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  • Review: La Sera – Music for Listening to Music to

      Six years on and Katy Goodman‘s trip through sixties’ pop, jangly seventies’ dream pop and visceral punk takes a turn into the gravel and dirt roads of alt-country. This is Music for listening to music to and, unsurprisingly, it’s a enjoyable romp. Guided by she of the fiery hair and fierce strumming, La Sera‘s change from dream pop…

  • Stream: Belafonte Sensacional – Torreón

    The folk genre always seems to strike a chord in Mexico’s heart. Chava Flores’ jocular anecdotes peppered with our vernacular. Rockdrigo González, who journeyed from Tampico to his doom in Mexico City, also tapped into this vein. Enter Belafonte Sensacional, who follows this tradition of taking lyrical snapshots of Mexico’s weird and wonderful fauna and wrap them into folk songs about…

  • Stream: Wot Gorilla? – …And then there were three… / Skiddaw

    Tuesday is the February of the week. This is not up for debate. Wot Gorilla? are wonderful dealers of Math Rock. This is not for debate either. Just fresh off the oven, ‘…and then there were three…’ is a gentle reminder of the industrial strength of Wot Gorilla?’s intricate web of riffs, drumming and shushed vocals. The…

  • Interview: Acidandali

    Noise Rock and Experimental Rock. For years, it seemed like an errand’s fool to start a band in these genres. At least in the Mexico City scene, both seemed like the refuge of freaks and gear geeks, with many a band’s future lost inside dank garages and isolated practice rooms. But the passage of time not only…

  • Stream: Weekender – Floaty Feeling, Blue

    Aw, geeze, the weekend is over but start this beautiful April Monday with the breezy dream pop from Weekender. ‘Floaty Feeling, Blue’ adds a dash of synth atmospheres to the colourful tones the band has painted with fingers splayed. You can feel a decisive love for 80s (check out the June 106 sound there!) while still giving…

  • Reseña: Weezer – Weezer (the white album)

    El futuro está ocurriendo ayer récords presenta:   Todos lo hicimos. El experimento de pintar un disco de cartulina con diferentes segmentos de colores, perforar un par de agujeros y hacer pasar un hilo de cáñamo a través de ellos para crear un sencillo sistema rotativo que al girar nos mostrara mágicamente el resultante color…

  • Assignment #23 : The House Party

    “I grew up watching all these videos of house parties” says Migraine Boy, between sips of Indio beer “and I always wanted to have my own behemoth house party were things get broken, music is performed and every one ends up demolished.” The warm August trashes a few solo cups. Mixed with the gust of…

  • The Lost Gem: Jenny Lewis & The Watson Twins – Rabbit Fur Coat

    Ten years ago, I was driving through the barren highways of northern Nuevo León, taking GPS points for an environmental study. My companions were another environmental scientist and a bunch of mix cds that curiously had Rilo Kiley‘s ‘The good that won’t come out’ in each of them. I confess without regret: I have an obsession with…

  • Stream: Tennis System – Here We Go

    Y’all remember Tennis System? We do! The trio are back with ‘Here We Go’, a brand new video for their upcoming album, out later this year. ‘Here we go’ finds Tennis System in a manic mood, delivering a track heavily infused with urgency and longing. The lazy Susan stage where the band performs for the video conveys…

  • Stream: Firesuite – Deadbeat

      It’s been a long time inside a chrysalis state, but Firesuite‘s new album, Outlive your body, is nearing its release date and there’s  a new track to whet appetites of shoegazers and space rockers alike. The instrumental ‘Deadbeat’ iterates itself in a swirl of atmospheres, jazzy drums and cosmic guitars. An amorphous shape in space collects…