My apologies: these songs have been kicking around in my head for a lot longer than I meant for them to. Not entirely my fault; my headphones went tits-up two weeks ago and without them my blogging ritual (relentless repeat during morning and evening walking commute, shorthand texts to myself on woefully out-of-date cell phone, [Read Full Post...]

On Land If You Want It (You Got It) One of my Super Music Friends over at Miles of Music recently asked me if I had anything from TV Girl . I didn't, but after looking, finding, and listening, I was glad that I did. This unsigned duo from San Diego puts together some nice, sunny pop. At the moment, all there is is a 4-track self-titled KEEP READING »

Trung Ngo and Brad Petering decided to record some stuff. And what was the result? I've never been to San Diego , but I think that this is what the summer breeze playing with your hair feels like there. Carelessness, nihilism and youth! Download the whole EP for free! Free Mp3s: TV Girl - TV Girl EP "Give me some advice and I'll tell you where to stick it!" And TV Girl show as [...]

High Fives all around - Hands @ The Echoplex (photo by Oliver Walker) We just got sent a batch of pics from Thursday night's RUMBLE: LOS ANGELES @ The Echoplex from Oliver Walker and we had to share a few of our favorites. We also wanted to take another opportunity to thank not just HANDS, TV GIRL and Rumble February tour band LETTING UP DESPITE GREAT FAULTS , but to all the bands and DJ's that played last week in all the cities. Another thanks goes to Liz and [...]

1 Evenings - Babe [ bandcamp ] 2 TV Girl - On Land [ bandcamp ] 3 Tashaki Miyaki - somethin is better than nothin [ bandcamp ] 4 Fear of Men - Phantom Limb [ bandcamp ] 5 Vivian Girls - I Heard You Say [...]

It seems were rather late on TV Girl, so first up apologies there, but I'm sure their still fresh enough to please all our readers so on we go with the post. Read More >>
Feb 12, 2011, 11:11am
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Consider this the last boarding call for those who haven’t yet fallen in love with the wonky brilliance of TV Girl.

THE RUMBLE: SAN DIEGO TONIGHT @ BAR PINK - FREE Featuring TV Girl, Dirty Gold, Letting Up Despite Great Faults and DJ Corey Casey The Rumble has made it's way down the coast from Seattle on Monday night through Los Angeles Thursday night and now pulls into port in San Diego tonight at BAR PINK in North Park for night 5. San Diego is well represented by two of the latest 'next big things' from SD in TV GIRL and DIRTY [...]

NEW HOME - NEW PARTNERS - 2011 BRINGS THE RUMBLE: LOS ANGELES TO THE ECHOPLEX TONIGHT Featuring Hands, Letting Up Despite Great Faults, TV Girl + DJ's Rollo & Grady & LLDope - FREE! Night #4 of Rumble week continues but this time on our home turf, which is now a new playground - Echo Park - as we kickoff our new location at The Echoplex . We pushed East side to be closer to our buds at ORIGAMI VINYL and to eat [...]

MP3: TV Girl - "If You Want It" MP3: Dirty Gold - "California Sunrise" MP3: Letting Up Despite Great Faults - "In Steps" San Diego's TV Girl are new to the music scene, but they're already getting a lot of press. Aside from generating local buzz, the lo-fi rockers recently caught the ears of Pitchfork, [...] Follow Owl and Bear on Facebook and Twitter for contests, MP3s, and links that don't make it onto the blog.

The Rumble Echoplex Thursday, February 10th TV Girl, Hands, and Letting Up Despite Great Faults TV Girl - On Land We are DJ'ing throughout the night with the legendary DJ LL Dope. Come on by, admission is FREE . Tweet

This Saturday night I'll be heading out to Bar Pink for my first ever 'Rumble' show featuring an incredible lineup that includes TV Girl , Dirty Gold and Letting Up Despite Great Faults . I've been listening to TV Girl for sometime now, but I missed their debut show at the Casbah, so I'm excited for this one. It's a free show, so come out if you're in the area. I've seen some of my favorite, unexpected shows at Bar Pink- they always have really good local bands playing on Weekends, and [...]

It is with great trepidation, and perhaps one raised eyebrow, that I share the music of San Diego's Trung Ngo and Brad Petering, a/k/a TV Girl — and not because chillwave and its assorted low-fi infections have become a pox on the land. On the duo's first EP, they sample appropriate steal Todd Rundgren's "Hello It's Me," and if you're going to tread on that hallowed ground, you might want to try a little reverence, or at least more adroitness. The EP has a couple chugging numbers, "I Don't Care" and the [...]

THE RUMBLE: LOS ANGELES returns in 2011 in a new home - THE ECHOPLEX starting next Thursday night!! After 2+ years at our very comfortable home at 3 Clubs - a venue we'll forever love and visit and our local - we're moving further East to Echo Park to be closer to one of our latest new additions to the LA family - ORIGAMI VINYL . On February 10th we'll kick things off downstairs with 3 acts we're very proud to be supporting in HANDS, LETTING UP DESPITE GREAT FAULTS [...]

Future Sounds has moved well beyond being friends with San Diego blogger FRIENDS WITH BOTH ARMS . We've been so smitten by their daily entries and new discoveries that we convinced them to join the party at THE RUMBLE: SAN DIEGO going forward. Nada and her crew not only focus on the booming SD music scene, they seem to find acts crawling out of everywhere, and I've been most impressed with their video sessions and their frequent mixtape series , and if you time it [...]
Jan 31, 2011, 5:21am
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TV Girl - If You Want It ( mp3 )
This is the first post of a column I'm doing with Nada from Friends with Both Arms . Since meeting last summer, we've been tossing a lot of bands back and forth at each other. Now that she's back living on the west coast, we thought it would be cool to create a column to run on both of our sites where we present one east coast artist and one west coast artist, with you deciding who you like better. If you're digging what I find from the east, "like" this post, RT or put your comments below. If [...]
Welcome to the first of many (friendly) rivalries in a column called East vs. West, with honorable competitor, fellow blogger Chris at Indie Music Filter. I met Chris last summer in Toronto and we recently came up with the idea to showcase a cool artist from our current coasts that we've been digging, and offer them up to you all to decide which one you like best. Let's be honest, West coast is the best coast, although I'll admit, Tearjerker is pretty killer. So now it's up to you, if you're feeling TV Girl , repost/retweet/like this [...]
Monday, January 24, 2011 Today's Quick Mention: Just a heads up, I'm currently working with someone to completely redesign the site on a new platform. If you've ever wanted to see something around here (particular tools, content, features, whatever) then now would be the time to bring it up! Just email me. Five tracks to make sure your week gets started right. Enjoy. : Akron Family - Silly Bears : Just when I thought the single So It Goes [...]