of the mechanical world of electronic frequencies and signals. The ever-dedicated Palomo also helped create his own mini analog synthesizer with Austin-based manufacturers Bleep Labs called the PAL198X, which you can preview in an acid-washed instructional video below.

Neon Indian - "Hex Girlfriend" (from Era Extraña)

Neon Indian - "Arcade Blues" (from Era Extraña)


Watch Neon Indian's PAL198X instructional video after the jump.

JEFF The Brotherhood - "Diamond Way" (Live)

JEFF The Brotherhood recently recorded a live set over at Sirius XMU. You can catch the whole performance the next time it airs via a free trial. Or below, you can download a live bongo and flanger-infused cut of the Nashville duo's "Diamond Way." In other news, brothers Orrall will be releasing a single produced by Jack White in October. The single, recorded in White's home recording studio, will be released as part of Third Man Records' Blue Series and include the 6 and 1/2 minute "Whatever I Want" on the A-side and a cover of Tiger B. Smith's "Everything I Need" on the B-side. This will be JEFF The Brotherhood's third release over at Third Man, following their live 12" and contribution to Insane Clown Posse's new 7".

JEFF The Brotherhood - "Diamond Way" (Live on Sirius XMU)

White Life: Tonight at the Velvet Lounge

One of our favorite new bands White Life plays in DC tonight at the Velvet Lounge. However, if you're not in DC, you can still watch the show via a live Ustream feed here. The festivities kick off at 9 with White Life taking the stage at 11. Tickets are just $8. See ya there.

White Life - "I Want Love" (from White Life)

Ski Lodge - "I Would Die To Be"

Ski Lodge is the project of multi-instrumentalist Andrew Marr, born not on a snowy mountain resort, but by the ocean side in West Palm, Florida. While Marr's heavily melodic and chord-free guitar play on "I Would Die To Be" recalls the style employed by the Beach Fossils, Marr's vocals take a more melodramatic and heart-on-the-sleeve turn that hint at years of late nights listening to The Smiths. Most importantly though, Ski Lodge delivers the hooks: light, feathery, and catchy as hell.

The EP is out September 13th on Dovecote Records.

Ski Lodge - "I Would Die To Be" (from Ski Lodge)