Mac DeMarco, “Salad Days” Paolo Nutini, “Coming Up Easy” Max Frost, “White Lies” Hozier, “From Eden” The Sudden Death of Stars, “Inside Out” Bahamas, “Caught Me Thinking”
Vetiver
California folk-rockers whose sound is heavily influenced by late-’60s/early-’70s hippie-folk troubadours. “Can’t You Tell” “More of This” “Another Reason to Go”
The Record Collector
Last Lynx
Swedish electro-pop with a California glaze. Laid back bedroom music that sounds best around dusk. “Killing Switch” “Alaska”
Mashup Monday | Beatles + Pharrell
Ch. 2 Rusted Wagon
While terrorists didn’t scare me much, the thought of freshman year did. On a muggy Friday morning, with the nation still stunned, I packed up my things and prepared to write the next chapter of my life. I had crammed all of my worldly possessions into the back end of our ‘88 Oldsmobile Custom Cruiser…
Ch. 1 The Empty Sky
“Turn on the TV… the world’s gone crazy.” These were the first words I heard three days before I started college. The voice on the other end of the phone was my mother’s. A moment ago, I was floating on my waterbed, still dreaming between the summer sheets. “Jeez, Mom. What are you waking me…
Thievery Corp, “Lebanese Blonde”
The girl who sings is such a hipster. You’ll see.
Temples
British neo-psychedelic band mixes trippy baroque pop experimentation and classic Beatles-y craftsmanship. Debut album, Sun Structures, out today – sounds like it floated here through space from four decades behind us. “Colours to Life” “Move With the Season” “The Guesser”
Hipflix, Winter 2014
Four recent Netflix picks you might not have seen… Crystal Fairy A self-absorbed young American traveling in Chile plans a journey with his pals to find a legendary hallucinogenic cactus. But when he invites the free-spirited Crystal Fairy along, they find themselves locked in a battle of wills. Drinking Buddies Workmates at a small Chicago…