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Video: Craft Spells – 'Your Tomb' (They Shoot Music Don't They Session)

Nov 10, 2011, 2:00pm The Rawking Refuses To Stop!
Craft Spells - Your Tomb // THE COPENHAGEN SESSIONS
Are we finally hitting the too-many-live-sessions precipice? I hope not. One of the most exciting things about these videos is hearing songs in fresh contexts, whether it's stripped-down instrumentation or from the vantage point of an exotic locale. This take on Craft Spells' "Your Tomb" does both, offering a very Sarah Records version of the formerly electrified song as the band wanders through Copenhagen. Lovely.
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New Music: Lucy Rose – 'Middle of the Bed'

Nov 10, 2011, 8:00am The Rawking Refuses To Stop!
New Music: Lucy Rose – 'Middle of the Bed' Lucy Rose was Bombay Bicycle Club's duet partner on that lovely cover of "Video Games" I posted the other day, and the British singer's solo material is even better. "Middle of the Bed" shifts flawlessly from finely wrought folk to marble-smooth dream-pop and back in three minutes; it evokes White Ladder -era David Gray, LP2 Kings of Convenience, every band we like. Enjoy. (Also, hey, she's pretty! Congratulations, you have eyes.) Lucy Rose - Middle Of The Bed by Lucy Rose [...]
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Artist:Lucy Rose
Title:Middle Of The Bed
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Month in Review: September 2011

Nov 9, 2011, 3:00pm The Rawking Refuses To Stop!
Month in Review: September 2011 Olivia Tremor Control / photo by David Greenwald Everything Rawkblog posted in September 2011. Enjoy. Lists : * The 8 Best Unsigned Bands in Los Angeles * Best of 2011: September Essentials Tracks: * Hotel Lights - "Falling Down" * Blouse - "Videotapes" * Ether Coil - "Light" * New Music: Ariel Pink's Haunted Graffiti – 'Witch Hunt Suite [...]
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Best of 2011: October Essentials

Nov 9, 2011, 8:00am The Rawking Refuses To Stop!
Best of 2011: October Essentials Real Estate / photo by David Greenwald Here are the October-released albums I loved. All worth your time and money. Real Estate - Days Guitar chiming never sounded so good. (At least not this year.) | Album Review | "It's Real" video | Buy "It's Real": mp3 North Highlands - Wild One Genuinely quirky Brooklyn chamber-folk act goes electric and hypnotic with its debut album. [...]
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Best of 2011: October Essentials

Nov 9, 2011, 7:55am The Rawking Refuses To Stop!
Best of 2011: October Essentials Real Estate / photo by David Greenwald Here are the October-released albums I loved. All worth your time and money. Real Estate - Days Guitar chiming never sounded so good. (At least not this year.) | Album Review | "It's Real" video | Buy "It's Real": mp3 North Highlands - Wild One Genuinely quirky Brooklyn chamber-folk act goes electric and hypnotic with its debut album. [...]
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Artist:Real Estate
Title:It's Real
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Genre:Indie-Pop
Year:2011

Month in Review: October 2011

Nov 8, 2011, 12:56pm The Rawking Refuses To Stop!
Month in Review: October 2011 Jens Lekman Here's everything that happened on Rawkblog this month. Peruse after the jump! Don't Miss: * Guest Mixtape: '80s Obscurities from Captured Tracks Records * Interview: Cymbals Eat Guitars * Album Review: Real Estate - Days New Tracks/Album Reviews: * Premiere: Erik Jourgensen - "Interzone" * Premiere: Ben Heywood (Summer Darling) - "Spectacular Violence" [...]
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Review: Atlas Sound – 'Parallax'

Nov 8, 2011, 11:23am The Rawking Refuses To Stop!
Review: Atlas Sound – 'Parallax' I reviewed Atlas Sounds' excellent new album for the A.V. Club: Cox side-project Atlas Sound, with its bedroom genesis and intimate intent, has always felt like his refuge. Parallax , Cox's third Atlas full-length, is as attentively produced as 2009's superbly spacey Logos , but the songs shed some of his usual studio trickery in favor of broad melodies and open chords. Read the full review at the A.V. Club . Atlas Sound - "Te Amo": mp3 [...]
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Video: Jens Lekman – Tiny Desk Concert

Nov 7, 2011, 6:53pm The Rawking Refuses To Stop!
My favorite sweet-talking Swede (and his finger-snapping percussionist!) plays a handful of recent jams, including hopeful LP4 heart-breaker "I Want a Pair of Cowboy Boots," for NPR's video series. Jens Lekman - "An Argument with Myself" : mp3 Previously : Live: Jens Lekman at Hollywood Forever Cemetery, 9.28.11
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Live: In One Wind, Big Moves and Gothic Tropic @ The Silverlake Lounge, 11.03.11

Nov 7, 2011, 8:00am The Rawking Refuses To Stop!
Live: In One Wind, Big Moves and Gothic Tropic @ The Silverlake Lounge, 11.03.11
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Artist:Big Moves
Title:Groundbreaking Studies
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Bitrate:269 kbps
Genre:Indie-Rock
Year:2011

Video: Real Estate – 'It's Real'

Nov 4, 2011, 2:36pm The Rawking Refuses To Stop!
Real Estate - Its Real
Among the really great things in the video for REal Estate's "It's Real": adorable hipster puppies, aspirational sweaters, and a clever little nod toward the played-out Super 8 aesthetic of every indie rock video of the last three years. Woof. Real Estate's Days , of course, remains one of the year's very best records, as I wrote about here .
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Why you should sign up for my digital record club

