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The Umbrellas are one of the most exciting bands to come from the indiepop underground in ages. Bursting out of the SF Bay Area's fertile indie scene, The Umbrellas come correct with a sound that fits snugly into a long line of classic pop, from The Byrds to Orange Juice, The Pastels, Comet Gain, Veronica Falls and Belle & Sebastian, along with a noticeable garage-pop/Paisley Underground flavor that is a hallmark of San Francisco's best bands. Their self-titled 2021 debut album dazzled with a dozen perfect pop tunes, charming the indiepop faithful but also winning fans outside the scene, leading to sold-out tours with bands as disparate as Ceremony and Destroy Boys.

Now The Umbrellas are back with "Write It In The Sky," an instant-classic that simply demanded to be pressed onto a 7" single. Clocking in at just under 3 minutes, "Write It In The Sky" is a thrilling pop rush full of fuzz, melody and excitement that will sit easily next to singles by the likes of Talulah Gosh, Shop Assistants, The Pastels and The Pains of Being Pure At Heart. It's really that good - a sure thing to enter the canon of perennial indiepop floor-fillers. On the b-side we have the heavier "I'll Never Understand," a slow, trippy song with a slightly-delic sound that builds to a noisy crescendo. The band really crushes this one on stage, and it's fast becoming a live favorite. Taken together that point to a mighty bright future for The Umbrellas, and we can't wait to hear what's next!

Write It In The Sky

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The Umbrellas - Write It In The Sky

Joe Stevens' Peel Dream Magazine project has dazzled savvy listeners for the last several years with its tuneful yet hypnotic synthesis of post-punk, shoegaze, 60s pop and motorik Krautrocky grooves. Their most recent salvo of the album "Agitprop Alterna" and companion EP "Moral Panics" was one of the few bright spots of a pandemic-wracked 2021.

Now Joe is back with a more conceptual work with "Pad," drawing on his own journey in and out of Peel Dream, his experiences with soundtrack scoring, and his abiding love of Brian Wilson, Harry Nilsson and The High Llamas. "Pad" draws on influences as from baroque pop to bossa nova, country and mid-century orchestral, from Burt Bacharach-era 60s pop to first wave homemade post-punk. It's a unique sound that is at once relaxing and engaging and makes a most satisfying next step in the Peel Dream Magazine trajectory.

Peel Dream Magazine - Pictionary

Before The Reds, Pinks & Purples started getting noticed by a larger audience, a 4 song 7” EP called "I Should Have Helped You" snuck out on Swedish experimental label I Dischi Del Barone, disappeared quickly, and is now trading for insane prices on Discogs. Recorded around the same time as the material that ended up on the buzzed-about LP "Uncommon Weather," it contains some of the best examples of Donaldson’s melancholy but wry take on indie pop. "They Only Wanted Your Soul" adds six more tracks to make it a mini-LP length grab bag of hits. It has songs about record shopping, religion, worker’s rights, dysfunctional holidays, and of course heartbreak sung over a maze of shimmering fuzzy guitars and drum machine beats. This expanded reissue re-presents an essential chapter of the Reds, Pinks & Purples story and as such is crucial listening.

They Only Wanted Your Soul

The Reds, Pinks & Purples - Saw You at the Record Shop Today

The Reds, Pinks & Purples - Keep Your Secrets Close

The Reds, Pinks & Purples - I Should Have Helped You

A song about hope and joy overcoming all - especially in times of an apocalypse. Watch vid or stream on other platforms here: https://lab-music.lnk.to/Someone_InYourArms

Lyrics:

Did I hear you say you ride the wind?
Everybody finds a way to forget
We’re killing time until the party ends
If there was an answer there, i’d find it
 
In your arms
I don’t mind
In your arms
I’ll survive

So we stay up late to greet the night
In the heavy haze my mind is untied
And for a minute all the world is clear
Mother future sways before me, right here

In your arms
I don’t mind
In your arms
I’ll survive

In Your Arms

After spending nearly two decades establishing herself across New York and Los Angeles independent music circles, Frankie Rose returns with a fresh form, aesthetic, and purpose embodied in her new album "Love As Projection." Celebrated by countless critical and cultural outlets over the years for her expansive approach to songwriting, lush atmospherics, and transcendent vocal melodies and harmonies, "Love As Projection" is a reintroduction of her established style through the new lens of contemporary electronic pop. Featuring beautiful, ethereal songs like lead-off single "Anything," "Sixteen Ways" and "Come Back," this album is more than a rebirth, a refinement, a resurgence – it's a culmination of influence, a newly-defined scope using the tools at her disposal, and the most personal and accessible collection of art-pop that Frankie has delivered yet.

Love As Projection

Frankie Rose - Anything

The Laughing Chimes is a musical project formed by teenage brothers Evan and Quinn Seurkamp based out of southeast Ohio. Living in a small, crumbling coal town on the brink of obscurity, Evan and Quinn wanted to bring to light some of their feelings and experiences from their time here. The project draws inspiration from American and British jangle pop from the 80s and 90s; establishing songs that blend enduring sounds with new melodies. The duo's 2020 album "In This Town" drew attention worldwide for its brilliantly timeless songs that could just as easily originated in Athens, GA or Dunedin, NZ as eastern Ohio.
 
The overwhelmingly positive reception of "In This Town" inspired the brothers to work on their next set of tunes. Evan wrote "Laurel Heights" upon seeing a sign in West Virginia with those words and from there the idea of an EP started to take shape.  More songs were written (some were discarded) and finally the brothers settled on the 6 tracks that comprise the "Zoo Avenue EP," including the first song written by Quinn.

