As a UC Davis alumnus, I'm always proud to promote the vibrant underground music scene in Davis, CA. Run primarily by the local college radio station KDVS 90.3FM , the city lights up every week with house shows by bands playing diverse versions of strange, noisy, alt-everything. Often very few of the students present have even heard the band — but it's still worth it to go to the show, grab a 40 oz of Miller Lite and join the ear-splitting, sweaty, living room mosh pit and then waltz outside and have a [...]
'Serial Parade' is a deconstruction of music from the '50s and '60s, then reassembled with the parts attaching in the wrong places and snapping to fit. Read more »
Twin Steps are an Oakland, CA band that mix samples with surf guitars and yelping harmonies. Pulling samples from various artists such as Etta James, The Supremes, Connie Francis, and Frankie Valli, Twin Steps songs have an infectious, nostalgic vibe that will hook you instantly. The band recently released their EP Serial Parade on April 10th, but now they've debuted an unreleased single, "Son of Sam" that features classic horn samples from Eddie Bo's "From This Day On". Of course, Twin Steps have done something completely different with it than just using it as a [...]
Friday, April 20, 2012 Today's Quick Mention: Don't forget that tomorrow is Record Store Day! There's a ton of great releases (see the full list here) lined up, so get out there and support the kind folks who still sell physical copies of music. Weekend time! Enjoy. : Sad Baby Wolf - Everything Is (Neutral Milk Hotel) : Aside from the fact that their name sounds like they picked three items out of a [...]
Casy & Brian by Casy & Brian Just got a heads-up about the rad-looking "The City is Ours" party going down in Oakland this Saturday night with a crazy long bill of local musicians, including acts-we've-written-about Twin Steps , Casy & Brian , and SAFE , as well as a bunch of artists we'll be covering more in the future, like San Jose rapper Antwon and Oakland production duo Friendzone [...]
To celebrate today's crop of releases, here are new mp3s from Black Dice, Kishi Bashi, the Creepy Crawlies, Jennie Gillespie, Young Hines, Lissy Trullie and Twin Steps. Also, vote for your favorite of today's new releases.
After catching up with last week's batch of new releases in Volume One or Volume Two, this week's new releases are in and it's time to dive right in to sort out of favorites. This week's posts - like many of the weekly Best New Releases posts - has a number of bands to watch in [...] Read more, get songs or stream the entire mix on Indie Rock Cafe
Here's our latest month-in-review mix collecting some our favorite new (or new to us) songs recently posted on the website. So much good stuff came our way in March that we've actually got a two-part mix of blog songs this time. As always, we've included links below to download each of these songs individually. Mixtape: Best of the Blog March 2012 (Part 1) Mixtape: Best of the Blog March 2012 (Part 2) Tracklisting: [...]
Oakland's Twin Steps offer a twisted and stirred take of doo-wop, malt shops, and other sixties sounds and samples. The Oakland trio will release the EP, Serial Parade , next week on April 10th. First hand examples set below for your discovery. listen to "Pinkie Promise" watch "Junkie Song" http://twinsteps.bandcamp.com/ http://www.colabruin.com/
Twin Steps recently performed their song "Junkie Song" for a performance for Into The Woods TV. The band will release their EP Serial Parade on April 10th. Watch their spastic performance of "Junkie Song" below. Read more »
Twin Steps are an Oakland, CA band that mix samples with surf guitars and yelping harmonies. Pulling samples from various artists such as Etta James, The Supremes, Connie Francis, and Frankie Valli, Twin Steps songs have an infectious, nostalgic vibe that will hook you instantly. The band will release their EP Serial Parade on April 10th. Download their single "Pinkie Promise" below. Read more »
Every day, Daily Downloads offers 10 free and legal mp3 downloads, plus free and legal live sets from around the internet. Today's free and legal mp3 downloads: Adam and the Amethysts : "Prophecy" [mp3] from Flickering Flashlight search for more Adam and the Amethysts posts at Largehearted Boy Life in a Blender : free and [...]
Twin Steps - "Pinkie Promise" Oakland's soul-by-way-of-garage-rock group Twin Steps are seeing a full North American release on April 3rd of their debut EP, Serial Parade . Signed by San Francisco label Cola Bruin , the press materials describe the EP as "well-crafted pop nuggets that blend surf guitar licks, syrupy '602s pop melodies with girl-group drum beats, yelping harmonies, and the playfulness of twee into a ramshackle yet exuberant listening experience." Stream the full album below and [...]
Twin Steps - Pinkie Promise Check out "Pinkie Promise," a doo wop laced experimental pop track that is extremely infectious and sometimes a little frenetic. Its more of a surreal, almost schizophrenic soundscape set to a 602s doo-wop style. The track comes from their upcoming EP, Serial Parade out April 10th on Cola Bruin.
The time has come for me to regurgitate an entire years worth of music on to the digital table so you can pick through the mess and see what I liked and possibly find something you missed or something you agree with or something you've never heard of and suddenly like. As usual there are [...]
Serial Parade by Twin Steps Introducing new, awesome tunes from the Oakland band Twin Steps , featuring Nick Cowan from Religious Girls on drums. Twin Steps' Serial Parade 103 is coming out on a new local label, Colabruin and is available to preorder. Twin Steps has two shows coming up in early December: on the 6th at SFSU with Thee Oh Sees , and then on December 10 with UZI Rash and [...]
Twin Steps are an Oakland faux-garage real-life-party-slayer three piece that apparently has recruited Frank Black to lead them in the form of Drew Pearson. Non-stop beautiful energy with these... [go to the website to read the rest of the article, download mp3s and more]
Someone Else Talking finds us harassing a musician long enough that they cough up the fascinating gems that are their current inspirations. Be it music or food or film or folly, we want to know what's getting these people up in the morning. And because we want to know, you get to read about it. Twin [...]
It's a beautiful day outside in this charming city. Here's my cloud free audio companion for it: mp3: Purity Ring - Belispeak | Tumblr mp3: Gung Ho - Twin Rays |... [go to the website to read the rest of the article, download mp3s and more]
Twin Steps "Junkie Song" blew my mind last week and this video that was tossed in to my lap last night of them playing that song underneath a bridge in Portland, OR, reminds me just why my grey matter is a splatter on some concrete wall somewhere. The amazing people over at NW film [...]
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