Nov 4, 2011, 1:17pm The Rawking Refuses To Stop!
Let's get vulnerable for a minute, pals. I was laid off by the Los Angeles Times in July, when its alt-weekly, Brand X - the place I worked at and loved for the previous year - folded. I have, believe it or not, a pretty lengthy resume and figured I'd get plenty of freelance work. I have: I'm still writing my weekly L.A. Unheard column for the Times , I was hired as a contributing editor at Billboard and I'm writing semi-regularly for places I love and respect like the A.V. Club [...]
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New Music: Dolorean – 'Thinskinned'

Nov 4, 2011, 8:00am The Rawking Refuses To Stop!
New Music: Dolorean – 'Thinskinned' From the 2011 Tracks Not To Miss Dept.: Dolorean's "Thinskinned," the Jackson Browne song of the year. The rest of latest album The Unfazed , unfortunately, spends too much time running on empty, but man, this chorus! Dolorean - "Thinskinned": mp3 ( The Unfazed is out now on Partisan Records ; stream it on Spotify ) Want more music like this delivered to your Spotify inbox? Join our brand-new Digital Record Club .
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Title:Thinskinned
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Bitrate:239 kbps
Genre:Alt-Country
Year:2011

#SciFiHoldSteady Lyrics

Nov 3, 2011, 10:00pm The Rawking Refuses To Stop!
You're welcome/I'm sorry. Post yours in the comments! [ View the story "#SciFiHoldSteady" on Storify ]
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Video: The Miracals – 'Give Me a Chance'

Nov 3, 2011, 2:03pm The Rawking Refuses To Stop!
The Miracals - Give Me A Chance
In which L.A.'s best pure pop band (yes) gets dorky and adorable (but not adorkable, fuck that).
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New Music: Teletextile – 'What If I'

Nov 3, 2011, 8:00am The Rawking Refuses To Stop!
New Music: Teletextile – 'What If I' The funny thing about hearing "Brooklyn-based" as a band descriptor this year is it's finally stopped being a bummer: maybe it's just rising rents forcing out the laptop slackers, but most new Brooklyn bands are pretty good these days! The latest to catch my ears is Teletextile, a band that sounds like PJ Harvey and Broadcast working on new material in a really great-sounding garage. "What If I" pulses with tense bass work even as singer Pamela Martinez makes the line "What if I can't escape?" sound like a surprising, multi-tracked pleasure. It's clever, tuneful, joyous; maybe it's time to [...]
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Artist:Teletextile
Title:What If I
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Year:2010

Mercury Music, Our Digital Record Club, Is Here

Nov 2, 2011, 11:00am The Rawking Refuses To Stop!
As I announced a few weeks back, I'm starting a digital record club. It's here! Every week, I'll be sending subscribers two albums-one new, one classic-via Spotify, along with special playlists, MP3 premieres and a Personal Mixtape custom-made to help you find your next favorite band. The goal is to make music discovery as easy as it can possibly be: all you have to do is open Spotify, click "Inbox" and press play. Come check it out! . If you're a Rawkblog reader and you want to support the site, this is the best way [...]
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New Music: Lemuria – 'Pleaser'

Nov 2, 2011, 7:56am The Rawking Refuses To Stop!
New Music: Lemuria – 'Pleaser' Photo by Jason Persse As 2011 stumbles to an allegedly photographer-hitting close, there are a few of last winter's songs that still deserve your attention. Among them: Lemuria's "Pleaser," a crisply produced emo-punk effort (Jawbox's J. Robbins was behind the boards) from the band's sophomore album, Pebble . The rest of the set won't start you throwing out your Promise Ring LPs, but "Pleaser" is something special: its combination of sprinting drums, searing guitar chords and mirrored male-female vocals is as enthusiastic and ecstatic as the genre gets. The boy-girl dynamic reminds me [...]
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Review: Little Horn – 'Twelve' EP

Nov 1, 2011, 8:00am The Rawking Refuses To Stop!
Review: Little Horn – 'Twelve' EP Via Facebook Lullaby for the Working Class' Blanket Warm is one of my favorite records, a pre-Saddle Creek Mike Mogis' finest hour. There are few sets since that match that album's well-churned mixture of blue-collar gruffness and arrangement elegance. Little Horn's debut EP, Twelve , comes extremely close. Its best song is "Bridges Break," a song that fits more sober depth into three-and-a-half minutes than most bands manage in an hour; don't mind the "Champagne Supernova" guitar lick that opens the song. The initial sense of boozy indulgence is dried [...]
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Artist:Little Horn
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Bitrate:226 kbps
Genre:Folk
Year:2011

Premiere: Erik Jourgensen – 'Interzone'

Oct 31, 2011, 8:00am The Rawking Refuses To Stop!
Premiere: Erik Jourgensen – 'Interzone' Interzone by ErikJourgensen Erik Jourgensen hails from Sacramento, placing him not far from the folk Central Valley semi-scene of Scott Bartenhagen and Micol Cazzell . In the opening moments of Jourgensen's "Interzone," the song's blinking guitars nod in their direction - then it bursts into full-on bedroom pop, a lo-fi whirl of programmed drums and major-key lead riffs. But when he sings, "We could go home," he sounds like a Northern Californian once again, evoking another local four-tracker: Modesto's own Jason Lytle of Grandaddy. Zone in above. [...]
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Artist:ErikJourgensen
Title:Interzone
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Video: Little Scream – Take-Away Show

Oct 28, 2011, 8:00am The Rawking Refuses To Stop!
Little Scream | A Take Away Show from La Blogotheque on Vimeo . Another day, another heart-stopping outdoor performance by Little Scream. A nice compliment to her Southern Souls session and that Work Drugs remix . Laurel and the gang play the Satellite on Nov. 16.
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