Coverage from the week of May 26 - June 1 on BestNewBands.com from Sasquatch! Festival and more, along with brand new discoveries.

BestNewBands.com Mixtape #27

DIIV's debut LP 'Oshin' is out June 26th. 

DIIV // How Long Have You Known

The Mohawk Lodge - "Hard Love"

Out February 25 on Night School (Europe) and March 12 on Slumberland Records (US + Canada)

Glasgow's Golden Grrrls are Eilidh Rodgers, Ruari MacLean and Rachel Aggs. What began as bedroom guitar experimentation soon bloomed into a fully-formed pop language inspired by the 80s New Zealand and Australian indie pop scenes, DIY punk and Glasgow's own rich pop history (think The Vaselines, The Pastels). Drummer Eilidh Rodgers' inventive, loose-cannon drumming and lead vocals have framed MacLean's baritone from the beginning, with newest member Rachel Aggs (also of Trash Kit) bringing an effortless melodic sensibility on guitar and backing vocals. Golden Grrrls’ first releases exemplified the lo-fi aesthetic they came from. Now long sold out, the two previous 7”s on Night School married the roughed-up recording dynamic with a boisterous, inventive melodic sense that has blossomed further on this, their self-titled debut LP.

For "Golden Grrrls" the band has written eleven perfect songs about life's realities dressed in three-part harmonies, heart-tugging changes and a playing style derived from punk and classic crash-pop enthusiasm. Like contemporaries Twerps and Sea Lions, they've joined a storied lineage of pop essentialists such as The Clean, The Bats and The Feelies -- bands who eschew complexity for concision and never sacrifice melody to mere primitivism. Each chord, beat and vocal line is perfectly placed, essential and simply has to exist as it is in its moment in time.

With all three members singing throughout, the harmonies and guitar lines interweaving, there’s a warmth in every song that adds to the poignant punch of the album as a whole. Opener ‘New Pop’ is a blast of breakneck spiked power pop while "Think Of The Ways" is a sweetly melancholic song that plays MacLean and Rodgers’ vocals against each other. "Take Your Time" and "Date It" are a punked-up indie pop gems, while album closer "We’ve Got…" is the catchiest 'anthem’ you’ll hear from a band that would be repulsed at the idea of writing anthems.

Tour Dates

March 20 - Le Voyeur, Olympia, WA w/Hysterics + Brilliant Colors
March 21 - Tractor, Seattle, WA ^
March 22 - The Cairo, Seattle, WA *
March 23 - Doug Fir, Portland, OR ^
March 26 - Rickshaw Stop, San Francisco, CA ^
March 29 - Echo, Los Angeles, CA ^
March 30 - Casbah, San Diego, CA ^
April 1 - Charlie’s, Boston, MA, w/ What Next?
April 2 - Flywheel, Easthampton, MA, w/ What Next?
April 3 - Glasslands, Brooklyn, NY, w/ Sea Lions and What Next?
April 4 - Vox Populi, Philidelphia, PA, w/ Sea Lions, Literature and Royal Shoals
April 5 - Comet Ping Pong, Washington DC, w/ Sea Lions and Lorelei
April 6 - The Bell Foundry, Baltimore, MD, Baltimore Popfest 2013 w/ Sea Lions, What Next?, Pet Milk, Kip (from The Pains Of Being Pure At Heart, Crimson Wave, Foul Swoops and more TBA)
April 8 - Cake Shop, NYC, NY w/ Sea Lions, Sapphire Mansions and Missing Documents

* w/ Brilliant Colors
^ w/ Veronica Falls and Brilliant Colors

Golden Grrrls - Past Tense

Yellowbirds is the moniker for the latest musical exploits of Sam Cohen—guitarist/songwriter/vocalist in the psychedelic collective Apollo Sunshine.  Cohen grew up in Houston, Texas, and while the Texas of his teens may have been home to Big Oil, Enron, the Bush family, and the drab grey Astros jerseys of the 90s, he prefers to think of it as the Texas of yore, home to: Roy Orbison, Buddy Holly, the Space Program, and rainbow orange Astros jerseys.  It stands to reason, then, that his current home of New York City must be the mythical Empire City: Rocky Mountains of architecture, epicenter of modern art, home to Charles Mingus and The Velvet Underground.  

It was with these timeless inspirations in mind that Cohen created Yellowbirds’ The Color. Double-speed auto-harp glissandos, glowing backwards pedal-steel, bubbling echo and fuzz guitars coalesce into a warm wall of sound.  As existential lyrical themes emerge, delivered nonchalantly over psyched-out aural landscapes, the picture emerges of a dust-blown, 4th dimensional Future West.  This is Cohen's quixotic world where "only the purist tones can be heard."

"Yellowbirds are here, and things are beginning to feel a little strange...but beautiful." 
- SHOWERED &amp; BLUE-BLAZERED

"Yellowbirds create sunny, psychedelic folk. Warm and inviting." 
- UNHOLY RHYTHMS


The Rest Of My Life

Crystal Fighters's third album 'Everything Is My Family' is out NOW.

Listen to the entire album on Spotify ▶ http://found.ee/EIMFspotify
Get 'Everything Is My Family' on iTunes now ▶ http://found.ee/eimfdigital
European Tour on sale now ▶ http://smarturl.it/CrystalFightersTour

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Wave

Buy on iTunes 

Doe Paoro "New Lows"

Pre-order the new album 'It Is What It Is', released 3 April on Brainfeeder: https://thundercat.lnk.to/it-is-what-it-isSo

Thundercat - Oh Sheit It's X

Birthmarks

With An Ax



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Tired Hearts EP (June 4th, 2013)
Now Available on iTunes bit.ly/187357z
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Tired Hearts Track Listing:
1. Angeline
2. How Can You Trust A Feeling
3. Permanent Night
4. Over You Again
5. Without Your Love

Produced, Mixed, Engineered by Bryce Goggin at Trout Studios in Park Slope, Brooklyn, NY
www.troutrecording.com
Assistant Engineer: Adam Sachs
Mastered by Joe Lambert at Joe Lambert Mastering
Cover Art by Cyrus Blais