From the deliciously paisley-tinged opener "Ice Cream Skies" through future anthem "Laurel Heights," the pastoral "Cats Go Car Watching" and the gorgeously melodic jangle of "Zoo Avenue" we can hear that Evan and Quinn have crafted a terrifically assured follow-up to "In This Town," one that sharpens their sound and broadens their musical palette while retaining all of the considerable charm of their debut. They're already working on their next record and have recently expanded to a trio and started playing live shows, so we're beyond excited to see where they go next.

The Laughing Chimes

Zoo Avenue EP

The Laughing Chimes - Ice Cream Skies

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Daniel Johnston - Walking The Cow (Julsy cover)

From the album ‘The Bearer Of Bad News’ (2015) • Pay what you want http://tndr.lv/andyshauf

When will I ever be safe from myself if the danger all lies between Heaven and Hell? When I close my eyes I’m not falling asleep, I am opening drawers, I am sifting through papers. Please stay a while, I’m not falling asleep.

Meticulously written over four years and recorded over one in a makeshift studio set up in his parent’s basement, Shauf, whose delivery at times reminds of Elliott Smith or Paul Simon, plays nearly every instrument on The Bearer of Bad News. The album was crafted on his grandfather’s timeworn guitar and heavily influenced by the aforementioned—and newly learned—clarinet, which was a Christmas gift from family. In spite of his modest recording set-up, Shauf imbued The Bearer of Bad News with an enduring warmth and redolence that lingers long after the album ends.

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Andy Shauf - Covered In Dust

A virtual stage for finding love in a pixel maze of mystery

I can see your face, but don’t know your name
Pixels made of mystery
When I see your eyes, did a spark ignite?
My heart’s ablaze in this pixel maze
But it’s a winters day, it’s so cold and grey
I’m trying to read between the lines
But filters make it like a summers day
And where dreams are made
A virtual space where hearts entwine
But distance breaks it

And the whole scene chills my bones and feeds on emotional energy
And we navigate as we search the sea of love until the current leads to me

A virtual stage for finding love in a pixel maze of mystery

In this virtual space, you take my breath away
I feel the same as yesterday
Lost in bits and bytes, then you caught my eye
Will you swipe away, so we’ll never meet?
Like it’s a winters day, it’s so cold and grey
I’m trying to read between the lines
But filters make it like a summers day
And where dreams are made
A virtual space where hearts entwine
But distance breaks it

And the whole scene chills my bones and feeds on emotional energy
And we navigate as we search the sea of love until the current leads to me
A virtual stage for finding love

Pixel Maze

Love and Distance

Everyone Knows Everyone

The Helio Sequence - Everyone Knows Everyone

A sweet song off our new album Kept recently featured on NPR's All Songs Considered

http://www.npr.org/sections/allsongs/2015/10/21/449974205/new-music-from-beach-house-chairlift-cmj-discoveries-and-more

You can listen to the whole album here: www.stolenjars.bandcamp.com/
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Music written by Cody Fitzgerald
Lyrics written by Magdalena Bermudez and Cody Fitzgerald
Vocal parts written by Magdalena Bermudez, Molly Grund and Cody Fitzgerald

Magdalena Bermudez - Vocals
Molly Grund - Vocals
Cody Fitzgerald - Guitar, Drums, Percussion, Keys, Organ

Mixed by Eli Crews at Ham Radio Hobby Room, Brooklyn NY
Mastered by Jeff Lipton at Peerless Mastering, Boston, MA
Assistant Mastering Engineer: Maria Rice

Wreaths Rakes

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Artist: Ashley Shadow
Album: Ashley Shadow 
Label: felte
Release Date: April 15, 2016 

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Ashley Shadow

Tired 

Ashley Shadow - Tired

Drens
Surf punk from Dortmund, Germany, Europe
All info here: www.drens.de
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Produced by Drens & Steffen Israel at Tonbrauerei, Berlin
Recorded by Matthias 'Thies' Neu at Tonbrauerei, Berlin
Mixed by Philipp 'Philsen' Hoppen at Waldstudios, Berlin
Mastered by Robin Schmidt at 24-96 Mastering, Karlsruhe

Booking: julian@kkt.berlin
Management: denis@teamgood.de

Pet Peeves EP

I Can Barely See

New single from Les Big Byrd out now, taken from the new EP Roofied Angels out June 26. Pre-order at www.PNKSLM.com/store

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Les Big Byrd - "Roofied Angels"

Slumberland began operations in 1989, inspired by such musical happenings as C-86, early Creation, Sarah, Postcard, and the UK post-punk indie label scene. Since then we've covered a lot of territory, from punk to lofi noise to shoegaze and of course pop, releasing records from bands like The Aislers Set, Boyracer, Stereolab, Rocketship, Lorelei, The Ropers, The Saturday People and Black Tambourine.

By the mid 2000s we were starting to see a resurgence of interest in guitar pop and the start of the ongoing vinyl revival: the perfect environment for Slumberland! We launched into our latest phase of activity with as string of classic releases from The Pains of Being Pure At Heart, Crystal Stilts, Frankie Rose, Veronica Falls, Allo Darlin', Joanna Gruesome and so many more.

2018 is our twenty-ninth year we are still going strong, ploughing our own furrow and bringing you unique, genre-defining (and genre-defying!) releases from bands like Smokescreens, Tony Molina, Papercuts, Business of Dreams, Peel Dream Magazine, D.A. Stern, The Spook School, Frankie Rose, Young Guv, Terry Malts and many, many more. As always, we operate entirely outside of the echo chamber of trends, fashion and phoney hipness. Slumberland bands are independent in the best way possible -- making music devoid of bullshit and true to their own voices, regardless of current popular taste.

The Reds, Pinks & Purples - Saw You at the Record Shop Today

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