Take the world of Dwight Eisenhower and prom dresses and coat it in a narcotic fug: that's what Denver band Weed Diamond do on Nothing To Write Home About . You know this world from a thousand "birth of the teenager" movies, but Weed Diamond aren't about going steady and getting their licenses. A different kind of retrofuturism. Weed Diamond - Nothing To Write Home About (alternate download)

School Knights // All Dawgz Go To Heaven Here is something special to scorch your ear canals and leave them with a burning sensation for the better part of the day. Scuzz rockers School Knights just dropped their eagerly-anticipated debut album called All Dawgz Go To Heaven on the consistently impressive Dracula Horse label (run by those jolly old chaps in COOLRUNNINGS ). The album is eleven tracks of blistering noise pop with surprisingly high replay value. The album features reworks of several tracks [...]
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I received an email from Tim Perry the other day stated the Weed Diamond had broken up and with the email he was gracious enough to send an enormous collection of unreleased WD tracks, I decided to pick a few of the more somber ones I'd never even seen to post and then of course the tracks we posted as they came along the past two years. On a lighter note it was a pleasure to know the guys as a band, them playing our SXSW 2010 show and enjoying a tasty sip of their communal [...]

//photo by paul rosales Just found out that Colorado's Weed Diamond broke up back in the tail end of January - which is a damn shame because those boys were really starting to grow on me. Everything is there in it's place; the jangly guitar, the washed out vocals and the heart-wrenching chorus. Bury my heart in Colorado Springs. Weed Diamond - Oklahoma Weed Diamond - Mint In My Mouth Download audio file (oklahoma.mp3) [...]
If I were to play Dirty Beaches’ debut full-length, Badlands, loudly in my apartment, my neighbors would likely suspect one of two things. Either I pulled out an old-fashioned phonograph and started playing tattered vinyls of early-era rockabilly, or I was blasting a documentary focused around novels like On the Road and Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas [...]
Instead of coming across like decorating a Christmas tree in July, the summer-friendly pop of Tennis is a refreshing and apt reminder of anticipatory feelings that would usually take months to arrive from January. Tennis are one of 2011’s most buzzed-about bands thus far thanks to the eclectic qualities of this husband-wife duo. Their debut, Cape Dory, lives up to expectations.

Family Intro - Bedrooms of the Nation Honesty - Weed Diamond Cody Girl- Weed MI + AMORE - Wise Blood Teen Age Riot - Sonic Youth Look! - The Antlers (Antichrist Television Blues) - Arcade Fire No Key No Plan - Okkervil River Caroline, Please Kill Me - Coma Cinema Wasting Time - Reading Rainbow [...]

Nya demos från lo-fi-pop-bandet Weed Diamond är alltid ett välkommet inslag i var mans inkorg, och idag dök två särskilt fina sådana ner i min tillsammans med nyheten om att de inom kort ska släppa en split med Jeans Wilder samt att en kassett på Patient Sounds kommer se dagens ljus om några veckor. Tills dess, håll till godo med dessa uppriktiga härligheter Weed Diamond - Mean it Weed Diamond - Honesty
Oct 20, 2010, 11:16pm
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So I’ve finally decided to finish it up and call it done. First post! Second compilation! This one documenting the end of summer and the start of a cold autumn. I tried to give the compilation a feeling of being recorded on tape with cassettes being audibly ejected and inserted into the deck... I had a really hard time completing this mix, I’ve been working on this for maybe 4 months and the tracklist and theme has changed countless times. But I feel like now it really has a strong part of myself in it. There are [...]
Tan Dollar: Headphones Weed Diamond bros and all-around cool cats Tan Dollar are still prepping the release of their Uneven cassette, but Impose has graced us with three sneak previews. I had a hard time choosing which one to post (they’re all so good) , but settled on the irresistible pop explosion of “Headphones”. Despite the title, this is not a “curl up in bed and drift off to sleep” song; this is [...]
Sep 7, 2010, 5:14pm
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mike + zack School Knights - Bullies School Knights - Recess School Knights is exactly what the end to this heat wave needs, some fucking balls. Thrashin' like a tongue in a middle school make out sesh, our boy Michael from Weed Diamond and his homie Zack have been rulin' out anthem after jam after getting caught smoking weed in the boy's bathroom. Denver rebels, dude...just living somewhere else. I spend a lot of my time [...]

Weed Diamond: Chalice (Demo) Just when I’m thinking “man, I could really use more Weed Diamond in my life”, they throw some wonderful new demos up on their Facebook page (like ‘em if you haven’t already). These guys have been on an absolute roll recently (See: Carry On + Sweater Kids ), and by the sound of “Field on Fire”/”Chalice”, they haven’t lost their momentum. While “Field on Fire” takes a crunchy, Sonic Youth-y route, “Chalice” [...]

Continuing with their constant churning of (multi)repeatable tunes, Weed Diamond come back with a couple demo recordings of their newest visions. These tracks may explore different moods from one another with "Chalice" as a slow-burning grower and "Field on Fire" being a long-lived pop marathon (5+ miuntes!), but both are soaking with lovely 90s lo-fidelity. With no mentions of a label or release info, it is still unclear of what their intentions are with these. Still, I'd rather have the mp3s than nothing at all... Weed Diamond - Field on Fire [...]

C'est sans appel, Weed Diamond brille de milles feux et malgré que ce ne soit encore que des démos, ces deux titres sont déjà éternels à mes oreilles... [MP3] Weed Diamond - Chalice (Démo) [MP3] Weed Diamond - Field On Fire (Démo) Share This

My friend Kevin over at Bridgetown sent over this great summer sampler featuring ten tracks from Weed Diamond , Ancient Crux, Vehicle Blues and more. Download the mix here: http://www.mediafire.com/?wmzj 1dzzzuzvmon And then you can grab their 7-album package HERE .
In La Puente, a rather small community somewhere in LA county, Kevin Greenspon spends his days with something that's becoming more and more rare in our all-digital internet age: Running the one-man miracle Bridgetown Records , he has devoted himself to packing and sending strictly limited CDr and cassette tape releases by hand picked artists, most probably without ever even getting close to be in the black. Of course, those small imprints have always existed, but it probably needed that nostalgia-infused cassette revival [...]

P. Jeff Luker (Brooklyn, NY) enjoy. Play Entire Playlist Here | Download Here [Audio clip: view full post to listen] Best Coast - Boyfriend Weed Diamond - All Of Denver Is Wasted Club 8 - Western Hospitality Man/Miracle - Hot Sprawl Social Studies - Holler Boys Dream Cop - Marooned The Drums - Let's [...]

Just got a message from Kevin Greenspon letting us know that his Bridgetown Records label recently sent out it's Summer Sampler of artists he's worked with in the past few months. The list includes the likes of Ancient Crux, Kindest Lines, Junior Low, R. Sawyer, and David Jaberi, but it was Weed Diamond that really caught our ears. Check out the Bridgetown Records homepage to listen to samples from all the artists, or to order the complete package of physical media. MP3: Weed Diamond - All Of Denver Is Wasted MP3: Weed [...]

Weed Diamond played one last show in Denver last week, before head off on tour. You can catch the all up and down the West Coast throughout July. Weed Diamond 6.27.2010 Hi-Dive, Denver, CO Source: Microtech Gefell M3002s > Lunatec V3 > digi-coax > Oade Mod Edirol R44 @ 24/48 > SDHC > Adobe Audition 3.0 > Resample to 16/44.1 > CDWave Taped by: Lance Stack Setlist: 1. intro 2. unknown 3. [...]