The Cure The Lovecats Download Friday I’m in Love: A Valentine’s Day Mix! Featuring Toro y Moi, Javelin, Diamond Rings, Death Cab For Cutie, Craft Spells, Metronomy, and a whole lot more. Download here . Pixies/Marvin Gaye - Get It On My Mind Metronomy - A Thing For Me (Breakbot Remix) Lemonade - Lifted (Le Chev Reunion Tour Remix) Daft Punk - [...]

Hailing from California, Craft Spells create addictive and upbeat pop tracks, perfectly engineered for warm, relaxing summer days. New single After The Moment is no exception, being inexplicably simple but effective, allowing the vocals to lull the listener into a hypnotic trance. At heart it's a love song, yet it provides much more, danceable and energetic, it's blissful melody is a joy to behold. B-Side Love Well Spent continues in a similar vein, repetitive synths and combined female (courtesy of Emily Reo) and male vocals add an extra dimension to the track. [...]

Craft Spells — Love Well Spent (Feat. Emily Reo) This breezy, New Order-indebted cut is the b-side to Craft Spells ’ After the Moment 7” (out now on Captured Tracks ). Their debut LP, Idle Labor , is set to drop March 1. [ mp3 ]

Craft Spells - Party Talk ( buy ) This is dreamy bliss through reverb and wordless harmonies. Similar in production to recently highlighted Therapies Son, and equally uplifting. This is softening the blow still felt from LCD's Saturday announcement.

Craft Spells - "After The Moment" The Beach Boys are a heavy influence, they're from Seattle and sound something like Wild Nothing and The Radio Dept. with an extra layer of haziness. They released the above single a few weeks ago, signed to Captured Tracks , Craft Spells 's album is due out March 29, 2011. And one of their singles from last summer - "Party Talk"

Craft Spells - "After The Moment" The Beach Boys are a heavy influence, they're from Seattle and sound something like Wild Nothing and The Radio Dept. with an extra layer of haziness. They released the above single a few weeks ago, signed to Captured Tracks , Craft Spells 's album is due out March 29, 2011. And one of their singles from last summer - "Party Talk"

Craft Spells have been on constant rotation this week. I didn't know much about the band till I looked up them up and found out they're Stockton, CA, a city that between San Francisco and Sacramento for those who don't know. They're sign to Brooklyn's Capture Tracks and just released a single called 'A Moment With You'. In the middle of last year they also released a collaborative sound with Emily Reo, whom featured before on LMN. Craft Spells debut album 'Idle Labor' is due out this and hopefully they'll play a set [...]
Craft Spells have been on constant rotation this week. I didn't know much about the band till I looked up them up and found out they're Stockton, CA, a city that between San Francisco and Sacramento for those who don't know. They're sign to Brooklyn's Capture Tracks and just released a single called 'A Moment With You'. In the middle of last year they also released a collaborative sound with Emily Reo, whom featured before on LMN. Craft Spells debut album 'Idle Labor' is due out this and hopefully they'll play a set [...]

it is cold and gray and dead and rainy...but you know, it still sparkles depending on yer outlook. this month i decided to focus my mix on a few bands from the pacific northwest, a few having recently played or coming to play seattle next month, a few songs from my past that all this new awesome music reminds me of, and one song that just plain reminds me of how boring it is to be depressed all the time. enough with killin' that vibe; take yer vitamin d dammit , and enjoy the music! gorgeous [...]

Hailing from Stockton (no, not the Teesside town), California, Craft Spells are the brainchild of Justin Vallesteros, with Frankie Soto, Jack Smith and Anna Luxx Ryon completeing the line up. Read More >>

So I live in LA and drive a lot. I accidentally left the light on in my car and killed the battery. When I had my car jumped, my ipod player stopped working. I have yet to fix it. My solution has been to pretend like it’s 1994 and burn cd’s for my car. I randomly threw this mix together, and I have to say…it’s kind of genius. Don’t believe me? Download that ish here , and see for yourself. Track list below. Holler. Bury [...]

Tweet Mixtape: Surveying the Indie Pop Renaissance (Podcast #241) We love psych rock, garage, folk rock, singer-songwriter stuff, and a variety of other musical genres here at The Bay Bridged, but our first love was, and will forever be, indie pop. From the jangly to the synthy, an uber-catchy, clever pop song is something to be treasured. After what felt like a few slightly lean years for the genre (from our perspective, anyway), we're now in the midst of a real fertile [...]
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As we move back to regular life after FMLY FEST and the No Pants Tour, Caleb of Truman Peyote and Breakfast of Champs joined us on Public Education to share what he's been jamming on. Public Education is on Indie 1031 every Sunday from 6-8PM PST. Grab the whole show here ! Ty Segall - Don't Talk to Me Traps, PS - Prove It To You. Bug Eyes - Rent Money Earl Sweatshirt - Couch [...]

Craft Spells Party Talk I’m diggin’ these guys out of Stockon, California. They’ve got a synthy Crystal Stilts things going on. Craft Spells ’ first LP, Idle Labor , is out 3/1 via Captured Tracks . Captured Tracks Bio: “In the cold and dreary winter of 2009, alone in his bedroom and hidden from the darkness of the world outside Justin Paul Vallesteros had begun working on something [...]

The January 2011 mix is dedicated to the ridiculously awesome Laser Kittens mural that once graced Divisadero Street in San Francisco. That mural was the game. So with any luck this mix will sound somewhat as awesome as the picture above looks with lots of laser-like sounds, pouncing kittens, and a dash of urban grittiness. [...]

Starfucker - "Bury Us Alive" (from Reptilians ) Foster The People - "Helena Beat" (from Pumped Up Kicks ) Craft Spells - "After The Moment" (from Captured Tracks ) Tennis - "Seafarer" (from Cape Dory ) Kurt Vile - "Jesus Fever" (from Smoke Ring For My Halo ) Telekinesis - "Car Crash" (from 12 Desperate Straight Lines ) [...]

I call this a weekly roundup, but that's not really what it is. I'm just getting back in the swing of things and hopefully, today starts the triumphant return of my weekly "Radio Dick" posts, which used to cap off the week that was, honing in on all sorts of musings and tracks I was digging throughout the preceding seven days. I'm not so certain that's an easy task to pick back up on, but I've had my ears to the stereo a bit more this week, and that feels pretty good. Today includes some new things [...]
California indie-pop duo Craft Spells are putting the finishing touches on their debut LP, Idle Labor , set to drop March 1st on Captured Tracks . Until then, they've got a new single, "After The Moment," coming January 18th. Take a listen below and let us know what you think. [via Pitchfork ] [...]

Tweet Craft Spells - "After the Moment" From the fertile Stockton indie scene - okay, all jokes aside, what percentage of write-ups about Craft Spells mention the one other band that indie music fans know came from California's Sunrise Seaport? For serious Stockton heads, there's a Facebook group dedicated to discussing Stockton music memories . For the rest of us, there's Justin Vallesteros, whose latest single ( via Pitchfork ) bonds its jangly guitar to [...]