Video: The Eversons - Could It Ever Get Better?

Wednesday, July 11, 2012 As much as I love my favorite Austin acts, I also have a soft spot for guitar pop bands from New Zealand. Thanks to some lazy nighttime browsing on Twitter (credit goes to this guy), I discovered The Eversons. Their debut album, Summer Feeling, is appropriately titled - it sounds warm, sunny, carefree, and fun. It should also include a warning label that says it "may induce giddy singalongs." One of the LP's highlights is the lead track, Could It [...]

• The Eversons - Could It Ever Get Better?

Clever, addicting and absolutely amazing, what more can I say? The Eversons are the latest band to emerge from the Southern Hemisphere that packs a punch. This New Zealand quartet blew me away from the very first time I heard their music and they feel like a band I have been enjoying for years. As a matter of fact, they seem eerily reminiscent of their self-described role models Weezer . Much like their heroes’ debut ( Weezer’s self-titled debut album a.k.a. The Blue Album ), The Eversons first track knocked me [...]

The Eversons specialise in upbeat pop numbers, carried along by catchy call-and-response vocals and arrangements that favour the guitar. Their lyrics use a wry sense of humour to talk about the bittersweet feeling of being young, how poorly prepared they are to grow up, and what it’s like to look out at the world from a small country like New Zealand. Download Could it ever get better [...]

• The Eversons - Could It Ever Get Better?

What if Weezer were from New Zealand? The obvious answer is that probably nobody would have ever heard of them. Well, you people would have, because you guys are erudite pop aficionados. The Eversons are from New Zealand, so they're working with one hand tied behind their back, but they're taking the bull by the horns and moving to Melbourne, Australia. Not really, though they allude to it in their song Heading Overseas. I'll admit it, I was never much of a Weezer fan, so I'm going on hearing only a [...]

• The Eversons - Heading Overseas

So we've got something extra exciting for all you mad-scientists across the pond, today B3SCI is giving away a pair of passes to Big Beach Bootique 5 in Brighton! Yep, that party that started on the beaches has grown (and then grown some more!) and this year is taking place June 1-2 at Amex Community Stadium in Brighton, England. We're hooking-up one lucky winner with a pair of passes to both days of the festival which will include performances and DJ sets from the likes of Fatboy Slim, Carl Cox, Nero, The 2 Bears, Annie Mac and more! [...]