Bleached is made up of the Clavin sisters - Jennifer and Jessica - who previously played in Mika Miko . This time around, however, things are less raucous. Jennifer told the Washington Post: I mean it doesn't feel as punk. Bands that are punk, they don't really have plans. [With Mika Miko] it was just, let's start a band and play music. And now we're actually trying to write good songs and caring a little bit more. Before we didn't really care .
Along with her sister Jessica, Jennifer Clavin formed two-fifths of exuberant indie punks Mika Miko. Though that group disbanded in 2009, the sisters continued making music.… [ Read more ] [ Subscribe to the comments on this story ]

I've returned from CMJ where I spent far more time walking around than seeing music. What can I say, I'm very easily distracted. One of the bands I'd most wanted to see, and subsequently missed every one of their shows was Bleached , the newly formed act fronted by sisters Jennifer and Jessica Clavin whom you might remember from one of the best live bands to disband in recent years, Mika Miko. As Bleached, the Clavin sisters sing rumbling punk rock & roll in unison over fuzzed out guitar riffs. Their [...]
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Zwei ehemalige Mika Miko Mitglieder melden sich mit neuem Projekt zurück. Nach der Auflösung der LA Girl Punk Band Mika Miko, die am 1. Januar 2010 ihr letztes Konzert im Club «The Smell» spielte, ist Frontfrau Jennifer Clavin nach New York gezogen und hat sich mit den Synthpoppern Gold Cave zusammengetan. Mittlerweile hat sie aber der Ostküste bereits wieder den Rücken zugekehrt und hat mit Schwester Jennifer, ebenfalls Ex-Mika Miko, das Duo Bleached gegründet. Eine erste Single namens «Carter» wurde bereits im Frühsommer dieses Jahres veröffentlicht. Nun folgt [...]
From the ashes of Mika Miko comes Bleached, whose sunny " Think Of You " we posted earlier in the summer. Here's another track, "Searching Through The Past," where the Clavin sisters ramp up the vintage girl group vocals. Read More...

Here's another infectious jam from former Mika Miko sisters Jessica + Jennifer Clavin : Bleached 's limited (750 copies) Searching Through the Past 73 drops December 6 on Suicide Squeeze . And if you happen to be around for CMJ, you can catch the girls at the party we're throwing with Yours Truly next Thursday night. mp3: Bleached :: Searching Through The Past

In the past, I've had rollercoaster moments with Mika Miko's musical output -- sometimes I would vomit, other times I'd be enthralled. Bleached is better and delivers more of an aggressive surf-punk style with gallons of immediacy, and this video is awesome. The Clavin sisters' "Think of You" is featured on the Carter 7" single out now via Art Fag . Jennifer Clavin and Lana Kim direct.
[directed by lana kim + jennifer clavin ] mp3: Bleached :: Think of You

I have been meaning to post this super catchy track from Jessica and Jennifer Clavin a/k/a Bleached for a while now. Bleached is just one of the bands formed out of the ashes of Mika Miko (see also Dunes and Cold Showers ). Their Carter 73 was released in late July, and is already sold out . Here is the b-side. Listen. Downloadable: You Take Time Hopefully, the duo will play some shows in the NYC area [...]
Let us be honest: everyone was sad when Mika Miko, torch-bearers of the L.A. art-rock scene, decided to call it quits. Let us be honest again: everything that's tumbled out of that fallout has been just as enjoyable, if not more so. Jessica and Jennifer Clavin's Bleached drops the experimentation of Mika Miko in favor [...]

Bleached - "Think Of You" It's a testament to LA art-punk band Mika Miko that the group's dissolution has spawned so many interesting projects, including Dunes, Cold Showers and Bleached . Bleached was formed by Jessica and Jennifer Clavin, and the band has released a couple of 73s so far. "Think of You" is catchy as hell, with that punk/pop steamroller effect that the Ramones and Misfits both did so well. It's a sound that would make the band an ideal compliment for SF's Terry Malts [...]

Gari Askew Jennifer and Jessica Clavin are the sisters who went from Mika Miko to sidemanning (for Cold Cave and Puro Instinct, respectively) and now back to a band together with their new group, Bleached. They speak now about the albums that they think about when they make music of their own. Bleached has a new 7" out and will play with the Spits at L.A. RECORD's Psycho Beach Party at the Blue Star . DELTA 5, "MIND YOUR OWN BUSINESS" and "ANTICIPATION" 7"s (ROUGH TRADE, 1979 and 1980) [...]
Here's a video from Dunes , the LA trio featuring ex-Mika Miko member Kate Hall. The affiliation is relevant for purposes of fingering their track "Tied Together"'s sound - female-fronted post-punk with less spike, more wooze - and the cameos in its iPhone-cam video, a Google+ circle's worth of friends from Mika Miko's old Smell-y scene and others to boot: spot the faces from No Age, Vivian Girls, Abe Vigoda, High Places, Telepathe, Cold Showers, Nodzzz, Bleached, Pangea, Shannon and the Clams, and Devon Williams Band. Click: Read More...

As Bleached , sisters Jennifer and Jessie Clavin deliver snappy, classically constructed, easy-on-the-ears punk music. The group already has one 7" under their belts—the Francis EP, out now via Ooga Booga —with a second, the Carter 7", due out July 19th on Art Fag . Carter features two new tracks, "Think of You" and "You Take Time." "Think of You," the A-side, is a bouncy three-chord wonder of strummy punk with a sharp bass line and ear-catching vocal melodies: a lo-fi, female vision of the Ramones equipped with head-banging rhythms and [...]

Last month we highlighted Bleached, the duo of Jessica and Jennifer Clavin. The sisters' former Mika Miko bandmate-turned- director Kate Hall has a newish musical project as well called Dunes. The low-key lo-fi LA trio, which also features Stephanie Chan and Mark Greshowak, follows up last year's self-titled EP with the woozy post-punk single "Tied Together," a tune that will appeal to fans of Puro Instinct. Grab it below. Read More...

Disbanded LA punk outfit, Mika Miko's bassist, Jessica Clavin, and sister Jennifer make up the new side project duo Bleached . They're releasing Carter 7" via Art Fag on July 19th. Jennifer spent most of 2010 touring with Cold Cave before moving back to the studio with her sister. I loved We Be Xuxa the most out of all of Mika Miko's arsenal, mainly due to its in-and-out bonecrushing [...]