The first single off San Francisco band My First Earthquake’s debut album is Cool In The Cool Way and it’s about as catchy a song as you’ll ever likely to hear. Imagine if Kim and Kelley Deal folded the Breeders into the Pixies. Got it? Well, here it is.
Telekinesis / Coast of Carolina I like to imagine this is what Death Cab For Cutie would sound like if they used more power chords and rocked out more often. Michael Lerner’s voice is eerily reminiscent of Ben Gibbard’s. Maybe Jimmy Tamborello can enlist him for the next Postal Service album.
There is nothing ordinary about Seattle (by way of Port Angeles, WA) based classic rock quartet The Lonely H. And there is nothing ordinary about their new release, Concrete Class. Following up their 2006 debut, Kick Upstairs, and 2007’s Hair, The Lonely H’s Concrete Class reels with the rawness of Bob Seger’s blue collar howl and rolls with the purity of a Tequila Sunrise.
Jenny Lewis / Acid Tongue A modern classic. It’s a simple, traditionally influenced ballad, delivered with bittersweet melancholy. A tale of starry-eyed love and growth, it sends shivers down my spine every time. When the last chorus hits, accented by a cathedral of harmonizing voices, the line, ‘It just made me tired’, makes me feel both tired and rejuvenated simultaneously. Oh, sweet contradiction. [Mark]
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