Video: Killer in Me (Silverlake porch style)

The last few weeks, I've become pretty smitten with the Dead Trees. The band's backstory is relatively simple: After toiling around Boston for a few years, it self-released an EP, listened to a lot of Pavement, befriended Albert Hammond Jr. (of the Strokes) and signed a deal in Japan before getting any recognition state side. Less than a year ago, the four piece (singer/guitarist Michael Ian Cummings, guitarist Matthew Borg, drummer Noah Rubin and bassist Tad Dahlhoff) relocated to Portland, and their debut full-length King of Rosa is set for a Nov. 25 release on Milan Records. [...]

The modest beginnings play out in the The Dead Trees [Myspace] music in the best way – there's no artifice here, not much "production" to speak of, just a bunch of good musicians doing what comes...

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